Sacha Baron Cohen might be a one trick pony, but he sure knows how to give the audience, ahem, a good ride.
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07/07/09
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:Jul 10, 2009 Wide
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.
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Reviews for Bruno
...provokes half as many laughs in a seemingly less improvised comedy that goes twice again as far as Borat in goosing sexual sight gags designed to make even the most numb audience members blanch.
07/07/09
Baron Cohen's daring and fearlessness as a cultural critic is in as grand a form here as it was in Borat, his last adventure in... lampooning... kneejerk ignorance and superficiality.
07/07/09
May be the funniest film of the year thus far, but it doesn't come close to reaching the comedic heights of his previous effort, Borat.
07/07/09
Rated R for rude, raw, ribald, and repetitive, Brüno delivers Sacha Baron Cohen's brand of commando comedy, but little else.
07/07/09
More envelope-pushing and funnier than Borat, Baron Cohen's perilous brand of agit-comedy takes us from meetings with terrorists to acrobatic penises. How did this get away with an R rating?
07/07/09
For sheer shock value – and that’s really why people go and see a film like this – Bruno delivers. It’s clear, however, that the formula is wearing thin, and Baron Cohen need dig deeper into his bag of tricks for his next outing.
07/06/09
You should know by now whether Bruno is your kind of movie. I had high hopes, but confess to leaving the cinema somewhat disappointed.
07/06/09
Bruno is well worth seeing for a good laugh, even if it is a hit-and-miss affair. After all, I doubt any negative reactions will stop Baron Cohen pulling the greatest prank of all -- pocketing millions from willing suckers like us.
07/06/09
Baron Cohen is a genuine comic guerrilla, charging right to the front lines of the war against prejudice and sanctimony.
07/06/09
Top CriticYes, Bruno is in 'gay face' if you will, but when going beyond the surface, he is clearly turning the mirror on us and saying, 'Do you see how stupid these stereotypes are?'
07/06/09
Where Borat was an innocent abroad, Brüno is just broad; Sacha Baron Cohen makes Brüno the self centred and self obsessed centre of the film, which is not so much a story as a series of sketches designed to shock, disgust and outrage
07/06/09
I watched in superficial fascination, chuckled a couple of times, quickly became bored and found the 80 minute running time dragged like a one-note joke that outstays its welcome
07/06/09
'tis the season for summer camp, and this one fits the bill as well as any other.
07/04/09
It's essential - but hardly comfortable - viewing. You'll watch most of it through splayed fingers, and at times you'll need a spare hand to pick your jaw up off the cinema floor.
07/02/09
If Sasha Baron Cohen is an acquired taste, I'm sipping the Kool-Aid.
07/01/09
Even more insane and hysterical than Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen's hilarious follow-up is also far more coherent and effective at using shock factor to get you laughing.
07/01/09
The second hour of Bruno is a laugh out loud satire that will make the world a better place. That's what we want from Sacha Baron Cohen... Lots of people do funny. I'm glad he still transcended and took the bad people of the world down a peg."
07/01/09
While the film isn’t as consistently funny as Borat, Bruno should still pull in a sizeable audience.
06/30/09
There is also a pronounced nasty streak to the innumerable provocations staged by the title character that curdles the laughs and wears out the flamboyant Austrian fashionista's welcome within the picture's brief 82-minute running time.
06/30/09
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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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