Bruno

Coming into this movie I expected to have a Borat feeling. Even though, Bruno was my least favorite of the three Sacha Baron Cohen characters. I was completely excited, and watched Borat again just before I went to go see Bruno. While watching Borat, I realized that I had seen it too much, and it was over played. The jokes didn't have the same effects they did when the movie first came out. I ignored this.

However, it lingered over. There was more shock in Bruno than in Borat, but the same played out theme of making people feel uncomfortable. Taking that thought out of my head, the movie held up on its own. I think a lot of people are just too grossed out to see "pornographic images" (not really) unless its a girl or its in a very artsy movie. Also, people tend to feel uncomfortable around homoerotic humor. Hey, its their taste.

I'm not going to go into the plot, but it basically was an 18 year old Austrian named Bruno coming to the United States to try to become famous, any way he can.

Plusses

• Sacha Baron Cohen is brilliant and funny
• well timed stunts/acts

Minuses

• Borat came out years earlier
• everything was overdone and repetitive, plus commerical didn't help spoiling it

I think this is the end for Cohen's characters. He's a risk taker and will make money especially on this DVD, but the movie has to be considered a flop.

I rate this movie 6.3 out of 10.