![]() Filming began in late 2019, and much of the movie seems to have been shot early this year, including a scene filmed at the CPAC conference in February where Baron Cohen interrupts a speech by Mike Pence while in character as Borat dressed as Donald Trump, an event that made the news at the time, but it wasn't clear then that it was Baron Cohen back to his old tricks. ![]() But, happily, it is mostly successful on its own terms as a piece of anti-Trump comedy.Īs a movie, Borat 2 - which has a number of different subtitles, most prominently Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - can't be separated from the circumstances of its creation, at least not yet, because the circumstances are so extreme. ![]() This Borat's success as a movie is almost secondary to the fact that it got made at all. The sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous 2006 satire Borat was made in spite of the fame of the character and its creator, the pandemic, 15 years of cultural and political change, and legal challenges, including potentially one from a certain Nosferatu-faced attorney for President Trump who's featured in the movie and comes off even worse than he usually does. I've watched Borat Subsequent Moviefilm once and will probably watch it again, and I still can't believe it exists.
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