164. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: movie review

 

 

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

Cert 15

120 mins

BBFC advice: Contains strong sex references, crude humour, discrimination, very strong language

How the heck do politicians get away with so much scandal nowadays?

Presidents and Prime Ministers have sex lives which would make brothel madames blush and walk away without a stain... on their characters.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm literally bangs former New York Mayor and Donald Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani to rights - exposing him as a shameless old pervert.

And yet, despite obvious evidence to the contrary, he refutes any impropriety during that infamous bedroom scene in Jason Woliner's Borat Subsequent MovieFilm.

This satire, starring Sacha Baron Cohen takes a hard pop at American politics and almost literally climaxes on Giuliani's bed.

Once again Baron Cohen plays Borat, the politically incorrect journalist from Kazakhstan, which is portrayed as a country of extreme backwardness.

This is particularly true of its attitudes towards women who have no rights and are even kept in cages.

Inevitably, he manages to convince real-life Americans that this made-up culture is real and, in most cases even go along with it.

These deliberately engineered cultural misunderstandings are so over-the-top that it is inevitable that some will tickle the funny bone while others missed by a mile.

They are tested out by Borat's treatment of his daughter (Maria Bakalova) who he is determined to gift to a senior American official.

It could be argued that Bakalova is the surprise star of the film. Everyone knows about Borat's style but she grew into the movie so well that she has earned an Oscar nomination.

Yes, the Subsequent MovieFilm will shock, frustrate and prompt big belly laughs but I couldn't help thinking that Baron Cohen is just a little bit too smug and that there surely cannot be another movie in this character.

But bravo for nailing the ghastly Giuliani.

PS I know the film came out last year but, without cinema being open, it is so hard to track releases. I thought I ought to try to watch all Oscar nominees.

Reasons to watch: That Rudy Giuliani moment

Reasons to avoid: The bad taste wears thin

Laughs: Three 

Jumps: None

Vomit: None

Nudity: Drawings

Overall rating: 7/10

Did you know? Borat 2 set a new Guinness World Record for the longest title of any Oscar-nominated film in Academy history. Fully written, it is Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan which has an impressive 110 characters.

The final word. Maria Bakalova: "I saw everything that you saw. If you saw the movie, that’s our message. We want everybody to see the movie and judge for themselves…"

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