Jason Woliner directs Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova and Rudy Giuliani in this comedy sequel to the satirical ‘Kazakstan’ prank journalist smash.

The Borat character is too recognisable for this to work how you need it to. The movie acknowledges that, tries valiantly to work around the problem but the live stunts never have the danger or the crackle of the daring original. Bakalova is sweetly awesome as the cage dwelling teen daughter discovering feminism. Probably would have been better to keep this as pure fiction with a tight script and support actors in on the gags… Still, funny in spits and starts.

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Perfect Double Bill: Borat (2006)

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