"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm": Scripted Sequences Hamper Its Weightier Message About Modern Day America
"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm": Movie Review
Written By Alex Greenbaum
While far from a comedic failure, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" is an unimaginative, disjointed, and meandering affair that appears to be more of a call to action disguised as a film, rather than an unbiased social commentary. Without director (and legend) Larry Charles at the helm, there's a unique comedic presence missing, resulting in heavily scripted sequences eventually hampering its intriguing analysis of modern day America.
The fictional Kazakh tv reporter, Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) returns to the United States, looking to sell his daughter (Maria Bakalova) to a power-hungry American.
A hilarious fertility dance, a cringe-inducing gun rally, and a shocking Rudy Guliani sequence is a romp but its entertaining material quickly thins out, never quite generating those consistent laughs we've come to expect from Cohen. While newcomer Maria Bakalova is a hysterical addition and Cohen's convincing transformations still itch that juvenile funny bone, a staleness soon overwhelms and unavoidably overtakes its weightier message.
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