Ribbing for your pleasure, Brüno is crafted to cause a flurry of varied reactions, even within a single viewer.
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07/10/09
Bruno (2009)
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Reviews Counted:210
Fresh:141
Rotten:69
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Brüno never comes close to the inspired comic/cultural lunacy of Borat, or even the dunderhead fearlessness of Ali G.
07/10/09
Brüno is no Borat.
07/10/09
Top CriticIch laughed, Ich cringed, Ich pitied Paula Abdul.
07/10/09
Starts off as a hilarious lampooning of fame and the pursuit of celebrity, but Cohen and the gang run out of material.
07/10/09
A patchy, hit-and-miss comedy with a few outrageous highs and a lot of just-okay padding, Brüno suggests that Sacha Baron Cohen's in-your-face fool routine sadly isn't working any more.
07/10/09
Top CriticParental Content Review
07/10/09
What’s lacking in the presentation, Baron Cohen makes up for with sheer ballsy, outrageous bravado. He bulldozes you with shock tactics. Brüno is a mesmerising invention, by turns repulsive and compelling.
07/10/09
It's funny stuff, but more in a "look at how outrageous we're being" sort of way than one that comes close to engaging in meaningful social commentary.
07/10/09
Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno is shocking, outrageous and uncompromising in its willingness to get a laugh. It's just not very funny.
07/10/09
Brüno is thrillingly funny, establishing Sacha Baron Cohen as a comedian willing to go further than any other to show us what needs to be shown.
07/10/09
Claims that the film is a social satire are as empty as Brüno’s pretty head, there’s no arguing with the fact that the film is staggeringly rude and very, very funny. The laughs build and build: it’s like surfing a tidal wave of hysterical bad taste.
07/10/09
Top CriticHowlingly funny, staggeringly rude, brutally incorrect and very often just brilliant.
07/10/09
Top CriticBut oh my, puerile and ragged as it is, and to some extent because it’s so ragged and puerile, I doubt if a more screamadelically hilarious film will be released in 2009.
07/10/09
Brüno is a brave and necessary comedy. The film will appear to be a succès de scandale, and will outrage many people, but it is actually just a success, a film with an instinct for naming and shaming a host of overprotected wrongs. Go and see it.
07/10/09
While the film may not be as consistently funny as Borat, Bruno takes the win for one of the most shocking and hilarious films in years.
07/10/09
He’s fearless, dedicated to his art and there really isn’t anyone else out there who does this schtick half as well. A third helping of fake interviews might be pushing the gimmick too far, but Brüno is as hilarious as it is terrifying.
07/10/09
Brüno is guilty of being both unbelievably crude and side-splittingly funny. While it's certainly very close to Borat at times, as well as the proverbial bone, with Sacha Baron Cohen in such fine form almost anything is forgivable.
07/10/09
Putting his hairless self in harm's way, Sacha Baron Cohen sets the bar for guerilla comedy as high and as low as it can go.
07/10/09
With as many gasps as laughs, and arguably less pleasurable than Borat, Brüno succeeds by sheer dint of Cohen’s unrivalled ability to conceive, and then bravely enact, the most jawdropping stunts imaginable.
07/10/09
Latest News for Bruno
November 12, 2009:
RT on DVD: Wassup, Bruno
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July 13, 2009:
Bruno 'terrorist' threatens to sue Sacha Baron Cohen 
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July 12, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Brüno Struts To The Top Spot
Sacha Baron Cohen scored another number one hit with his latest shockfest comedy Brüno which opened atop the North American box office bumping two-time champ Transformers:... More...
July 09, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified Fresh
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