Bruno Movie Review

Before I go on I must admit I have seen this movie twice over the last three days since its release. The first time I saw it I didn’t enjoy it, I wasn’t sure if it was down to high expectations, or just the fact it was rubbish. But, after seeing it a second time I understand what I hated on my first viewing.
It was the annoying group of people sitting near me who talked over the whole movie, screaming out what was basically on the screen as if they had been hired to give a running commentary over the movie. It got to the point where I hoped the film would end quickly so I could leave.
Luckily I went to see it again and I loved it. But, if I see those annoying people in the cinema again I will, on no un certain terms, set fire to the shits.

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Borat has to be one of the funniest, most cleverest movies of all time. I saw Borat in the cinema on my own. There was one other person in the screen (who sat a little to close to me for my liking, but at least HE DIDN’T TALK while the movie was on…no, he was a good boy). I was, at the time, not a huge fan of Ali G and showed no interest in seeing the movie. But, while I waited for my girlfriend to finish work I went and saw the only film that was on at the time that would fit in with her finishing.
It was brilliant. Made better for the low expectations.
Sasha Baron Cohen was a genius. Since then I watched all the Ali G shows and loved them. Cohen picks of the stupid and self righteous and destroys them without them even knowing.
It’s all done as a spoof documentary. So, the people he interviews (while working through a plot) believe Borat, Bruno, Ali G are real people and don’t think they are being set up.
As Borat, in the film of the same name he goes in to a gun shop in America and asks the owner ‘what is the best gun to kill a Jew?’
The gun shop owner doesn’t batter an eye lid and shows him a gun which he describes as perfect for killing Jews.

It’s, for some, hard to watch, but if you can stick with it you will see that it is entertaining as it is teaching. Sure, it has gross out moments and it’s very silly but, it shows up the people in this world who believe strongly in things us ‘normal’ people deem wrong.

Bruno first saw light in the Ali G show where he danced next to some sexy cheerleaders at a sports match in Alabama. The men watching stood and stared as a gay man danced. They boo’ed, spat at and chased.

The main point about these movies is just how clever Cohen is being. First up if I didn’t know better I wouldn’t know Ali G

Borat

and Bruno

are played by the same person. They look so different and sound so different and it’s easy to see how people play in to their every words.
In a world where Gervais, Mitchell and Webb, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson etc play and look the same in every part they do it’s nice to see a comedy star make an effort.
Ronnie Barker became Fletcer and Arcwright with ease and looked so different and acted so different. The same with Steve Coogan in Partridge or the calf family.

The film flows along at a quick pace. The scenes I won’t spoil, though the cage fighting at the end is brilliant and should have you in floods of tears. Or the part where he tells a terrorist his leader Osama looks like a dirty wizard, it’s just balls out humour that shows people for who they are.
When he tells a women he wants to uses her child in an ad campaign, she agrees. When he says he wants to dress her child as a Nazi pushing a Jew in to an oven, she agrees (just so her daughter becomes famous)

The problem with this movie lies with the main character. Ali G was an idiot, he would get his words wrong, he loved his gran and his Juile and you loved him for that.
Borat was child like and in awe at what he was seeing so you didn’t mind when he did something shocking.
You loved him for it.
Bruno on the other hand has one main goal and that is to be famous. In the movie he tries to make a sex tape just to be famous, he chats to the stars, he starts a fight, he buys a black baby, all to get famous and in a world of Paris Hilton etc it’s sick to see.

But, when Bruno is not trying to be famous, and when he is trying to become straight that is when the movie comes alive. When he goes shooting with a group of hunters and crawls in to one of their tents naked is over the top and very funny.
Or when he interviews a certain Amercian Idol judge who says she 'loves human rights' while she sits on a chair Bruno has given her which is a real life Mexican man.
I won’t give the rest away as it is a shocking movie you have to see.

Brilliant.

8/10

Not quite as good as Borat, and not as funny as The Hangover.