Bruno

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Bruno

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Director

Dan Mazer

Starring

Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander von Roon, Alice Evans, Ben Youcef, Sandra Seeling, Trishelle Cannatella

Producer

runtime

mins

language

English

Prequels

Sequels

Taglines:

• Borat was so 2006

Synopsis

Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.

Review

Anyone expecting the Borat level of shock-factor will be in for a surprise as Bruno goes far beyond the standard of taste that film stayed within! Outrageously funny from the start, it early on sets the level of shock with a brief series of scenes of the sex acts he gets up to with his young companion. It is truely a film where you laugh whilst also knowing that, perhaps, you shouldn't really find it funny. But there is one slight flaw in the film...

You can tell that much more of it was scripted than the antics in Borat, with the real-life moments being scattered a bit thinner this time. This is likely down to how high-profile Baron-Cohen has become over the past few years, that even under his various disguises he is recognisable. It becomes apparant throughout the film that, as genius as this type of stunt-filmmaking is, Cohen will be unlikely to craft a new creation to run the same kind of faux-documentary as Borat, Ali G, and Bruno have done in various films and TV shows. Perhaps it is as well, as there is no way he could top the antics in Bruno without finding himself shot or stabbed by an angry mid-American mob (seriously, watch the reaction at the cage match and then go read up on it online).

Regardless of this slight quibble (and can something being written to be funny really be considered a bad thing?) Bruno is hilariously funny, shockingly in bad taste, and disgustingly over-the-top. About half way into the film we get a scene of what can only be described as a dancing & talking penis. If you are not laughing by this point, just give up and go watch something else as it is obvious the film is not for you.

Trivia

• In October 2006, entertainment blog website Defamer.com jokingly reported the title would be "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt". Numerous websites around the world - including IMDb - reported this to be the actual working title.
• Originally got a NC-17 rating from the MPAA, but after Sacha Baron Cohen re-edited it it received an R.
• Sacha Baron Cohen worked out, shaved all of his body hair and got his hair done in order to be Bruno.

External links

|IMDB Page

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