From “The Little Mermaid’s” Ariel, “Beauty and the Beast’s main character-the Beast, not the Beauty-to the eponymous folks in “Aladdin,” “Pocahontas” and “Tarzan,” he’s the Disney Legend who created some of the most indelible characters of several eras. Glen Keane brings 43 years of Disney character animation experience to a new film now streaming on Netflix. It will make you laugh, but is geared to also make you think.Ĭue another round of bad Borat impressions. Just like the year it is being released, “Borat Subsequent MovieFilm” is a chaotic, uncomfortable experience.
It is both a high-brow exposé of the dark underbelly of this American election year and a low-brow comedy that will do anything to make you laugh. His work is “Candid Camera” with a sharp edge a cutting satire that mixes real-life undercover reporting with aggressive and often tasteless humour. It’s not often you can describe a comedy as nerve wracking but “Borat Subsequent MovieFilm” is that film.īaron Cohen’s audacious work is often hilarious, but it is the danger that comes along with his stunts that pushes the material from funny to fearless. It is the most outrageous of the film’s several must-be-seen-to-be-believed moments. It begins with Rudy asking, “Did you ever eat a bat?” and goes downhill from there. Those scenes are as nervy and squirmy as humour gets but the sequence everyone will be talking about sees a sit-down interview with Donald Trump’s handsy personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. And then there’s a debutant ball “fertility dance” that redefines the term OMG. Then two MAGA men take Borat to a rally where he performs a country song-“Journalists! Who wants to inject them with the Wuhan flu? / Chop them up like the Saudis do.”-that elicits cheers and straight-armed salutes from the crowd. “You want them to like you so you can get money from them.” There’s an Instagram influencer who teaches Sandra to be submissive to increase her appeal to men. Thus, begin the journey that will see Borat and Sandra meet with a real-life cast of characters that offers cringe worthy insight into Western culture. “My daughter is here,” Borat reports back to Kazakhstan. His job is to earn the respect of Donald Trump by giving the gift of a monkey to “Vice Premier Pence.” When Borat arrives though, the monkey is gone from its packing crate. The action begins with Borat being released from prison, cleaned up and once again sent to “Yankeeland” on a mission. Only his daughter Sandra Jessica Parker Sagdiyev (Irina Novak) still talks with the family patriarch. His son is so ashamed he changed his name from Sagdiyev to Jeffrey Epstein.
After the events of the first movie Borat was thrown into prison, an embarrassment to his country and family. The new movie begins with a chance for redemption. “Borat Subsequent MovieFilm,” streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, once again blurs the line between comedy and tragedy, reality and fiction.
Now, into a world of fake Borats, the real deal returns. Anyone who ever said, “Is nice,” in a broad unidentifiable accent, or wore a bushy fake moustache or, horror of horrors, donned a fluorescent Mankini Swimsuit Thong for a day at the beach will need no introduction to Borat Sagdiyev.įourteen years ago Kazakhstan’s most famous reporter, the comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen, spawned a million Halloween costumes and ten times that in bad, inappropriate impressions.