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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.

Rated: 18

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:10-07-2009

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.

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen

Director: Larry Charles

Director: Larry Charles
Screenwriter: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Jeff Schaffer
Story: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer
Producer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jay Roach, Dan Mazer, Monica Levinson
Composer: Erran Baron Cohen
Studio: Universal Pictures

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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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
07/10/09
Damon Wise
Damon Wise
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
07/10/09
Dave Calhoun
Dave Calhoun
Time Out
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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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
07/10/09
Matthew De Abaitua
Matthew De Abaitua
Channel 4 Film
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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.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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Howlingly funny, staggeringly rude, brutally incorrect and very often just brilliant.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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But 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.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
07/10/09
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
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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.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
07/10/09
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan
This is London

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.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
07/10/09
Neon Kelly
Neon Kelly
Little White Lies

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.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
07/10/09
Ben Rawson-Jones
Ben Rawson-Jones
Digital Spy

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.

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07/10/09
Charles Gant
Charles Gant
Heat Magazine

A mixed bag - obvious targets sitting alongside worthy demolition jobs - but it's never less than amusing...and often excruciatingly funny.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
07/10/09
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

As phoney and frustrating as it is funny. Baron Cohen’s comedy-outsider schtick is slick but well and truly found out. The clothes may be new and more fabulous, but the emperor seriously needs to go shopping.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
07/10/09
Andy Lowe
Andy Lowe
Total Film

That’s not to say that there aren’t funny moments here because there are some really choice moments but they are lost in the mix of purile and often uncomfortable moments that really are below what you’d expect from the team behind this.

Full Review Source: Heart 106.2 | comment Comment
07/10/09
Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson
Heart 106.2

There is no braver satirist than Sacha Baron Cohen today, working in any medium, and I salute him. This movie is going to be as big as Borat, and deservedly so.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

One of the funniest things you'll ever see.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

For the majority of its short running time Brüno is a masterpiece of comedy by embarrassment.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Mark Adams
Mark Adams
Sunday Mirror [UK]

You could laugh so hard you won't be sure what will split first - your head, sides or "kugelsack".

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
07/10/09
Sun Online

Cohen’s new one-star show is appalling and funny and sometimes both simultaneously.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
07/10/09
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

Of 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.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
07/10/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
07/10/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express
 
 
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