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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.
Where 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Top CriticYou should know by now whether Bruno is your kind of movie. I had high hopes, but confess to leaving the cinema somewhat disappointed.
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.
Top CriticSacha Baron Cohen might be a one trick pony, but he sure knows how to give the audience, ahem, a good ride.
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.
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.
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.
Top CriticBrüno offers both succor and sucker bait for liberal-minded viewers who may feel harassed by prevailing and ever-shifting cultural sensitivities.
Top CriticBrüno is no Borat.
Top CriticWholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it.
Top CriticOf course, there are laughs, and if audacity were the only principle by which film-making achievement were judged the movie would be a knockout. But having groaned and winced through most of its 83 minutes I couldn't wait to get out of there.
The fallacy that Baron Cohen’s comedy is politically pertinent derives from its pandering to Lefty biases.
A sporadically funny comedy that often shocks and disgusts, but falls flat with tedious and lazy humor.
It’s certainly not that there aren’t a few funny moments in the film. There are, but overwhelmingly, Bruno’s stunts are demeaning, they are insulting and they are really cruel.
If you're naďve, in high school, or a dedicated follower of scatology, you'll think this is genius. Anyone with world experience, however, will feel left out of the loop.
November 12, 2009:
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July 13, 2009:
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July 09, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified Fresh
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