The problem with Bruno comes in mistaking blatancy for comic gold.
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07/09/09
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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.
07/09/09
Controversial, uncomfortable, and hilarious
07/09/09
Brüno hinges on how uncomfortable we are watching a homosexual minstrel show; our PC excruciation is as crucial to the formula as the good ol' boys' irritation
07/09/09
While Cohen's samurai satire has lost some of its edge, he can still leave audiences howling -- when they're not gasping in disbelief.
07/09/09
Brüno offers both succor and sucker bait for liberal-minded viewers who may feel harassed by prevailing and ever-shifting cultural sensitivities.
07/09/09
Top CriticCohen no longer has freshness and novelty on his side, but he’s retained the power to shock, offend, provoke, unsettle, and most importantly, entertain a jaded, desensitized public.
07/09/09
With his previous work, Baron Cohen has already proven he's a lot smarter than this
07/09/09
There are sequences of comic genius but you suspect that the huge dollop of cruelty in Cohen has got out of hand - and then the movie wilts.
07/09/09
Although Brüno is sometimes a wickedly funny flick, the dubious techniques and repellent protagonist produce fewer real laughs than its predecessor.
07/09/09
For those of a non-Puritanical mindset, it's hard to deny that Brüno succeeds in being both outrageous and outrageously funny, and it's hard to damn a comedy, regardless of its faults, for those qualities.
07/09/09
Like Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Brüno defies you not to see yourself in its funhouse mirror. And then dares you to laugh it off.
07/09/09
Bruno is a one-joke character in a one-joke movie, and it’s a joke Baron Cohen beats into the ground.
07/09/09
For a portrait of a monomaniac, it's alarmingly random. For an expose of charlatans who range from a psychic to celebrity-charity consultants, it's maddeningly shoddy.
07/09/09
The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity. Here is a film that is 82 minutes long and doesn’t contain 30 boring seconds.
07/09/09
Top CriticIt's a bubbling potion of the staged and the real that supplies a suitable comfort zone for Cohen to manufacture his most outrageous character: a hulking gay fashionista with a tireless libido and a limited appreciation for personal space.
07/09/09
A movie that will make you laugh so hard you'll gasp for breath...The formula is familiar, but Baron Cohen still finds ways to shock you into guffaws, over and over.
07/09/09
A funny, fearlessly absurd comedy but a shaky satire.
07/09/09
Cohen holds up another mirror to American society, and if anything we've only gotten uglier since Borat. Or maybe we're just uglier when it comes to homosexuality.
07/08/09
Shock and awesome. We are co-conspirators with Bruno when we know where he's headed. Let's keep Borat out of this.
07/08/09
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 
Ayman Abu Aita, the so-called 'terroist leader' interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen in Bruno, claims he was duped by the star -- and is now threatening to sue the filmmakers. More...
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
This week at the movies, we've got Austrian audacity (Bruno, starring Sacha Baron Cohen) and graduation gratification (I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere and... More...
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