Bruno

Bruno
2009
Directed By Larry Charles



SYNOPSIS

Gay Austrian fashion star Bruno (Sasha Baron Cohen) decides he will become the biggest star in the world and heads to Hollywood.



MY THOUGHTS

Sasha Baron Cohen's previous film Borat was an inventive and fresh, mixing gross out and offensive humor with a incisive look at American culture and how outsiders are treated.

Much of the humor in "Borat" was all about riling up Americans and capturing their overreactions to Borat's outrageous antics.

Bruno (the character) should be even more polarizing (because of his homosexuality) and therefore even funnier than Borat.... but he's not... and neither is the film.
Borat was clueless and naive but Bruno always knows what he's doing and he's callous, so the audience definitely has a much harder time rooting for Bruno.

Bruno (the film) follows nearly the exact same format that Borat did, and it's not fresh at all the second time around.

There are a few hilarious sequences, like the Texas talk show where Bruno introduces his new black baby, OJ... or interviews a terrorist in the Middle East and tells the man that Osama Bin Laden looks like a homeless Santa Claus. These scenes are far and few between.

The scripted 'dramatic' scenes between Bruno and his assistant Lutz seem overly amateur and aren't even soap opera-level quality.

This film pales in every aspect compared to the far superior Borat. Skip it and re-watch Borat.