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.
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07/09/09
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.
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.
Reviews for Bruno
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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
There'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.
07/08/09
Call 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.
07/08/09
Bruno 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.
07/08/09
It 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.
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
Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles are maestros conducting a symphony of discomfort.
07/08/09
Those who go in with their jaws clenched are bound to find offense. Better to focus on the stuff that works outrageously.
07/08/09
The fallacy that Baron Cohen’s comedy is politically pertinent derives from its pandering to Lefty biases.
07/08/09
If Bruno is not quite up to the lofty standards of Borat, it is daring and sometimes insightful.
07/08/09
Outrage is entertainment!
07/08/09
Too often, Brüno feels like Borat's weak-wristed brother, too much of it just a gay cliche aimed straight at the American bigot belt.
07/08/09
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November 12, 2009:
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July 13, 2009:
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July 09, 2009:
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