Bruno Movie Review

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Anal bleaching, talking penis, kinky sex, and dildos-on-parade just some of the running gags of the new mockumentary comedy film Bruno starring Sacha Baron Cohen. If you find these risqué subjects offensive, you have been warned.

But talking penises aside, Bruno is a laugh-out-loud politically incorrect film that targets homophobia. Similar to Cohens Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, bigotry is the focal point of the movie and the source of many guffaws.




I have always been an admirer of Cohens work. The comedian has emerged as one of the most politically astute humorists of his generation. Sure, he courts controversy for the sake of laughter, but how can you hate someone who will do anything to make you chuckle and dare I say it, think?

In Bruno, Cohen stars as the raucous title character. Hes a gay fashionista from Austria who is the host of Funkyzeit Mit Bruno, a top-rated late night fashion show in any German-speaking countryapart from Germany.

The narrative moves forward when Bruno loses his job after crashing an actual Milan fashion show by designer Agatha Ruiz De La Prada. He is schwarz-listed. But our hero dusts himself off and decides to move to Hollywood. His mission? To become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler!




Accompanied by his dutiful assistant Lutz (Swedish actor Gustaf Hammarsten), Bruno goes on a globe-trotting tour in search of fame. Cohen turns the spotlight on the notion of celebrity and the idea of being famous. One-by-one, supposed media savvy celebrities lined up to be interviewed by Bruno.

One of them is Paula Abdul. The American Idol judge is seen sitting on the back of a Mexican man in a running gag about using Mexican gardeners as armchairs. LaToya Jacksons similar clip has been cut out of respect for the Jackson family. In the deleted scene, Bruno grills LaToya about Michael Jackson.

But my favorite among the celebrity interviews is Ron Paul. The former presidential hopeful becomes Brunos erotic object of desire to which Paul responds by storming off and muttering hes a queer!

Cohen reteams with his Borat director, Larry Charles, to give us one of the funniest films of the year. Even though their new collaboration is not as fresh as their first movie, Cohen and Charles still managed to play with their subjects chauvinism and prejudice.

Bruno is a film divided into many interesting subplots. Theres Bruno as Madonna when he decides to adopt an African baby. Theres also Bruno vs. straight Alabama hunters. And then theres Bruno hoping for world peace when he visits the Middle East (he calls it Middle Earth) to bridge the relationship between Palestinians and the Israelis.

Much of the films setups work, but I cant help but question the authenticity of each construct. Did Cohen really prank the celebrities or were they in on the joke? What about the crowd of Arkansas wrestling fans who get upset when Bruno displays gay affection in a cage fight?

What I really want to see is a documentary about the making of Bruno. The films production notes tell intriguing behind-the-scenes stories such as the crew receiving calls from the FBI warning of death threats, dodging clenched fists, angry mobs, and loaded guns.

Bruno is like foreplay to an interesting movie. The mockumentary which aimed to show our bigotry experienced prejudice from its very subjects.

And for that, Bruno gets 3 schadenfreude kisses

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[enigmatically]

too bad you didn't get an interview...that would have been epic

[mdelar]

I know right :)

[chillercm]

manny this isnt really a movie review ur just telling us the same as the trailers, i saw the the movie at the premier and i have to say it might funnier than borat, btw if u guys think that this movie is way to gay then ur just not comfortable with ur sexuality or u are in fact gay

[mdelar]

hhhmmm...as opposed to a not real movie review? What do we have here...the premise, and my opinion...isn't that what a movie review is supposed to be?

[masterjasonwebb]

BEST critical review that I have seen yet! Good work :)

[mdelar]

thanks! hope you're having a great weekend :)

[CurlehMustash]

A damn genius movie

[VivaLaAnthony93]

You rate movies with...kisses?

Wow. Just wow

[fhilipman]

Borat gets three cold rice corns

[missbs1]

I don't remember if they showed that in the finished movie but the assistent to "Bruno" (here at 1:20 with the box) is swedish and I just listened on a 1,5 hour long radio- program when he talked about how it was to make this movie; those parents ware willing to tattoo the children, make them go down 10 pounds on a week, take in botox in the poor childrens faces if that was necessary, put them with dying animals and a lot of more things... what are this "parents" thinking with?!

[Greeny1hit1the1sign]

People I saw this fags review and I thought the movie was going to be funny but instead all I saw was a really gay version of Borat I understood the humor but the movie was just too much for me maybe it was because I was to heterosexual I really don't know. Please if your reading this, the movie blows yea it's that gay and I found it to be boring.

[kilibot]

aand you just proved his point

[1ToNJaB]

Someone PLEASE Post a video clip of tat cage fighting scene! Epic

[Fifa20102010]

soo gay

[safwaan619]

stupid talking PENIS

[theusedbj21]

is everything in this movie real?