Joe Peltzer brings us his Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review ahead of the show airing on Amazon Prime tomorrow.
Directed by Jason Woliner
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern
Produced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson and Anthony Hines
Executive Produced by Buddy Enright, Nicholas Hatton, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Stuart Miller Starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Irina Nowak
It is incredibly rare that a sequel can live up to the hype and success of its predecessor, let alone surpass it.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is one of those films, taking the memorable gimmicks from the first film, building on them, and taking the social commentary to an effectively high level.
After Borat’s previous outing to America, his home country of Kazakhstan has seen great humiliation, leading to the titular character being banished to manual labor until the Premier sends him back to America with a vital task to get in the United States’ good graces.
As one can expect, crazy hijinks ensue as Borat encounters a very different America than his previous visit.
What you’ll find with this fantastic film is the same line-crossing, same vulgarity, and same ridiculousness associated with the character amplified by the addition of Borat’s daughter.
There was no shortage of “oh my God” statements escaping my mouth, but the beauty is in Sacha Baron Cohen’s ability to utilize the shock value moments to drive at a deeper statement about societal issues.
Dare I say that Cohen’s latest is a brilliant piece of artistic narrative that exposes the hypocrisy, delirium, and overall fragility of the current climate within not only the U.S., but the world as a whole.
For one of the first times ever, I cannot identify a single thing that I didn’t enjoy in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
There is never a dull moment, nor a sense of rehashing what made 2006’s Borat such an original film.
The addition of “Irina Nowak” (which reportedly may be a fake name for a Bulgarian actress named Maria Bakalova) allowed for further development of Cohen’s character and a surprisingly intimate subplot that takes the film to the next level.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is, in a word, phenomenal. Cohen has certainly outdone himself.
Watch it starting this Friday on Amazon Prime Video.
To celebrate the launch of the movie a giant Borat will be floating down the River Thames in London from 2 pm today.
The giant inflatable will start at Tower Bridge before travelling down to the London Eye and back again.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review by Joe Peltzer of Guyatthemovies.com
Our Rating
Summary
Never a dull moment and a glaring look at our world today where this movie makes the whole political world in which we inhabitate feel like a real-life comedy.
