Borat 2!

[killface]

Just halfway into this. The debutante dance was a riot.

 

[Filmfan93]

As a Bulgarian myself, I was shocked to find out his daughter is played by a Bulgarian actress and actually speaks Bulgarian throughout the film, too

 

[Prison Mike]

I thought it was hit or miss. There were some funny moments but it didn’t land as well as the first.

Agreed. It was funny but not as much as the first. There were times where I was laughing like crazy and other times where I was silent.

 

[Iceman]

Not gonna lie... I laughed.

I love the title.

I'm not expecting the greatness like the original, but I'm gonna watch this for sure.

Yeah, the title is amazing haha.

 

[Albright]

What Rudy Giuliani did there should be enough to robb him of every influential position he still has - he was about to have sex with an underaged girl and was aware of it all the time.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Not seen this yet but loving the controversy it’s already causing

 

[Neil McCauley]

Is the movie any good?

 

[samsnee]

If you liked the first, you should like this one.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Not as good as the first, but I still enjoyed it. Fortunately it's not one of those sad, pathetic reclaim past success movies that fail to recapture the magic of the first. There's a point to it, and Borat has an arc. I laughed a lot.

 

[Detective Conan]

What Rudy Giuliani did there should be enough to robb him of every influential position he still has - he was about to have sex with an underaged girl and was aware of it all the time.

I’m no fan of Rudy, but do we actually know for sure he knew she was underage at the time?

Seems to me he assumed she was an adult, which she is(she’s 24) and only stopped when he was interrupted by Cohen(in-character as Borat) telling him to stop and that “she’s fifteen.”

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[chamber-music]

Rudy trying to sleep with a woman who isn't his cousin.

 

[The Shape]

Watched this last night. Plenty of funny bits, but the Borat schtick has definitely gotten a little stale and I wasn't a fan of how the entire film was essentially an anti-Trump political ad.

Part of the issue for me, I think, was watching a film like this at home with my wife. It could never rival the experience of watching the original Borat in a packed theater with a group of friends, surrounded by people laughing hysterically at all the crazy/shocking/hilarious moments. That was a great time. That naked hotel fight had people screaming.

 

[samsnee]

I wonder how the production gets permission to use people’s images without a consent form. And honestly don’t they wonder why cameras are filming?

 

[kvz5]

I wonder how the production gets permission to use people’s images without a consent form. And honestly don’t they wonder why cameras are filming?

I’m assuming they get asked after and the ones that said no are the ones that are blurred out?

 

[GwensNeckBrace]

I thought it was hilarious, though I didn't really like that it was as scripted as it was. There was definitely much more script in this, compared to the first one.

 

[samsnee]

I’m assuming they get asked after and the ones that said no are the ones that are blurred out?

That’s what I thought but I highly doubt Rudy agreed to this.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I think they get signed beforehand. Obviously if it was after the interview, they probably never would.

 

[Albright]

Well if Rudy knew the whole time, what this was, one has to wonder, why he agreed to be showed that way.
Also his reaction to it was also very poor and embarrassing

 

[DarkKnight88]

How'd they get people to be in the Borat movie?

 

[KaijuDude1992]

The first movie was way funnier IMO. I enjoyed this, but there were long stretches were I didn't really laugh at all and the whole thing did feel pretty stale. The scenes with Sacha and the hot daughter were the best scenes in the movie and I honestly didn't care much for the political angle.

That stuff just felt super scripted to me and took me out of the movie most of the time. Also, Ken Davitan was sorely missed in this sequel. Him and Sacha just worked amazingly well together in that first movie.

 

[killface]

How'd they get people to be in the Borat movie?

Exactly. Always, read what you sign; even the fine print because that's actually the most important part.

 

[henzINNIT]

This was alright, a good time for fans of Cohen's work, but yeah not his best. It was very apparent that the character was too famous to really expose people like the first did. Maria Bakalova was fantastic and filled that role very well but overall the film had less moments of quiet humanity/inhumanity which the first film did so well.

I didn't mind the obvious political targeting this time around considering the world we're in, but again the 'gotchas' weren't as revealing as they could have been. Crashing the Pence event is a funny and ballsy stunt, a funny story for sure, but basically it amounted to a brief disruption and swift exit. Even Guliani, while clearly an old horn-dog, wasn't really skewered as much as I was expecting. I think 'Who Is America' did better in this regard and was a superior effort from Cohen.

Still worth a watch though. Had a few good laughs in it for sure. The sheer insanity of Borat's jew costume broke me.

 

[chamber-music]

Cohen has been doing Borat, Bruno and Ali G since the nineties. It isn't too surprising people are finding the characters a little stale.

Borat is Cohen's oldest character. He first started doing a prototype version of the character on British TV back in the mid nineties.

 

[Drizzle]

I thought it was hilarious, though I didn't really like that it was as scripted as it was. There was definitely much more script in this, compared to the first one.

I didn't think it was nearly as funny because it was so scripted. The first one was pretty much 90% unscripted apart from the Kazakhstan scenes, a few of the scenes between Borat and his producer (who I was actually upset wasn't in this one) and the Pam Anderson scene. This one not only had all the scenes with his daughter taking up a good deal of the movie but I'm also fairly certain that the two rednecks who he quarantines with were actors. They had to be. Who else would allow a stranger, let alone a foreign stranger, and a camera crew into their home during a pandemic?

Not only that, but the constant costume changes made it feel like something else entirely. Less like a Borat movie and more like your run of the mill Sacha Baron Cohen movie, if that makes sense. I understand why it had to be done, since I even said 14 years ago that he couldn't make another one because everyone knows who Borat is now.

All in all it still had its moments.