Borat sequel worth watching for highlights, even though some of its episodes fall flat

 Sacha Baron Cohen's 16-years-later sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (aka Borat 2), doesn't rise to the level of hilarity and astonishment of the first go-round, largely because, as noted in some reviews, SBC's success is in part his undoing: Whereas almost all of Borat 1 seemed to be a series of punks on many unsuspecting people who thought they ere being interviewed for a profile or news segment for a legit Kazakh TV network, in the sequel it seems that many (not all) of the encounters were at least to a degree scripted or orchestrated by the filmmakers. That said, there are some great segments: Everyone's talking about the "interview" with Giuliani in which he comes across as a sexual predator and rightfully so, it's an astonishing take; also of note Borat's crashing a speech by Pence to a conservative (of course) audience: How the hell did he manage to get into the meeting dressed in a Trump mask and fat suit, carrying his "daughter" (played well by Maria Bakalova) over his shoulder, without drawing immediate hostile response of SS? The sequence of Borat leading a right-wing rally in singing a dreadful diatribe attacking Fauci et al is painful to watch - the glee on their faces as they sing these hideous lyrics - and what can we make of a woman in a bakery who obligingly writes in icing, adorned w/ little smily faces, "Jews will not replace us" - or the supposed minister/counselor who listens blithely and offers palliatives as Borat tells the him that he's had sexual relationships w/ his own daughter? The film, however, does drag along w/ a few episodes that seem just silly or ludicrous - the crashing or a debutante ball, addressing a small group of Florida Republican women - who, by the way, handle this intrusion calmly and with reasonably good sense. Still, the film is worth seeing for its highlights, even if there is some meandering along the way.