, plus boundary-pushing bits involving abortion counseling, right-wing conspiracy theories and a Ku Klux Klan cameo at a CPAC event, “Borat 2” finds the fearless comedian taking indirect aim at America’s “magnificent new premier,” McDonald Trump.
But that’s not the only challenge Baron Cohen faces going in to the project: How do you dupe Americans when so many of them are already in on the joke? To the extent that the comedian’s strategy depends on punking people while in character, will that still work now that Borat is a widely recognized comic star? Turns out, if you lose the character’s trademark gray suit, one can still get away with an awful lot — and more still if there are producers working behind the scenes to grease the wheels...
At first, Borat’s goal is to present Johnny the Monkey to “No. 1 ladies’ man” Mikhael Pence. Failing that, Borat decides to offer his 15-year-old daughter Tutar as a child bride, which vaguely explains what Baron Cohen was doing crashing the Conserative Political Action Conference in full-body Trump disguise earlier this year. For the most part, the filmmakers have done an amazing job of keeping the lid on the sequel’s biggest surprises, and it would be a shame to spoil them here.
In some scenes, as with a Republican women’s meeting, one wishes the filmmakers had come up with a more effective plan than simply trying to embarrass a room full of conservatives. Unlike his Showtime series, “Who Is America?,” Baron Cohen lets Democrats almost entirely off the hook, which is consistent with a larger strategy to put aside any questioning of the left in order to defeat Trump — with one major exception.
Looking forward to seeing the Borat2 ,but at this point everything already being crazier by the day in real life, not sure if it will shake up the election
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