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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.
Sacha Baron Cohen has nearly succeeded in his quest to be the film equivalent to Howard Stern. Crude and crass rather than challenging, shocking rather than stimulating, Cohen doesn't seem to care what he does so long as he gets people talking.
It is proof positive that this emperor of comedy has no clothes, a fact that he seems depressingly eager to demonstrate throughout.
While there are some big laughs to be had, Bruno ultimately fails at its more grandiose intentions as a sharp satire about our obsessions with celebrity and tendencies towards homophobia.
The reason Bruno doesn't rise to the level of Cohen's earlier work %u2014 besides the inevitable diminished returns of revisiting now familiar territory %u2014 is that this time around the film is more interested in making fun than in making a poin
A condescending picture that always takes aim at easy targets, fires away with a blunderbuss, and then pretends to be courageous for what it's done.
Yes--if you're asking--Brüno is quite possibly the most uproarious, groundbreaking, and shocking comedy of the past decade--and that includes its sister film which showcased the Jew-phobic Borat.
Intolerance and outrage has never been funnier, and nobody incites it better than Brüno, Borat or Baron Cohen.
Brüno's greatest outrages here will still elicit howls and shrieks, as well they should. But our fabulous Austrian friend is no comedy revolutionary, only a cruel and silly stereotype in leopard-print underwear.
It’s an exercise in offensiveness, an exploration of over-the-topness and a gleeful working of both sides of the street. What brings Brüno down, though, is sinful behavior. Mr. Baron Cohen commits the cardinal sin of unfunniness.
Top CriticWhether you believe Brüno is the caustic comedy of a political prankster or the rude humor of a smart-aleck, it's hard to deny that there is a subversive intelligence at work.
Sacha Baron Cohen uses his guerilla tactics to 'expose' the vanity and vacuity of Hollywood and the American South. His high-wire humor can be very funny, but here the groans often drown out the giggles.
Funny, yes. Astute in its satire, not as much.
While Cohen has teamed up again with director Larry Charles, Brüno feels protracted. When the filmmakers’ luck dries up, they resort to staged fish-in-a-barrel events that make the movie a more desperate, less surprising exercise.
Borat got some pretty uncomfortable and surprising behavior from people. Brüno shoots fish in a barrel.
Producer/star Sacha Baron Cohen keeps trying to mine humor from the same type of jokes. And in terms of story structure, it's pretty much the same movie as its predecessor.
Brüno is a smarter, savvier and all-around funnier movie than its predecessor.
A politically-incorrect savior, that rare comedy that revels in bad taste while also actually having something worthwhile to say about the world we live in and the senselessness of stereotypes.
The problem with Bruno comes in mistaking blatancy for comic gold.
The movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture.
Controversial, uncomfortable, and hilarious
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
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July 09, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified Fresh
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