ok, i saw bruno.... i guess i had to for anthropological reasons, or it was my day off... i was hot & tired etc..
here's what i thought-
i was disappointed that michael jackson's fans could not get to his star on the hollywood walk of fame, because bruno had his red carpet draped over it, near he chinese theatre. bad omen to have premiere the day of the king of pop's death.
the film for the most part just isn't that funny. it's dullard, frat boy humor, like a slightly, (just slightly) more enlighten jackass. the days of the liberace/richard simmons gay clowns are over. richard simmons is funnier when he's making fun of himself. check him out on WHO'S LINE IS IT ANYWAY?- HILARIOUS.
bruno is more successful when it's subtle. during the hunting scene when bruno comments to three snaggletoothed NRA devotees, "we're so much like the sex in the city girls!" then silence... long silence.. very uncomfortable silence. that's funny! cut. that all you need.. instead sacha baron cohen stretches it out and adds a totally pointless nude scene of himself trying to enter one of the hunter's tents. so what? the reaction of the guy getting pissed off and swatting the camera is a surprise? grow up.
the black baby scene is funny, as a one time shock value.. but don't draw it out. same with the wrestling scene. one clip i really did like was during the wrestling match when the entire audience is freaking out and wanting to lynch the gay wrestlers who are lip-locking & 69ing, the camera catches a random heshen in the audience is smiling with glee.. this is real... this is funny, however each scene goes on for way too long, then the outcome of homophobia is supposed to surprise us? or enlighten middle-america?
i would wager that sacha baron cohen had no gay people on his crew. otherwise the would have told him day one, " this humor is soooooo 2008."
here's what barbara wawa and the girls on the view said about the film-
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