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Reviews Counted:210
Fresh:141
Rotten:69
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Crude and offensive, but with ample cultural insights and gut-busting laughs, Bruno is another outlandish and entertaining mockumentary from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Theatrical Release:Jul 10, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $59,992,760
Synopsis: After BORAT took over America in 2006, another Sacha Baron Cohen creation arrives on the big screen. In BRUNO, the gay Austrian model of the title brings his antics to the States.
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Those who last beyond the first few minutes will be treated to a film that's more focused than Borat, with more jokes, less fluff, and enough social awareness to step on some toes. And it saves the best stunt for last.
The way the film exposes, tries, convicts, and administers punishment to homophobes - through humor rather than preachiness - had me laughing for 82 straight minutes.
A sporadically funny comedy that often shocks and disgusts, but falls flat with tedious and lazy humor.
Jive-talking robots and Ben Stiller 'going full retard' be damned. Brüno is easily one of the most offensive films in years, and that is what makes it awesome.
a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter.
There's good bad taste and then there's just plain bad bad, which is what describes most of Brüno.
Some of the scenes do beg the question of if they were staged or not, but after the first ten minutes or so you're laughing too hard to really care.
Baron Cohen's instincts for outrage are spot on. It's not insight we need at all right now, but a very sharp bonk on the head.
Simultaneously funny, infuriating, daring, cruel and tasteless.
Even if this is the end, we must applaud his audacity, even if we can't always bear to watch it in action. Is this comedic genius? As Brüno would say: Ich think so.
Most of it is inspired silliness.
It's a thing , not a movie -- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.
Top CriticMore gut-bustingly funny than anything else out there right now.
Top CriticOutrageous, unnerving, brave, topical, revealing, appalling and consistently hilarious, Brüno manages to be both cutting-edge cultural commentary and post-modern comic genius.
All the cautions and qualifications in the world are blasted out of your head by some of the film's astoundingly hilarious ideas and sequences.
A crude, cringe-worthy, and intermittently funny affair that triggers the gag reflex.
Top CriticNot all of the jokes are complex, or smug. Some follow the pure, simple slapstick route to the belly laugh, and there are enough of those to please many Cohen fans.
For all his idiocy, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev was a more likable jester than Brüno, who is the sum of his nether parts. One is a naif in a strange land. One is a jerk no matter where he travels.
Cohen has come up with some marvelous satirical motifs; elsewhere, he's just showing how far he'll go to get a laugh.
Top CriticIt's an odd cop-out for so fiercely gifted a comedian.... This is not a man who is doomed to be Allen Funt, or for that matter, Ashton Kutcher. He doesn't need to rely on the easy titillations and voyeuristic pull of reality TV.
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November 12, 2009:
RT on DVD: Wassup, Bruno
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July 13, 2009:
Bruno 'terrorist' threatens to sue Sacha Baron Cohen 
Ayman Abu Aita, the so-called 'terroist leader' interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen in Bruno, claims he was duped by the star -- and is now threatening to sue the filmmakers. More...
July 12, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Brüno Struts To The Top Spot
Sacha Baron Cohen scored another number one hit with his latest shockfest comedy Brüno which opened atop the North American box office bumping two-time champ Transformers:... More...
July 09, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified Fresh
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