Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) Review

So last month a trailer came out of nowhere for Borat 2 and would be released on Amazon Prime and for fans of the first film that came out 14 years ago this was something to look forward to and now it is here with us and I have just watched it and here is my review for the film. The premise of the film sees Borat return to The United States to gain favour with Donald Trump for his home country of Kazakhstan. 

Main Character

In my opinion Sacha Baron Cohen's iconic role is that of Borat so seeing him return to the role all these years later is fantastic, he still has it and even after all these years he still is as outrageous as he was back then. It is nice to see that he can give a strong dramatic performance in Trial Of The Chicago 7 and then not long after switch it up and play this really funny off the wall character. Some of the things that come out of his mouth in this film are crazy and will make you laugh. 

Supporting Characters

Maria Bakalova is a new actress to me and she plays Borat's daughter in this film and she really shines here, she even manages to go punch for punch with Cohen in terms of outrageousness and craziness. This is an actress that will probably get more work after this and it will be great to see just where her acting career goes from here. Now this film is unique as pretty much everybody else are real people that weren't exactly sure they were in a movie and it mostly works as the reactions are genuine and it is funny throughout. 

Story 

The story isn't the most important part of a film like this but I have to talk about it. There is actually more depth to this plot, the relationship between Borat and his daughter is quite sweet and is well done and just the stuff to do with politics is crazy and highly entertaining. But there were some elements of the plot that didn't work for me, there are just some unnecessary parts of the film that are there just to set up a specific joke which didn't work for me. Also there is a twist at the end of the film and even for a film as controversial as this one I am not sure now was an appropriate time for it and it felt a bit tasteless.

Script

Now let's face it a film like this the most important thing is whether it is funny and the answer is yes it is funny, but not really funny. There are some really funny bits here, some of the things that are said are just really funny and really fit the tone of this film. Also the little bit of heart added here is nice to see. But there are some jokes that do fall flat, it is mostly the ones involving the less mad storylines, and when the other person to Borat doesn't really play along. 

Style 

This film will go down as one of the mad styles ever, so basically Sasha Baron Cohen went around as Borat without people knowing they were being filmed. Obviously the now well known scenes with the politicians have been controversial but really feel unique and show the awfulness of politics, also this film does a great job of just insulting everybody. Though more then the first film, it feels like this is a really strong 1 hour special that had to force an extra 30 mins in order to qualify as a film which makes some parts of the film to feel much less funny. 

Overall

Overall, this is a funny film, not as good as the first film but a worthy sequel. Now even though I am going to give this a positive score, I must say that you have to know what you are getting into and I would say fans of the first film are really the ones who will enjoy this film and maybe avoid if you aren't. 

Rating - 7/10