Posted on 07/10/2009 7:32:05 AM PDT by AJKauf
Every lightning bolt Sacha Baron Cohen caught in a bottle with Borat three years ago turns to static in Bruno.
The new film, which backstrokes into theaters on a tidal wave of publicity over its coarse material, proves just how rare a cinematic feat was Baron Cohen’s breakthrough role .
Borat blended scripted sequences with Candid Camera-style pranks into one hilarious romp across America. Bruno attempts the same formula, but the staged sequences fall pancake flat while the Punk’d moments feel equally hollow.
For the uninitiated, Bruno is Baron Cohen’s gay Austrian fashionista, an irrepressible elf desperate for fame and fortune. His media platform, the Austrian show Funkyzeit, gets canceled after Bruno disrupts a Milan fashion show with his Velcro ensemble. Crushed, he cheers himself up by deciding to come to America to become “the biggest gay movie star since Schwarzenegger,” an unfunny line that doesn’t even make sense. He hooks up with a talent agent, shoots his own television pilot, and invites Paula Abdul to be interviewed while sitting on the backs of Mexican immigrant workers.
Laughing yet?..
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NO..I wouldn’t go see it anyway..I think Cohen’s 15 minutes are up....Now to wait for Barry’s clock to run out....
His films exist so he can preen about how self righteous he is over politically correct junk.
He's Jewish so he runs over here to goad folks to agree with anti-Jewish statements so he can then gloat about how deep antisemitism is here
same with anti-homosexuality and whatnot
he simply sux and is symptomatic of how brainwashed so many gen Y kids are that he gets an audience...political correctness ain't funny and neither are PC pranks
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“...’the biggest gay movie star since Schwarzenegger,’ an unfunny line that doesn’t even make sense.”
That’s why it’s funny!
That said, I will not be seeing the movie, and I was a huge fan of Borat......................................................................................................not!
Nope.
I thought Borat was going to be great, somewhat hyped to see it, but then they interviewed the clown and he was trying to be serious and I realized what a self-righeous fool he is, never saw the movie.
The line is ...’to make the best film by a gay Austrian since Terminator 2’.
Which is, to me, funnier.
Borat was flat out brilliant. Not aimed at every demographic, but then, neither is ‘Mama’s Family’, or ‘HeeHaw’.
One problem I have with Cohen is the fire hose approach to comedy. Sometimes too much is....too much. He does not seem to realize that if you go too far over the top, the joke gets lost in the sun.
Borat had its moments, but all-in-all, I felt like I was having Deja Vu all over again. It struck me like a bolt of lightning halfway through, after one particularly poor skit.
Sorry...It wasn’t funny when Kaufman did it, and it ain’t funny now.
I never liked SBC. I was bored by Borat. I’l skip Bruno.
At its core, SBC’s schtick is lying about other people so that he can then laugh at them for being what he falsely claims them to be.
Can somebody stuff a sock in that schmuck? He’s about as funny as fart in a submarine.
3 times I’ve tried to watch “borat”, and have yet to get past the first ten minutes.
Since when are crudity and vulgarity merely for their own sake funny?
From what I’m seeing of the user ratings on Yahoo, “Bruno” could possibly be one of the worst movies in history.
Saw it last night and it was hilarious. The guy is merciless the way he preys on the stupidity/naivety of celebrities and assorted morons.
Go see "Blues Brothers 2000". You may have to re-evaluate the above sentence.
I think it was hillarious. It is funny because so much of the gay stuff is so very close to the truth. lol
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