Maria Bakalova absolutely killed it.

This was a big miss as a sequel... as established early on in the movie the character of "Borat" is pretty much dead as he is part of pop culture now so he can't do the same stunts as before. To work around this issue we are instead introduced to his daughter who travels with him while Sacha is mostly going around in throw-away disguises akin to his recent "Who is America?" show (which was already plagued by similar issues). Unfortunately they did very little to help ground this in reality. Borat as a journalist had a reason to travel around and have a camera on where as in the sequel it feels quite unauthentic and often scripted. The "charm" Borat had is also mostly absent as he was mostly just in narritive driven scenes ([spoiler]making the Giuliani scene the "climax" AND releasing the movie with this deliberate timing only did it a big disservice imho[/spoiler]). Did I chuckle in some scenes? Sure... but as a complete package it was just really disappointing and hollow.

Only cultist Trump supporters wouldn't find this funny. Hilarious AND it has some heart.

Funny at moments but doesn’t quite compare to the original film. It didn’t feel grounded in reality like the first film - felt it had potential for more. There’s a lot there but it’s nothing to be exceptionally proud of. It’s “Bad Grandpa” meets “Who Is America?” essentially.

I love you feminist Borat