Saturday, July 11, 2009

Brüno



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This movie is really offensive. In fact I can't even talk about this movie without being more explicit than usual. If you have trouble with that, then this movie is certainly not for you.
Plot: There is barely a plot in Bruno, but briefly a gay Austrian talk show host comes to America to become famous. When he is in the US, he takes up schemes to gain fame. He tries [SPOILERS] a talk show, adopting an African child, solving the Middle-East crisis, and becoming straight. There are endless gay sex jokes and simulated sex. There is, unforgettably, a dancing & talking penis; as well as pantomimed sex with an invisible ghost.
Review: This movie is impossible to review. Only people that LOVED Borat should even consider this movie, because it has double the gross-out sex humor and half the political satire. It is just as funny, and farther out on the frontier between tasteless and hilarious. Some of the funnier parts are the reactions of the bystanders to Bruno, for example in the talk show with his adopted baby. It is impossible to know which of the scenes are staged and which are real, and guessing is part of the fun.


Like Austin Power's, Bruno breaks out of its storyline to satirize American life generally like celebrity adoptions and stage Moms.


Cast and crew: Sasha Baron Cohen, Gustof Hamerstein; directed by Larry Charles.
Rating: 2.0 flasks; It is three flasks of funny, but loses 1 flask because it is extremely tasteless.

My wife, who loved Borat, thought the Swinger's party was too much, and did not like the movie.
More: Unreviewable. It is outrageous, but it is also a parity of outrageous movies. It is quite piece of work, but it hard to know what to make of it.



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