Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Review

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out Borat Subsequent Moviefilm will release this Friday, October 23 on Amazon Prime Video. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Fairly quickly, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm -- aka Borat 2 aka Borat: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan -- addresses the very nice elephant in the room by figuring out how comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is going to pull off a majority of his stunts now that the Borat character is a veritable, and recognizable, pop-culture icon. The easy answer is, Borat, in-film, is a celebrity in the States and since he's on a secret mission, he'll have to wear disguises. But Borat 2's better solution to this issue is giving Cohen a capable, captivating co-star in the form of Maria Bakalova, who plays Tutar, Borat's teen daughter. With Bakalova's awesome addition and fearless presence, Cohen has found a true on-screen partner in crime. And while this Borat sequel may, at times, lack some of the sinister sting of the original, it can surely boast Bakalova as its breakout star. The question remains though: Even with Bakalova's boisterous energy and commitment, how does Borat work in 2020? Satirically, the film tackles many of the things the original did 14 years ago -- from racism to sexism to just plain pigheaded ignorance -- and we know, firsthand, that exposing liars and lechers and hate-mongers and QAnon pushers doesn't really do all that much. Despite this film containing moments with Vice President Mike Pence and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani (read about his questionable Borat encounter here), as well as those who think the Democrats created the coronavirus, there's no "gotcha" moment here. We're at a terrifying time in history where that no longer exists. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/01/borat-2-official-trailer"] Regardless, Borat 2 is ultimately a more rewarding experience than the first film because the story is better. Whereas the first film used Borat's crazed obsession with Pamela Anderson as a thread to connect cringe-worthy "cultural" interviews and escapades, this sequel has a heart to it and feels, overall, more like a movie with occasional pranks, punks, and anxiety-amplifying situations. Basically, it's the tale of Borat and Tutar and their burgeoning relationship (which flies in the face of Borat's "Kazakh" belief that women are livestock), and then everyone else gets roped into their orbit and are used to tell that story. So, bottom line, way more folks are Bowfinger'd into an actual movie here than the first one, which shifts the overall focus in a good way. It's different. It's an evolution. And it's still funny as hell. Having been sentenced to a life of hard labor in a Gulag due to shaming Kazakhstan in 2006 (while also becoming a hit in America), Borat is released from his shackles so he can head back to the U.S. on a mission to win Trump's favor - by giving a celebrity monkey to VP Pence. It's not long though before the objective shifts to Borat giving away Tutar to Pence as a child bride and much of the film involves Tutar, who's treated like a house pet most of the time, experiencing Western culture as she "prepares" herself to be the perfect gift (makeover, tan, cosmetic surgery, etc). An argument can be made that no one went above and beyond more, as co-star, than Ken Davitian, who played producer Azamat in the first film, and literally ran around a hotel with Cohen while they were both whole-ass naked, but Bakalova is able to be hilarious while also carrying some of the cringey weight. As Tutar, she not only participates in the movie's most memorable, and jaw-dropping, moments but she's also allowed to exist on her own and cause her own brand of calamity with unsuspecting members of the public. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/20/borat-2-official-pregnancy-center-clip"] Again, nothing here is going to tarnish any one politician's reputation more than they've already done so in their own right, but the third act, essentially the final half-hour, is a masterstroke. Not only does Cohen need to quickly incorporate the pandemic into the running story, with the initial shutdowns and quarantining that happened at the end of March (which he does by bringing us into the home of Jim and Jerry, who think Hilary Clinton drinks the adrenal secretions of tortured children), but he has to also funnel that into the ultimate endgame, which is a mesmerizingly stunning and vomitous "final battle" with Giuliani -- which, is by far, the best "using a real person as a third actor in a three-person scene they don't know they're a part of" in the film. There are a few times -- and this just comes with the territory this many years later -- where you wonder if the people Cohen is interacting with are truly fooled or just going along with "the bit," but that usually happens during scenes that aren't meant to induce gasps or pearl-clutching. Borat 2, even switching things up on the fly due to a pandemic, is still a savagely great, and gross, time. 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