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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: Borat and Daughter Team Up to Smash the Patriarchy
When Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan hit in 2006, it was a cultural phenomenon. Everyone had a Borat impression in their back pocket, and audiences were astounded at how star and co-writer Sacha Baron Cohen even pulled off such an audacious quasi-documentary where he would fool Americans with his foreigner-rube schtick. The Borat character had been part of Cohen’s Da Ali G Show, but he was still under-the-radar enough to walk amongst Americans unremarked. 14 years later and Borat is back in an America that’s even more disturbing than the one he traveled before. With his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova) in tow, Jason Woliner’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan doesn’t quite recapture the magic of the original, but it also has a sharper target as Cohen repeatedly goes after American misogyny by comparing it to his comically dark fictions about how Kazak women should be treated. When Subsequent Moviefilm works, it gets you right back to the place where you’re crying from laughter and shocked at how Cohen and his crew pulled off such daring social stunts.
WATCH GUIDE Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Picking up fourteen years after the events of the first movie, Borat (Cohen) was an international success, but because his movie made Kazakhstan look foolish, he was sentenced to the gulag. However, the rise of Donald Trump and his affection for strongmen provides an opportunity for the Kazak regime, and they want to use Borat as their messenger. His task is to deliver Kazakhstan’s greatest celebrity, Johnny the Monkey, as a gift to Mike Pence, but when he arrives in America and opens Johnny’s crate, Borat is surprised to find his teenage daughter Tutar instead. He decides she’ll be the gift, and Tutar is ecstatic because she dreams of living in a golden cage like her fairy tale hero, Melania Trump. The pair set off across America getting in various misadventures along the way.
