Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Definitivamente aprecio la media docena de chistes y escenas realmente divertidas e imaginativas, pero por lo demás es muy floja, especialmente si la comparamos con la primera gran Borat. Desafortunadamente, los enfrentamientos con los estadounidenses "desprevenidos" (que sorprendentemente esta vez se resignan y disfrutan de todo) son flojos, en algunos momentos da la impresión de una puesta en escena artificial, y especialmente la necesidad desesperada de meterlos en una trama dirigida, convulsiva y desafortunadamente disfuncional por debajo del promedio sobre la relación entre padre e hija. Mientras Cohen provoque con disfraces extraños, seguirá funcionando, pero tan pronto como se produzca la ficción, o si hay alguien más en la pantalla, la película se cae inmediatamente. Sobre la sátira superior solo se puede hablar de manera esporádica, principalmente es una comedia relativamente estándar con un humor limitado y muchos puntos ciegos. (02.11.2020)

Las EE. UU. de Trump merecen más que suficiente la continuación de Borat, así que me divertí bastante y me reí varias veces en voz alta. Definitivamente, Maria Bakalova destacará en el papel principal femenino, secundando hábilmente y con humor a Cohen. Veremos qué EE. UU. nos muestra Borat en el año 2030... (14.03.2021)

El inicio y el final en Kazajistán son geniales, pero todo lo que hay entre medias es una miseria que toca temas sociales a fuego lento pero a través de una construcción argumental poco imaginativa y un humor tonto y sin gracia. Y el efecto de «cámara oculta», que hizo maravilloso el primer episodio, ni siquiera se ha intentado aquí. (27.10.2020)

I enjoyed the first Borat back in the day. It was my first encounter with Sacha Baron Cohen, and I roared with laughter at it because his ability to hide clever satire behind extremely vulgar jokes simply amused me. I'm all the more fascinated that in Borat 2 this is not only practically non-existent, but downright absent. Instead of more caustic savagery, Cohen made a pretty OK, if not actually very interesting, comedy about a Central Asian douchebag bonding with his daughter. It's not particularly interesting because Borat as such was never really a classic character and now Cohen would like me to approach him that way as a viewer. Only that I can't when there aren't even the foundations for something that would like to be a touching comedy and is largely a normal feature film. And then there are the Borat scenes. Michael Pence must have been very upset, and Robert Giuliani and his PR department must be having a hard time sleeping right now, but otherwise? Borat tries to shock, trick or fool a candy maker, a phone salesman, a printer and fax machine salesman and a few well-meaning (if a bit dim) rednecks, and they all more or less don't care. And me too, actually. As a Borat comedy, it's practically all over the place, and if I accept the idea that Cohen actually wanted to make a slightly different film with a slightly different theme, I have to wonder why the hell he did it with Borat in to begin with. (26.10.2020)

In some ways, Borat has a much harder time than he did 14 years ago, because what was a marginal excess back then is normcore today. But Sasha can get tough, and even though he recycles essential jokes, they are still great and they still work even in partial improvisation. There are a few instant classics (invasion of the Republican congress, a menstrual dance, a synagogue, a concert and, above all, Rudi's incredible anal sex), and the introduction and conclusion have a wonderful cadence, and Maria Bakalova is a great side-chick, although the finished family storyline is definitely a weakness. For me, Borat remains one of the few completely free forms of satirical commentary on the present, in which the Kazakh redneck, along with a collection of highly misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist views, acts as a gentle caress of the skin. The world has turned to shit, and people like Cohen protect what is left of common sense. (26.10.2020)