I watched the new Borat and actually enjoyed it quite a lot. It's fixed a lot of the issues in that it spends more time going after prejudices and showing up bigots and sleazebags, and the new character of Borat's daughter helps the movie expose aspects of the patriarchy that Borat couldn't really get to himself (see the feminist scene in the first one, which just falls apart because the feminists see right through him - here they can go after debutante balls and Christians who purport to be women's groups but choke on their tea at the mention of masturbation). Also, the choice to make it more politically-driven narratively not only lends itself to sharper set-ups but also repositions Borat as an ironic stereotype held up as a mirror rather than the plain stereotype for its own sake that he had become.
(Sadly, I have to report that the Giuliani scene has been hugely over-hyped. He's moderately creepy, but he genuinely is just tucking his shirt back into his trousers after the honeypot interviewer pulls it out to remove his microphone. I've seen people say this will be the end of his career, and that's just nonsense.)
Rating: Good.
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