You should know by now whether Bruno is your kind of movie. I had high hopes, but confess to leaving the cinema somewhat disappointed.
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07/06/09
Bruno (2009)
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Reviews Counted:208
Fresh:140
Rotten:68
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Crude and offensive, but with ample cultural insights and gut-busting laughs, Bruno is another outlandish and entertaining mockumentary from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 9, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $59,992,760
Synopsis: After BORAT took over America in 2006, another Sacha Baron Cohen creation arrives on the big screen. In BRUNO, the gay Austrian model of the title brings his antics to the States.
Reviews for Bruno
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt's essential - but hardly comfortable - viewing. You'll watch most of it through splayed fingers, and at times you'll need a spare hand to pick your jaw up off the cinema floor.
07/02/09
Top CriticSacha Baron Cohen might be a one trick pony, but he sure knows how to give the audience, ahem, a good ride.
07/07/09
Top CriticThere's a love story at the heart of this and it's not necessarily a feature film, but it is a film phenomenon and he is a master at self-promotion, you've got to admit.
07/08/09
Top CriticFor sheer shock value – and that’s really why people go and see a film like this – Bruno delivers. It’s clear, however, that the formula is wearing thin, and Baron Cohen need dig deeper into his bag of tricks for his next outing.
07/06/09
Top CriticBruno is not nearly as ambitious as Borat, where Cohen's talent to outrage ranged far and wide. He's no longer a saboteur. He's become part of the machinery.
07/08/09
Top CriticWhere Borat was an innocent abroad, Brüno is just broad; Sacha Baron Cohen makes Brüno the self centred and self obsessed centre of the film, which is not so much a story as a series of sketches designed to shock, disgust and outrage
07/06/09
Top CriticCall me a grouch, but I found myself on side with Harrison Ford who, when stalked by Bruno for an interview, tells him exactly where to go.
07/08/09
Top CriticThe film's one authentic moment has him stalking Harrison Ford, who tells him in no uncertain terms where to go; frankly, I was with Ford.
07/17/09
Top CriticWhile Cohen's taboo-breaking audacity remains in full force throughout Bruno, his ability to keep the big laughs on a roll has waned this time around.
07/12/09
Top CriticI watched in superficial fascination, chuckled a couple of times, quickly became bored and found the 80 minute running time dragged like a one-note joke that outstays its welcome
07/06/09
Top CriticIt can be entertaining, in a scattergun way. But its most extreme moments feel forced rather than revealed. Even its over-the-top finale, with echoes of Borat's rodeo escapade, seems over-calculated this time around.
07/08/09
Top CriticBruno is not for the easily upset but if you roared with laughter at Borat the chances are that you will find the gay Austrian model even more outrageously funny.
07/10/09
You could laugh so hard you won't be sure what will split first - your head, sides or "kugelsack".
07/10/09
It's properly ridiculous, mad entertaining and, dare we say it, laugh-out-loud silly.
07/10/09
Better than Borat? No. But easily just as good, and twice as outrageous.
07/10/09
Brüno is wall-to-wall jokes, but it never loses sight of its targets, which are many and in the end all-encompassing.
07/16/09
The only thing Cohen can do is to throw the character's sexuality in people's faces, but there are several brilliant sequences of baiting and utilizing American gay panic that really hit the satirical button.
11/17/09
As funny as some of this is, though, even with a running time just shy of 90 minutes, Brüno often feels as if it's straining for effect.
07/10/09
There are a lot of big, cruel laughs in this but it was a lot easier to warm to the innocent Borat than the self-absorbed Brüno and the film begins to overstay its welcome even at a trim 80-odd minutes.
07/10/09
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