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

Name: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2020
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu, Manuel Vieru

Comedy

Borat is back, older, more famous, and disguised badly, dragging his teenage daughter across a pandemic-stricken America to bribe his way into Trump's inner circle. It's the same reckless mix of scripted farce and real people caught on camera, but sharper and angrier than the original, aimed squarely at 2020's chaos. Funny, cringe-inducing, occasionally moving — best for anyone who likes their satire dangerous.

TMDb rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy prank comedy that lets an unwitting public trip over its own prejudices, and you don't mind a loose, sketch-like run of ambushes built on a fake foreign persona.

Skip it if you want a tidy plot or gentle satire, since this is mostly raw, uncomfortable set pieces that can feel mean-spirited and will test your patience when the jokes miss.

What it asks of you: At 96 minutes it rarely lets up, so expect loud, abrasive stretches and long, awkward pauses that are themselves the point.

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But Some gags now feel dated or mean-spirited, and you already know the format from the sequel.

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Da Ali G Show2000

Watch Sacha Baron Cohen invent the whole toolkit — Ali G, Bruno and Borat himself, all ambushing unsuspecting politicians and experts years before Hollywood got involved. The cheapest, rawest version of the joke, and often the funniest.

But No plot, no through-line, just sketches — and some references feel very early-2000s British telly.

Brüno2009

Same director, same trick, different disguise — an Austrian fashion reporter instead of a Kazakh journalist, wading into homophobia and vanity with even less restraint. If you want more cringe comedy from the same mind, start here.

But Leans harder into shock value than satire, and its provocations have aged more awkwardly than Borat's.

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The wildcard

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The Great Dictator1940

Both use a ridiculous foreign persona and broad comic disguise to smuggle real political anger past an audience that came for laughs — Chaplin just aimed his at Hitler instead of Trump.

Chaplin plays a bumbling barber mistaken for a Hitler-esque dictator, using slapstick and disguise to mock fascism while it was still an active, terrifying threat rather than history. Braver than it looks.

But Silent-era pacing and a startlingly sincere final speech that some viewers find jarring after all the comedy.

The Dictator2012

Baron Cohen drops the hidden-camera trick entirely and plays a scripted tyrant instead, but the target — Western hypocrisy about the Middle East — is the same bruise he keeps pressing. Broader, sillier, easier to sit through in one go.

But Without real unscripted victims, the comedy loses the electric, is-this-actually-happening thrill of Borat.

Who Is America?2018

Baron Cohen's TV return to the ambush format, now aimed squarely at American politicians rather than randoms, getting actual congressmen to say deranged things on camera. Meaner, more political, and often startling.

But Fragmented into short sketches rather than one story, and some segments land much better than others.

Nathan for You2013

A quieter, gentler cousin of the same idea — a deadpan host walks real small-business owners into increasingly absurd schemes, and their genuine bewilderment is the whole joke. Less shocking, just as brilliant.

But No political target, no outrage — if you want satire with teeth, this is comedy for its own sake.

Best in Show2000

Christopher Guest's scripted mockumentary about dog show obsessives proves you don't need real victims to get real laughs — every character is fictional, and every one feels like someone you've met.

But Fully scripted and gentle where Borat is chaotic and confrontational — a much softer kind of funny.

Idiocracy2006

A prophetic satire of American stupidity and political theatre that landed years before it felt like a documentary. Broad, dumb-on-purpose, and unnervingly accurate about where the culture was heading.

But Cheap production and a thin plot — it's a one-joke premise stretched to feature length.

Jackass Forever2022

No politics, no disguise, just grown men in genuine physical peril for a laugh — the last surviving cousin of Borat's commitment-over-dignity philosophy. Purely, stupidly joyful.

But Zero satire, zero narrative — this is pain and slapstick with nothing else going on underneath.

Get Out2017

Borat's naive foreigner and Get Out's polite outsider both function as human tripwires, walking into rooms full of people who reveal what they really think the moment they feel unwatched.

Swap the comedy for horror and the outsider becomes a Black man visiting his white girlfriend's family — the same mechanism of exposing a society's rot through someone who doesn't quite belong, dialed up to dread instead of laughs.

But It will actually scare you — this is a horror film first, not a comedy with occasional stakes.

Roger & Me1989

Same weapon, no costume: Moore uses himself instead of a fictional persona to corner real power, proving the ambush works even without a wig and a Kazakh accent.

Michael Moore invented the ambush-interview political documentary here, chasing GM's CEO around trying to get him to answer for factory closures, using real footage and real refusals as the entire joke and the entire tragedy.

But No fictional character, no jokes written in advance — it's a much drier, angrier watch than Borat.