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"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of
Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," available on Amazon Prime from
Friday, sees Baron Cohen back in character as racist, sexist
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev who once again travels to
America.
This time, the plot revolves around his attempts to marry off
his 15 year-old daughter to Vice President Mike Pence or,
failing that, Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York now
best known as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer.
"Sequels don't come more triumphant, or well-timed, than this,"
said the Daily Beast in its review on Wednesday.
Variety said the film delivers a "consistent, coherent
feature-length narrative, punctuated with outrageous,
unpredictable set pieces."
Few of the film's pranks were revealed ahead of the release, but
reviewers said they include Cohen gate-crashing a political
conference dressed as Trump, a coronavirus quarantine stay with
supporters of QAnon conspiracy theories, and visits to an
abortion clinic and a debutante ball.
"My aim here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism," Cohen
told the New York Times last weekend in his only major print
interview around the film. "The aim is to make people laugh, but
we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism."
Cohen said he wanted the movie released before the Nov. 3
election because "we wanted it to be a reminder to women of who
they're voting for — or who they're not voting for."
While most of the reviews were positive, some found the movie
tasteless.
"This joke isn't funny anymore," the Hollywood Reporter said,
adding that "the Trump years make him (Borat) painfully
redundant."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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