alright who is checking this out? I cant wait i will try to see it tomorrow but more than likely Saturday or Sunday. I was a big fan of Borat so we will see what he comes up with this time

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not as much as borat...but it was funny.

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I meant to post a comment last night after the midnight screening.

First of all, this is gonna be another big hit for Cohen. Showings were sold out all over Chitown...I had to go to the South Suburbs of Chicago and there were still sold out shows. However, one theater added another midnight showing that sold out as well, but we still got tickets.

Anyway, I went with the flu and all and still laughed my ass off.

Not as funny or shocking as Borat because you kinda know what to expect coming into this. Also, there were a few moments that were obviously staged to move along the lil plot that was there.

Yet, it was still funny as hell...I may have laughed more watching this than "The Hangover".

Cohen is wild for this...I questioned his manhood a lil after this flick...he went all out. He earned his pay on this one.

Him and his lil asian boyfriend in the room at the beginning...WOW! The television show pilot test...WHOA!

there are only so many "gay" jokes to be made before it just gets redundant -- which was about 5 minutes in.

Bruno is just not as good a character as Borat. secondly, they shot the first 2/3 of the movie as an actual movie -- multiple cameras in staged close-ups, careful framing, elaborate sets. that basically kills the entire premise of Cohen's act, making it just a story about a obscene character.

the last half hour where he interacts with the deep south was redeeming -- the reactions and shooting seemed more real -- but not enough to make this worth anymore than a rental.

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Yeah...I feel you on many of these observations.

However, you can't front...still funny in lots of parts.

And Cohen is still one of the more funnier character actor/comedians out there. He'll make a ton of dough on this and keep it movin' to anything else he wants to do.

*these* types of movies is closed. not his career overall.

he's done pop culture caricature, foreigner and gay -- what'd be next, fat suit? Ali G and Borat were gold, but fleshing out "must see" personas for more feature films is going to be impossible. Bruno was a miss for me and became too reliant on the grotesque limits of gay jokes.

also, Cohen's notoriety for making these films is limiting the surprise element (which is the crux of all the humor). they were obviously pressing this time, forced to manipulate scenes in an effort to one-up themselves. it makes sense that the deepest country recesses of the south were his only unsuspecting victims, as Borat was probably never shown in their 60-seat theater to begin with.

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into doing interviews with him, so they had to make up for that by going as extreme as possible with more physical stuff.. "LOOK HOW GAY THIS GUY IS!"


too much of the humor was just forced and not what made this character funny on Da Ali G Show.. so much funnier on the show..

a lot of the movie seemed ridiculously staged too, ah well - i think many of us knew it coming in


a lot of the crowd seemed to eat this shit up though, so i guess he did what he set out to do -- the hardest we laughed was at the shit that not many others laughed at

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I laughed my ass off, not as funny as borat though. He is gonna die one day cause of this shit

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This will be tha last of these types of movies for him IM sure.. He's made movies for ALL three characters from tha Ali G show.. The Ali G movie was terrible BTW..


Cant wait to see this.

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The movie exploits the world's status of homophobia very well. People in some are still trapped in the 1960's in the U.S. and the film pokes fun at people in south's ignorance towards gays.

I thought the film was over the top at some times but it was all hilarious...

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I agree with Longo that only the last 25 minutes or so really contained any satire. In this respect I think Bruno the TV character was better at capturing people's homophobia. I don't think Ron Paul getting freaked out was so much Ron Paul being an out and out homophobe as much as Ron Paul not liking to be creeped out by strangers. And while the Meatspin montage/talking dick and the simulated fellatio was hilarious, its more bizarre absurdist WTF humor than skewering anything.

Overall, some very funny moments, and worth my 83 minutes, but Bruno isn't as strong a character as Borat or Ali G, and I'm happy I caught it at matinee prices.

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I might've been spacing out when that happened because I don't recall it.

fetus (I forgot whom exactly) and she said it should be aborted because it "looked retarded"

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it had some great borat like segments like the hunting scene, the gay reformer pastor, and interviewing the parents of the photo babies.
but it also had over the top dick jokes like indahouse

I thought it was brilliant...Borat was better, but had the advantage of timing with the war on terror.

That UFC scene was the funniest shit I've ever seen....especially the slow-mo clip of the redneck fan crying. I couldn't breath I was laughing so hard. hohoho.

How did he do that?....there were people wearing t-shirts that had his character's name on them. (Straight dave) They probly spent most of the budget on the fake promotion and staging of that scene.

>How did he do that?....there were people wearing t-shirts that
>had his character's name on them. (Straight dave) They probly
>spent most of the budget on the fake promotion and staging of
>that scene.

I think he was throwing out t-shirts to the crowd

Inconsistent and all over the place for in the first half of the movie.

I agree it finally found its footing in the last 1/2 hr. It was so over the top in the beginning and genuinely shocking but not humorous. A lot of the early scenes felt pointless.

I mean I understood the satire he was trying to achieve initially but the execution was off. At 82 minutes it felt long...nowhere near as good as Borat. I think Bruno as a character probably only works in short sketches like on the tv show.

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the scenes are not funny, they're AWKWARD, and you get beat senseless with bad gay jokes.

I laughed ONCE the entire movie....when he needed help cancelling Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

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