Bruno Details

bruno

this looks better than borat

[Highly rated reviewer]

Shockingly funny

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.