Sasha Baron Cohen's "Bruno": First Reviews
Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen's cinematic object of gay panic, premiered last night in London, and the early reviews are in. How is it?
- "Sacha Baron Cohen and his wicked comic cohorts have produced a film that is funnier, more offensive, and more outrageous than Borat and the collected output of Ali G put together."
- "Sometimes you question whether he has finally crossed the line into offensive bad taste – and, latterly, whether you were right to laugh at it – but the audience all seemed to guffaw and groan in the right places. They even gasped in horror when they were supposed to."
- "And here lies a warning – the pygmy sex scene is one of the most horrific incidents ever committed to celluloid. I'm talking fire extinguishers, champagne bottles and mechanically adapted fitness equipment. Teenage boys should under no circumstances watch this with their parents."
- "Brüno is funniest, though, when it's at its most politically incorrect, especially when it comes to homosexuality. There's an eye-popping montage of extreme gay sex practices (imaginary, one hopes), a surfeit of waving penises, dildos, fetish gear, anal bleaching, and an excruciating mime in which Brüno fellates the ghost of a deceased member of Milli Vanilli in front of a psychic."
Oh, I am so totally there.
Perhaps the blow-by-blow headline from the previous article is a more appropriate headline for this one.
Blame it on the rain.
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me too
R-e-s-t-e-c-p.
I like this movie umlaut.
My brothers and I have finally arrived at the party:
Bad homo behavior in the extreme. Our time has come–usually we have to groan through the extreme bad hetero behavior of movies like "The Hangover" or "Braveheart".
I for one am looking forward to a night of absolutely no apologies. And a sh8t load of laughs.
Where I am this movie will be classified as a documentary.
The "fellating the ghost of a deceased member of Milli Vanilli" thing is getting a little old, isn't it?
Yep. Time to move on to Vanilla Ice.
"Sometimes you question whether he has finally crossed the line into offensive bad taste – and, latterly, whether you were right to laugh at it – but the audience all seemed to guffaw and groan in the right places."
I thought offensive bad taste was the point?