Summaries

Borat returns to America from Kazakhstan to America, this time to reveal more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Fourteen long years after the culture shock he experienced in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev has been called to Premier Nursultan Nazarbayev's office for a life-or-death task. To redeem himself and salvage the reputation of the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, Borat must now return to President Donald Trump's America to deliver an exceptional gift to Vice President Mike Pence. Instead, Borat's newfound 15-year-old daughter Tutar enters the picture, forcing a change of plans. As now-famous Borat takes a deep dive into U.S. politics, the father and daughter learn a thing or two about feminism, racism, and an insidious, lethal virus called COVID-19. Will Borat, Kazakhstan's fourth-best journalist, carry out his mission?—Nick Riganas

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Keywords
  • disguise
  • covid 19
  • coronavirus
  • making fun of americans
  • fax machine
Genres
  • Comedy
Release date Oct 22, 2020
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States United Kingdom Romania
Official sites Official site
Language English Romanian Hebrew Croatian Bulgarian
Filming locations Romania
Production companies Amazon Studios Four by Two Films

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 35m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.78 : 1

Synopsis

After fourteen years of forced labor in a gulag for the dishonor inflicted on his country in his previous adventure, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) is released by his country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev (Dani Popescu), with a mission to deliver Kazakh Minister of Culture (and Kazakhstan's most famous porn actor) Johnny the Monkey to President Donald Trump in an attempt to redeem the nation & earn redemption for the country in the eyes of Trump. Unable to get close to Trump after defecating in the landscaping of Trump International Hotel and Tower in the previous film, Borat opts to give the monkey to Vice President Mike Pence. Before he leaves, he discovers that his arch nemesis neighbor, Nursultan Tulyakbay (Miroslav Tolj), has stolen his family and home, and that he has a fifteen-year-old daughter, Tutar (Maria Bakalova), who lives in his barn.

Borat is transported across the world in a circuitous route by cargo ship and arrives in Galveston, Texas, where he finds he is a celebrity. Wanting to maintain a low profile, Borat purchases multiple disguises. He buys a cell phone and goes to welcome Johnny but finds that Tutar is in Johnny's shipping crate and has eaten him. Horrified, Borat faxes Nazarbayev, who tells him to find a way to satisfy Pence or he will be executed. Borat decides to give Tutar to Pence. He buys a cage to house Tutar and refers to the daughter owner's manual to figure out how else she operates. Amazingly people sell him a cage to house his daughter, sell him a propane tank to kill gypsies and even help him fax to his premier "I will gift my daughter to Mike Pence".. No one bats an eyelid.

Tutar receives a makeover (A non-racist hair color, cutting of head hair and not pubic hair, and a "no means yes" dress) (Borat also keeps telling Tutar that woman cant own businesses, have a job or drive. but she gets very different perceptions from the free society in America). Tutar eats a cupcake and swallows a plastic baby figure on top of it. She goes to a catholic clinic to get an abortion and is told "no".Borat introduces her at a debutante ball. At the ball, her menstrual blood is prominently displayed during a father and daughter dance. Discovering that Pence is nearby at CPAC, Borat disguises himself as Trump and attempts to give Tutar to him there but is ejected by security. Nazarbayev is enraged and tells him to return to Kazakhstan for execution. Realizing that he can still give Tutar to someone close to Trump, Tutar suggests giving her to Rudy Giuliani.

Because Giuliani had bragged about having an affair with a large-breasted woman, Borat brings Tutar to a cosmetic surgeon who advises breast implants. But is costs $21000. While Borat works in a barbershop to raise enough money to pay for breast surgery, he briefly leaves Tutar with a babysitter who is confused by Borat's sexist teachings (woman drink water out of a doggie bowl, has a ball and chain and has to be treated like a dog); she informs Tutar that the things her culture has taught her are lies. After seeing a woman driving a car, and successfully masturbating for the first time, Tutar decides not to get the surgery and lashes out at Borat for keeping her oppressed her whole life. Before leaving, she tells him the Holocaust is a lie by citing a Holocaust denial Facebook page.

Shaken, Borat decides to commit suicide by going to the nearest synagogue dressed as his version of a stereotypical Hebrew and waiting for the next shooting but is shocked to find Holocaust survivors there who treat him with kindness, and to his anti-Semitic delight, reassure him that the Holocaust happened. Overjoyed, Borat goes looking for Tutar, but finds the streets deserted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He quarantines with two QAnon conspiracy theorists (Clintons and Obamas drink children blood, democrats should have less rights and so on) who offer to help him reunite with Tutar. They find Tutar online, she has become a reporter and will be covering a March for Our Rights rally in Olympia, Washington.

At the rally, the men appeal to Tutar, telling her that her dad will be killed unless she helps. She accepts and arranges an interview to seduce Giuliani, but without her father's participation. Borat talks with her babysitter and has a change of heart, realizing that he loves Tutar. After the interview, Giuliani and Tutar proceed to a bedroom before Borat intervenes and tries to personally offer sexual favors to Giuliani. Borat decides to face execution in Kazakhstan and Tutar promises to go with him.

Borat is shocked to find he will not be executed as he had instead been used as retaliation by Nazarbayev for making Kazakhstan a laughingstock. Before departing for the United States, Kazakhstan officials infected Borat with SARS-CoV-2 via an injection of "gypsy tears", making him patient zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. As he was sent around the world, he continued to spread the virus. Borat records Nazarbayev's admission and sends it to Brian, the man who sold him his phone.

Borat and Tutar blackmail Nazarbayev into giving him his job back and changing Kazakhstan's misogynistic laws. Three months later, Tutar and Borat are a reporting team and Kazakhstan has a new tradition to replace the nation's antisemitic ones: the Running of the American. It features exaggerated caricatures of Trump supporters pretending to spread COVID-19 and killing an effigy of Anthony Fauci. The film ends with a message encouraging viewers to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

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