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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 533
Released: November 17, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show and Talladega Nights) brings you the comedy that has started more conversations, generated more controversy and dared to go further than ever before! As brüno travels the world in search of fame, everyone he encounters — celebrities, politicians, Hasidic Jews, terrorists and cage fighters — becomes a stepping-stone to stardom, with hilarious results! So prepare yourself for nonstop laughs in the film Peter Travers of Rolling Stone says should be “Numero uno on your funny-time list!”
Description of Bruno:
The brilliant British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen dips into his stable of pre-existing characters and comes up with a big-screen vehicle for Brüno, a gay Austrian fashionista. Brüno is blond, fame-hungry, and prone to wearing unexpected combinations of lederhosen and hot pants. But it's his runway disaster with an all-Velcro suit that gets him barred from the Milan fashion scene and leads to the cancellation of his TV show. ("For the second time in a century, Austria had turned on its most famous man," he complains.) Clearly, he needs to go to America and share his philosophy--or at least become a celebrity in whatever way possible. Brüno rolls out in a fashion similar to Borat, a combination of a scripted through-line interspersed with scenes of Baron Cohen improvising with people who don't realize they're being set up, Candid Camera-style. About half the time, this reaps some healthy laughs: a sequence with Brüno sitting down for a conversation with a "de-programmer" who claims to cure people of their homosexuality is on-topic, and there's a wild series of interviews with parents so desperate to get their kiddies into showbiz they'll agree to all manner of dangerous and irresponsible childcare. A lot of the humor isn't about Brüno's gayness at all; Baron Cohen is at his best when displaying freakish comic bravery (sitting across from a terrorist, he advises that "Your King Osama looks like a dirty wizard"). But the other half of Brüno simply misses the movie's best targets--homophobia and celebrity culture--by miscalculating the nature of ambush comedy. When Baron Cohen gets former Presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room and begins to undress, Paul isn't showing bigotry by storming out (except in his language); he's understandably reacting to obnoxious behavior in a supposedly professional situation. Too many set-ups fall short of the mother-lode pay dirt that Borat so frequently hit, leaving this a distinctly lesser item in the Baron Cohen portfolio. --Robert Horton
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Bruno Reviews:
Crazy funny! This guy is insanely hillarious. 
2009-11-28 - Not a movie for the cry baby type. This can be offensive to some who can't take a joke and have a closed mind to this particular type of comedy. Personally found this to be very entertaining besides being what it set out to be purposely, extremely FUNNY.
Wow, SBC Is "Gifted" 
2009-11-26 - If you find you're one of those people who sees a movie and then thinks, "It was OK but it needed more penis content" well, Bruno is the flick for you! Sure it may have set gays back twenty years with its stereotyping and sheer in your face offensiveness, but who can't sacrifice a little hard-gained dignity now and again for the sake of comedy? (Think Mel Brooks and Judaism here....oh, wait, Edie's yelling at me that Mel actually IS a Jew. Well, nevermind then.) All in all though, even hard core fans of SBC (so sue me, I don't feel like typing out the full name, y'ok?) have to acknowledge that this movie felt too staged, too set-up and polished to jerk the kinds of laughs from you that Borat and Ali G did when they got their shots at the big screen. Still Bruno was not without its moments. Watching the test audience for Bruno's TV pilot was worth a chuckle ("abort it!") and the dazed hostility of the drunken crowd of rural ladies and gents in the cage fight at the film's end more than made up for the plethora of lackluster scenes we had to sit through. So, see Bruno if you feel like. It's worth it. Plus you'll catch up on your on-screen penis quota.
Possibly the worst movie ever 
2009-11-26 - Save your money and your time. I get what he was trying to do, but I think all he managed to accomplish was to lower the bar for comedy.
Good rental movie....NOT worth buying
2009-11-25 - If you're a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen then this movie is certainly worth the $5 rental fee at Blockbuster, however I'm glad I rented it instead of buying because it wasn't nearly as funny as Borat was.
It definitely had a handful of funny moments but overall this was a disappointing follow up to Borat. Most of the scenes were clearly staged and the few non-staged scenes failed to draw any truly funny reactions from the bystanders, who merely sat there like mutes.
During his earlier skits on 'Da Ali G Show' the Bruno character was hiliarous because his mere appearance was enough to unsettle people and all he needed to do was insert a few odd comments and wait for the poor duped interviewee to provide all the humor by his reaction to Bruno. Unfortunately, it seems like the movie writers didn't have the patience for that so they just chose to bombard their victims with tons of male nudity, which resulted in most people just walking away in disgust rather than providing truly funny reactions.
Sexual Harrasment is not that funny
2009-11-25 - If you need to expose yourself in order to expose bigotry, you're really just provoking it. And thats all the Bruno character does. The movie tries to win a few laughs by trying to corner heterosexuals with an overdose of homosexuality. If you laughed at certain parts of this movie then you think sexual harrasment is funny. Poor taste, the movie is trash.
