Borat Subsequent MovieFilm Review

The new Sacha Baron Cohen film, “Borat Subsequent MovieFilm”, can only be described as a comedic gold mine. The new adventures of Kazakhstani’s hilarious, fearless reporter Borat Sagdiyev will have you spitting out food and spilling your drink out of your nose from laughing so hard.

If I had to describe this film in one word it would have to be “risque” and in some parts just plain out risky. The film is filled with jokes that cross every moral line out there and redefine investigative journalism in the most absurd and hilarious way possible. Even the jokes and skits that do not land, and leave the audience cringing covering their face with their hands still fit the outlandish persona of Borat and makes you want to peak through your fingers to see what happens next.

The story begins with Borat being released from prison after 14 years for crimes that he had committed in his previous film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of American to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Borat was blamed for his country’s financial and political downfall, and was given a chance to redeem himself by going back to the United States on a special investigative mission. Without giving too much away it involves, a prized monkey and offering his own daughter, Tutar, to Mike Pence as a gift to mend the bridge between Kazakhstan and the United States. Tutar has lived in captivity her whole life and to put it nicely is very wild and homely (The film plays on the idea that that is how Melania was born and raised as well). With a make over and some potential plastic surgery, Tutar gets transformed and her and her father set out to find Mike Pence, and get introduced to some interesting characters along the way. From a UPS worker to Rudy Giuliani the film documents a wide variety of Americans during the chaotic year of 2020.

Director, Jason Woliner, does a fantastic job at showing Borat as the film’s hero. The most ironic and arguably the most funny part of the movie is making Borat out to be a depraved, narcissistic idiot whose flaws and views mirror his clueless targets’ throughout the film so closely that they don’t realize they’re being made fun of.

Just like the first movie, this Borat film is full of provocative, degrading, offensive, and filthy humor. If you are looking for a comedic safe movie this is not the film for you. Throughout the entirety of the film I was either laughing my ass off or slipping into depression because it made me more aware of what a shit hole country America truly has become. Overall, it was exactly what I expected out of a Borat film, and is definitely a movie I would watch again.