Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality. Brüno goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires. I watched the trailers and thought they were incredibly funny. But the problem was he didn't expose any under-the-surface bigotry like he did in Borat. I am gay, I love Cohen, and was ready to laugh.
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Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Brüno's greatness. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. So yes, the film is shocking and pushes the boundaries again quite a bit further. If you are easily offended, you will be offended. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires.
But not so much in Bruno: cheap shock effect and trying to heap even more embarrassment on his victims appear to have been the main recipes of the film. Porn scenes with a pygmy flight attendant, overacted dancing, a swinging penis didn't we see that in EuroTrash yeeeears ago? Essentially, this time the shock effect is moved from the 'random' people that appear in the movie, to the audience looking at the movie. For those that have seen Borat: you probably know what to expect. But that in itself isn't enough to make it a good film. Like Borat, all of the genuine laughs are in everyday peoples reactions, rather than the poorly structured story or scripted scenes. That said, it was a challenge of how much one could handle, and I wouldn't have minded if they had left out a particular full frontal shot of the male anatomy spinning around an image that will stay with me for some time and probably haunt my dreams.
Then the movie took it 2 steps further than anything I had prepared myself for. It doesn't even work anymore: he's now so ridiculous that everyone storms out within the first minute. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires. He has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. The humour in the film is clearly that of in-your-face slapstick, however given the extremes the film goes to, it's all relatively entertaining. Bad acting and a terrible story line remain bad acting and a terrible storyline, even if it has been done on purpose of which I am not even certain. Still, confrontations with a number of people, among which a few famous ones, seem sincere, and work on multiple levels, as in Borat.
I expected there to be a high level of gay and crude sexual jokes in this latest Sacha Baron Cohen adventure. It should therefore not come as a surprise that the movie contains substantially less confrontations between the main character and innocent famous bystanders. And yes, it ridicules our society's obsession with celebrity status. Ob mit einem Guerilla-Auftritt im Klettkostüm bei einer Modenschau in Mailand, ob mit kruden Auftritten und Reality-Reportagen oder eben mit seinem schwarzen Adoptivbaby, das man als angesagter Star einfach dabeihaben muss. There were also some genuine bigots in the film, but Cohen goes to such an extreme to provoke them, by the time it gets to that point, who cares? This Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.
If you do go, be prepared for disappointment, lots of cringing and the hohoho-type nervous laughter of embarrassment. In any case, it gives the film the doubtful qualities of a cheap 70s porn film. It contains only links to the third party hosting websites such as Vodlocker, Youtube, Putlocker, Novamov, Nowvideo, Sockshare, Billionuploads, Allmyvideos, Sharesix, Megavideo, Gorillavid, Thefile, MovShare, Muchshare, Mightyupload, Clicktowatch, Bestreams, Vidzi, Flashx, DivxStage, Promptfile, Videoweed, ShareRepo, Vidbux, Vidbull, Vidto, Nosvideo, Movreel, Youwatch, Videomega, Picasa, Videozed and many more. There were funny moments, of course, Cohen is a funny man, but this movie lacks the bite Borat had. This was just an exercise in bad taste which is fine, if that's what you're looking for. All I know is that I laughed a lot during this movie.
Go see it with a few mates or drinking buddies and have fun, though you may exit the cinema a little more disturbed than when you went in. Mit hartgesottener Arglosigkeit sucht Brüno ungeniert nach Spaß und sorgt für Aufruhr, wo auch immer er hinkommt. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. Brüno goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Brüno's greatness. It's not a movie I could really get 'comfortable' with watching, seeing all hell unravel in a variety of situations one after another with very little in the way of breaks, but time did go by relatively quickly, which helps given the intensity of the scenes.