As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other experts out there.  Sometimes, it inspires me to see the movie too and get back to being my circle's go-to movie guy.  Sometimes, they save me $9 and you 800+ words of blathering.  In a new review series, I'm opening my site to friend submissions for guest movie reviews.

TODAY’S CRITIC: Lafronda Stumn

Lafronda Stumn is a student at Madisonville Community College and intends to graduate with an Associate's degree in Associate of the Arts. She plans on earning a Bachelors Degree in Motion Picture Studies and English at Wright State University. Her favorite Directors are Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Spike Lee, and her favorite actors are Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Halle Berry. Lafronda contacted this page looking for a place to get published and I enjoy giving people that very kind of opportunity. This is her 25th guest review for Every Movie Has a Lesson. Welcome as always, Lafronda!

HER REVIEW: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Sacha Baron Cohen represented the portrayal of Kazakstan in the first film. In his most recent film, Borat’s life is at stake by the death. The leader of Kazakstan wants revenge. Borat instead of Trump, gets the instead of president Mike Pence or Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, in a compromising position. Unfortunately, Borat requests a monkey to flee with him only to be his 15-year-old daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova), which sends him by a huge crate in the U.S. in New York.

The movie stretches in crude humor when Tutar dances at a debutante ball and shows a large vagina bush underneath her skirt. Borat and Tutar run to a bakery. In order to enjoy the food of America, Tutar eats a cupcake with a tiny plastic baby on top This incident, leads Borat and Tutar to go to a doctor to take it out. Provided is a funny sequence when Borat extends to a Pence rally as a KKK member. He has no problems following in at hotel convention, with a blow-up doll to entice Pence.

The voice of reason is the caregiver who babysat her as they discuss Tutar receiving breast implants. The babysitter tries to talk to her out of having the procedure. Tutar is killing time when to receive her breast implants. Tutar goes to another conservative ladies’ convention. She discusses her love of masturbation. An awkward but funny scene, in which Tutar is interviewing Guiliani and Borat, makes a mess of the interview.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is a near miss. Unfortunately, the film goes to places I’d rather not cross. There are many in scenes that are mean-spirited and pretty rude. Some are gross in separate parts, which can be funny, as well as taking swipes and Guiliani and Pence. Many are more vulgar than funny overall, even though gross-out humor can be playful. In this film, it drives you to want to throw up. Tutar encounters with the conservative women’s groups are cringe-worthy while poking fun at Trump’s accomplices.

The Black babysitter is bemused by how Borat is treating his daughter. I too enjoy the Black female caregiver. The babysitter is the sound of reason. She teaches Borat to treat his daughter as an individual person and not to make his daughter like a sex object by pimped out to spare his own skin.

Yet overall, it’s a miss, unless on Amazon Prime you can fast forward to the Guiliani and Pence scenes. The Black lady telling like it is to Borat and Tutar. Borat needed to be less boorish, more reflective. Borat treating his daughter like a sex object portraying female liberation is sexist more than funny and delivers a confusing message. Bakalova is valuable in concocting what her father wants, then rebelling against his wishes. In conclusion, Borat spends most of the movie-making his daughter look bad for most of the film. For me to praise this film.

RATING: ** 1/2

CONCLUSION

Thank you again, Lafronda! You are welcome anytime. Friends, if you see a movie that I don't see and want to be featured on my website, hit up my website's Facebook page and you can be my next GUEST CRITIC!