ROTTEN TOMATOES: Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Goes to Kansas

Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Goes to Kansas

Wichita Mid-Continental Airport may never be the same.

by Jeff Giles | March 31, 2008

Just a few short years after baffling and enraging Middle Americans with Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen is back...as Bruno.

TheBadandUgly, reporting from the AP, notes that Cohen and crew have apparently surfaced in Kansas, where they caused a stir at the Wichita airport while filming scenes for their mockumentary about gay Austrian television personality Bruno (the film's rumored full title: Brüno: 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). From the article:

Officials at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport are rewriting their policy on commercial filming inside the terminal after a film crew stripped down and started dancing at the airport.

The crew had permission from the airport to film a scene on March 18 based on a "European man" visiting America.

But security workers became concerned when they began dancing in tight short shorts, kissing and fighting in the lobby.

Security couldn't find anything illegal about the performance, but asked the crew to leave.

Brad Christopher, assistant director of airport operations, says it won't be as easy to film at the airport in the future.

TheBadandUgly goes on to reference another article which claims the Bruno crew "disrupted an Easter play at a Kansas church by turning up in chains."

Source: TheBadandUgly

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Gimy writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:30 AM

publicity...thats all a film like this could ever want. i've only heard snippets about the character but seriously...Kansas? isn't that basically what Borat was about? making fun of white trash bigots? hopefully its an impossible to do impression(his character) because i got sick of people trying to do Borat...it was slightly more annoying than Napoleon Dynamite

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randal1013 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:39 AM

yeah this sounds like a redo of borat.

is sacha out of ideas already?

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donwillymo writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:55 AM

Probably won't do the same numbers that Borat did but will be close and with the same elements and humor of the first it will definitely be no. 1 at box office. Already has a cult following and an edgy controversial gay subject. Even if it seems like a redo of Borat, is that really a bad thing? It's like Mike Meyers with the austin powers persona that just always works.

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dahluzz writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:07 AM

the full title is absolutely ridiculous. but of course i will go to this and i will laugh.

when americans stop giving satirists this many reasons to make fun of their shortsightedness and fear of the unknown, they'll start catching some breaks. but as long as they remain flag-waving, ignorant bigots, they're too ripe for parody to pass up. i mean, i'm american, so i ecounter these sorts of people all the time.

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DanielLee8793 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:16 AM

What are you guys talking about?

This Character, Borat, and Ali G are all on one show. No character came first.

This is his schtick to do comedy like this. Its hillarious if you ever watched the show on HBO.

I will be waiting to see this it looks great.

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frogleg writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:42 AM

Exactly. It's not a redo of Borat. It's a character that ran simultaneously with Borat. I even thought Bruno was funnier, most of the time.

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Siebener writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:45 AM

i always likes bruno a lot better than borat, and think, that it's a completely different kind of humor.

whilst borat is all about embarassing people, bruno is more about provoking statements. my favourite scene was, when he asked some fashion-designer (if i remember correctly): "last years in-religion was buddhism, what would you say is this months in-religion?"

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insanemansam5 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:50 AM

Uhh...doesn't reporting on where the cast is undermine the purpose of the film. Isn't the point that Cohen was supposed to be trying convince people he's someone else? That's probably kind of hard to when what you're being reported on.

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insanemansam5 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:52 AM

to do when you're being reported on*

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arendr writes:
on Mar 31 2008 08:31 AM

If anyone wants to see the scene in question:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=X705bSPTNPQ

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Lance from FilmDrunk writes:
on Mar 31 2008 09:01 AM

I found this three days before that BadandUgly article you listed as a source - they probably got it from me and didn't cite me.

Check it:
http://filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1405

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Mar 31 2008 10:17 AM

This won't do anywhere near as well as Borat. Some people will feel threatened by Bruno, wheras Borat was a clown to laugh at, and laugh at those around him. The majority of Americen men can't handle a whole "gay" film. I remember some people being sickened by the end make-out scene of Talladega Nights.

I predict it'll do fairly well the first week, and then plummet.

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donwillymo writes:
on Mar 31 2008 10:33 AM

Yeah but its one thing when you know Cohen is not really gay as opposed to if he really was. Men are going into that theater knowing that he's not really gay but acting it like a 'clown'. Being that Cohen hasn't really dropped anything like this since Borat, I think it should do very well. It's not like a gay porn film or anything but like a funny gay film like the Jackass crew would do.

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duckmanx88 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 10:41 AM

running out of ideas? i don't think so. we've only been exposed to him commercially(in theatres) with borat. how would you say he's running out of ideas? anyway i love how he exposes the hicks in kansas.

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arendr writes:
on Mar 31 2008 11:18 AM

In reply to this comment (#1662532)
And how many men sat through the naked wrestling scene in Borat?

Like 8 billion.

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Mar 31 2008 11:59 AM

If the wrestling scene was 1 1/2 hours long, how many men would sit through it? Probably about 10%.

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Elixor writes:
on Mar 31 2008 12:00 PM

I agree that Bruno was a funnier character on the HBO show. I was hoping and am glad that he's doing a movie on Bruno next. I wish that he would've just done Bruno first so that he could've pulled this off better on more Americans and the fashion industry here. This has potential to be just hilarious.

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Darkness My Old Friend writes:
on Mar 31 2008 12:29 PM

The problem is the best parts of Bruno were when he was tearing it up with the fashionistas and celebs in places like LA and Miami. He probably can't do that anymore because of the exposure. That's what he really was amazing at satirizing.

And I'm afraid to say, but in response to the first poster, yes, Bruno is very easy to imitate. Get ready for the rain of bad impersonations.

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bat-fink writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:04 PM

Funniest Bruno skit i saw was when he interviewed a buch of American Jock wannabe wrestlers. He got them to Woop and cheer as loud as they could, then got them to expose n flex muscles, then he wrestled them. Just as he got em all riled up into a wooping frenzy. He pulled out the mike and announced it was for german gay tv. I thought there was gonna be bloodshed.

Based on that, this film could be hillarious. Borat is my favorite character he did, but Ali G, funny at first but he took it too far like little britain did.

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jmo2ski writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:10 PM

Would any males go and see this?

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