Short Review: I have a rule about films with full-frontal male nudity: I don't watch them.


For those of you who sat through Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, this review is simple. Remember that disturbing scene in the hotel room? Remember how you were laughing but it wasn't really that funny. It was laughter based in being shocked not amused. Many would rather have skipped that scene if they could. This movie is that scene stretched to eighty minutes.

Sasha Baron Cohen is a chameleon and gets laughs through making the audience uncomfortable by putting his wild characters into uncomfortable social situations. This time Cohen becomes Bruno, a flamboyant homosexual media personality. Cohen's wallowing in faux pas has the ability to be funny, even insightful, but he descends into brutish, gross displays. With the exception of his mockery of celebrity adoption of third-world kids, Cohen seems unable to develop his humor beyond the most base sex jokes available. It is a shame. He is obviously very talented and has a gift for comedy.

This movie is not funny. It could be funny, but it fails.


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