Comments on: Bruno Review

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:47 +0000

Disgusting, revolting. It insulted my intelligence. Worse movie ever.

By: Goon

Goon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:11:49 +0000

^Okay, who let the youtube comments out of their cage?

By: watch astro boy

watch astro boy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:05:01 +0000

i bet Astro Boy will be better then Bruno. That’s how bad it was a movie.

By: bowspearer

bowspearer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:03:02 +0000

I honestly thought the film was a victim of its own satirical style. As per usual, Sasha Baron Cohen has done a brilliant job of satirising his target (in this case Hollywood) and has pushed the envelope yet again in terms of shock value and satire, which actually works against it.

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.

By: Tim1974

Tim1974 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:51:08 +0000

KRunning- Why should I have to go to porno to see equality when females are given that in mainstream films and on the big screen ? It is a blatant double standard.

By: Keisho Afri

Keisho Afri — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:30:08 +0000

give me fame <333

By: Wintle

Wintle — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Finally caught Bruno and thought it was miles better than Borat.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:34:41 +0000

BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Waste of my my time!!!

By: meh

meh — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:33:06 +0000

Im a 13 year old and i saw this movie. I personally thought Bruno was pretty funny, but not as much as Borat. There was some strange scenes, but I still laughed at some of the jokes.

By: K.Running

K.Running — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:04:39 +0000

I liked Borat more than Brüno. It is basically the same movie with a different character. A couple of the scenes was hillarious especially the talkshow, but as a whole it was not all that imo. Was a little hard to watch some of the scences, embarassing stuff for sure. But i have no idea why some are offended by a penis etc on the big screen though. Go watch the news if you want something significant to complain about.

Btw Tim, If you so desperatly want equal male/female nudity go watch some (straight) porn.

By: J.Offerman

J.Offerman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:12:03 +0000

In Borat the arrows were often pointed at Jews but knowing that Cohen is Jewish himself that turned it into irony & satire.

It is a bit too easy to base a movie entirely on homophobic jokes. You’ll have (some) people laugh and it will provoke reaction. But it just seems to be a cheap trick to provoke that over other people’s back.
Especially since Cohen isn’t directing the jokes at himself indirectly this time.

By: Gustafo Pung

Gustafo Pung — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:16:02 +0000

This movie is rated ´11´ in Sweden which means any kid over 11 can go and see this movie by themselves. Younger than 11 needs to be accompanied by mom and dad.
This might seem shocking to people easily offended but swedish children get a proper sex education in school and the sight of a penis is not considered so terribly shocking that it might scar an 11 year old for life. Violence in movies are considered a much bigger issue than a glimpse of a tit, a butt, a penis or a joke of a sexual nature. Any hardcore sex in a movie and its rated `15´ which means noone under 15 allowed not even accompanied by parents.