Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Director: Jason Woliner
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova
Genre: Niice
My enjoyment of Sacha Baron Cohen’s work has nothing to do with us sharing a surname or our similarly generous amounts of body hair. I am amused by him because in everything he does he tiptoes along the border of stupid, witty, absurd, hilarious, politically woke, politically incorrect and silly. It’s a tough ask and one he doesn’t always pull off. But that’s okay. He’s trying to shine mirrors and shine lights and like all good comedians the message is as important as the way it’s delivered.
In Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the original title which makes it much easier for me to reach my 250-word limit, Cohen (not me) is once again in the USA. The storyline is irrelevant. The movie is essentially a series of skits and pranks aimed at easy-target right-wing Trump-supporting Americans in an effort to demonstrate their ignorance.
Some of it works, some of it doesn’t. Some of the Americans fall for the Borat shtick and so the film ultimately is a triumph of selective editing. That’s not to take away from some genuinely funny and frightening moments and the sheer cringe value of seeing Rudy Giuliani in action, for want of a better euphemism.
If you were a fan of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) and like your movie reviews to reach their word limits then you will really
Rating: үш жұлдыз
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