fuck off, Tim. you had your chance and you gobbled its balls.

Before you watch a movie, you need to read some reviews.

I anticipating seeing dildos and Bruno dicks.

When the scene appeared, I was shocked at first, but then I was hysterically laughing.

Whereas Borat took the same tactic but managed to recognise lines of decency in the average person, Bruno tends to ignore them completely, meaning that in cases like with the hunting party you cannot help but find hllarious, but then you have cases like the Milli Vanilla astral blowjob that are an even bigger train wreck than a Jerry Springer show (can’t bring yourself to watch but can’t look away either).

Unfortunately unlike Borat, the enjoyability of the film suffers. People who found Borat funny (to the point of even buying the special edition complete with mankini) for the reasons of the style of satire are just as likely to find the humour in this sporadic- where one minute you’re in stiches, and the next minute you’re cringing and on the verge of walking out of the cinema.

If Sasha Baron Cohen was to take any lessons from Borat and Bruno, it would be that for all his brilliance in researching a target for his satires, he’s failed to recognise just how far to push the envelope in terms of how far to push the boundaries of peoples’ comfort zones. Shocking people has always been a fundamental part of satire, but the thing is that if people are shocked too much, they switch off and the underlying satirical message gets lost. The trick that he needs to learn is to gauge where the line is that that will take place with each gag, and get as close as possible to it, while not crossing it.

Hopefully in his third film, this is something Cohen will recognise to give people something that even tops Borat. While I’d happily give Borat 4/5, the best I find myself rating Bruno at is 2.5/5- it has it’s moments, but there’s so many misgauged shock gags in there, that many people who enjoyed Borat will find themselves constantly cringing through and resisting the strong urge to switch off the DVD player throughout each viewing of it.