Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jul 10 '09
Pros: Cohen's "Bruno" is a hoot and his writing is funny and outrageous
Cons: Too much of the same theme
Summary: I have to admit it. I'm a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen. I loved "Borat" and the "Da Ali G. Show." So, even though it meant that I had to stay up to the wee hours of the morning, I went to the midnight showing of "Bruno". Once ...
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Sep 16 '09
Pros: About 1 minute of dialogue early on in the film when Bruno was talking backstage.
Cons: as mentioned above, the movie went for "shock value" over any comedic merits.
Summary: I was dissappointed by this. SBC came to Aust on a promo tour to promote this movie and in interviews he was in character as Bruno of course and was hilarious. Very clever, quick and off the cuff with the media. The movie was not like this. For about the ...
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Aug 18 '09
Pros: cohen is sensational, borat eat your heart out!
Cons: none!!
Summary: I had been eagerly anticipating this films release and early promotional shots of the film only hieghtened my excitement. With the huge worldwide success of its predecessor Borat,Sacha Baron Cohen had to pull something truly senasational out of the hat ...
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Jul 28 '09
Pros: Slapstick, over-the-top, typical Cohen comedy
Cons: Definitely Rated R, often controversial, too much for some
Summary: In his latest effort, Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen proves that he’s indeed the only person alive who can make a living by turning obscure ideas into gold. Following 2006’s cultural hit — Borat — Cohen was well ...
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Jul 20 '09
Pros: Very good at times, Cohen is a comic genius
Cons: Tries for shock laughs more than anything, message gets muddled, awkward
Summary: There is a sequence fairly early on in Bruno where a montage of sexcapades displays the sum total of the Austrian fashion icon's relationship with a significantly smaller Asian man/boy. Dark boxes cover up the main areas of activity, but ...
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Jul 16 '09
Pros: Great Positive Message about acceptance, Some hilarious scenes
Cons: A bit dry, Slow paced, Previews ruined it
Summary: Sasha Cohen makes me laugh so hard, that I've worried about breaking a rib. His Da Ali G Show is one of the funniest productions, which is what inspired Borat and Bruno. He is a person who's not afraid to be controversial, and his ...
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Jul 15 '09
Pros: Incredibly funny
Cons: Recycling of Borat, one note joke
Summary: He’s a gay Austrian fashionista, host of the TV show “Funkyzeit mit Brüno.” He’s also the fictitious third character of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show. To the more knowing he has become a cultural icon. To the less ...
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Jul 15 '09
Pros: Same premise as Bruno, plenty of laughs, tighter comedy scenes
Cons: I'm expecting the shocks, not as funny as Borat, far too much penis
Summary: It's not too often that a movie can polarize audiences like Bruno has, which is essentially a retread of Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy schtick but with a different character with the same concept. Whereas Borat had Cohen playing a Middle Eastern TV ...
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Jul 14 '09
Pros: Better than Ali G in Da House. You'll probably laugh a lot.
Cons: Unfortunately it's not nearly as good as Borat.
Summary: I was hoping British Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was interested in more than merely repeating himself with Bruno the latest feature length movie to come out of Cohen's Da Ali G Show (that splashed big on HBO a few years ago).After ...
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Jul 12 '09
Pros: Funny, shocking, tells us a lot about ourselves
Cons: Meant to shock more than make us laugh
Summary: Remember how, after Sacha Baron Cohen made Borat, people everywhere said there's no way he would ever get away with making a sequel or a similar movie like that again? Well, here we have Bruno confirming that Sacha Baron Cohen has managed to get away ...
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Jul 12 '09
Pros: Several very funny scenes
Cons: Bruno is more or less a one trick pony
Summary: I've got to admit that Bruno was perhaps the movie I was most looking forward to this summer. Having immensely enjoyed TV's Da Ali G Show and laughing my _ass off at 2006's Borat, I was expecting yet another completely ...
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Jul 11 '09
Pros: none
Cons: crude, offensive, graphic, lacking in a decent joke
Summary: According to Rotten Tomatoes, 70% of the critics who saw this film liked it enough to give it a thumbs-up. That includes Roger Ebert, who didn't get Memento, hated Gladiator (before it won Best Picture) and thought Julia Roberts' performance in ...
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Jul 11 '09
Pros: Some humor?
Cons: It's like a 2 hour long shock site viewing.
Summary: Ok, looking back on Cohen’s previous films – I thought I was going to get some actual humor. I actually found the HBO series version of Bruno funny. I’m writing from the viewpoint of a disappointed fan. At about 15 minutes ...
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Jul 11 '09
Pros: Funny as heck
Cons: Not a unified piece
Summary: Sacha Baron Cohen & Larry Charles' new film Bruno is already elciting a wide range of opinions. Some think it is just offensive, others find it simply funny and its critics uptight. The majority of observers seem to agree that it ...
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Jul 10 '09
Pros: Outrageously funny
Cons: Highly Offensive, Extreme Vulgarity
Summary: Sacha Baron Cohen has put audiences through the most uncomfortable movies starting with of course Ali G Indahouse, which came out in 2002 and then with Borat in 2006. Cohen stars as his gay Austrian ...
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