An expose of the sham values of celebrity worship and tinseltown ambition largely unaware that the producer/director/writer and lead actor exemplifies those very values to the hilt.
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07/26/09
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.
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
I don't think Cohen's targets are even being particularly homophobic, they'd just prefer if this crazed, half-naked circus freak would just put his penis away and stop invading their personal space
07/25/09
The movie is laced with edgy, eyebrow-singeing 'shock' moments, but Bruno himself belongs to a long tradition of English-mangling funny 'foreigners,' as portrayed by Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye and armies of radio and vaudeville comedians.
07/22/09
The film's weakness is obvious: it has exactly one trick up its sleeve, and merely repeats that trick over and over for its entire 87-minute running time
07/21/09
Sacha Baron Cohen's smiling and gregarious Borat, as opposed to his haughty and selfish Bruno, scores much higher on the likeability scale.
07/17/09
To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's smackdown of Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential Debate: "Bruno, I screened Borat; I knew Borat; Borat was a review of mine. Bruno, you're no Borat." Perhaps not, but there's still plenty of laughs to be found.
07/17/09
It's a shallow and silly thing that has every right to exist but no profound purpose. It is just a $40 million practical joke, and like all practical jokes, it has at its core a hard kernel of cruelty.
07/17/09
The film's one authentic moment has him stalking Harrison Ford, who tells him in no uncertain terms where to go; frankly, I was with Ford.
07/17/09
The new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, "Bruno," really isn't a movie at all. Calling it one is sort of like calling mutton the new white meat.
07/16/09
Brüno is wall-to-wall jokes, but it never loses sight of its targets, which are many and in the end all-encompassing.
07/16/09
This film is probably yet another bit of fallout from that blight on civilization known as reality television. God help us all.
07/16/09
Let's just get this over with: This is the filthiest movie I've ever seen on the big screen.
07/15/09
I'm sure there are plenty of people who will find it offensive ... I was too busy laughing.
07/15/09
Mostly entertaining; but it's not very memorable, insightful, probing, or revolutionary.
07/15/09
While decidedly more secular--and bordering on the X-rated--Baron Cohen's flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista serves a Scripturally-prophetic function of sorts.
07/15/09
Even worse than I thought it would be
07/14/09
Brüno is hit or miss for its first half or so but picks up steam as it goes along.
07/13/09
For those willing to endure the shocks and actually think about them afterwards, the film's jokes work on multiple levels, although it is hard not to feel that there is some diminishing return this time around
07/13/09
Cohen probably did not consciously echo The Magic Christian, but he would have done well to learn from it.
07/13/09
Wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it.
07/13/09
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November 12, 2009:
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July 13, 2009:
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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
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