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Bruno |  | Director: Larry Charles
Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Ba??agale, Chibundu Orukwowu, Chigozie Orukwowu
Studio: NBC Universal
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
as of 3/14/2010 03:04 EDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  147 reviews
Sales Rank: 291
Genre: Comedy
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 82 Minutes
ASIN: B002TL08FU
Theatrical Release Date: July 10, 2009
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Bruno is a gay Austrian fashion guru. He has his own fashion based television show, Funkyzeit, the most popular German-language show of its kind outside of Germany. After he disgraces himself in front of his Funkyzeit fan base, he is ruined in German speaking Europe. He decides that in his quest for worldwide fame, he will move to Los Angeles and reinvent himself. Accompanying him to the US is Lutz, his former assistant's assistant. Lutz is the only person left in his circle that still believes in Br????no's greatness. Br????no goes through one reinvention of himself after another, ultimately straying to areas far removed from his own self. Perhaps when Br????no finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that ????ber-fame he so desperately desires. |
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 Warning! Not for Kids...Why yes, that's what the R-rating signifies! March 10, 2010
Feelah the tigress
Bruno is an interesting film...It constantly walks the line between funny and awkward to downright painful. I feel that, at the end of the day, Bruno ultimately comes up successful; with just enough funny to keep you watching past the discomfort. I know a lot of people have complained about the "graphic" sex at the beginning and the nudity and whatnot, but honestly, those parts didn't bother me at all (and I'm a heterosexual female; didn't bother my boyfriend either). Besides, R-rated movies today are littered with graphic female nudity, it's about time we evened up the playing field, eh? If anything made me uncomfortable, it was the homophobic straight people. I'd have to say I was most uncomfortable during the swingers party (when he's pestering that guy having sex) and when he goes to Alabama to become "cured". I live in Alabama, and I'm honestly ashamed of some of the people shown (especially those during the cage match)... Ultimately, Cohen pulls off a very delicate satire of American culture by using an over the top stereotype to tease out the hypocrisy, hatred, and homophobia within our society. Yes, Bruno straddles the line between funny and downright uncomfortable, and although the film occasionally chafes, it's ultimately worth the ride.
 Subtle Feminist Critique & Hilarious February 27, 2010
K. A. Noble (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
BrunoBruno is truly laugh-out-loud hilarious. Many things can & have been said about this movie so I'll focus on something unexpected. At first I was taken aback by Bruno's aggressive sexual come-ons, such as to Ron Paul, as beyond obnoxious. It should be noted Bruno never initiated physical contact in these set-ups. Then I thought, how many times have I seen men do the same aggressive sexual come-ons to women - including touching and ass-slapping. Bruno acted as an unapologetic sexual aggressor the same way some straight men act toward women who suffer at their receiving end. Women rarely are able to respond to these men the way straight men do to gay men in the same situations. Moreover, Ron Paul, and others, did not complain about the gay advances afterwards in sexual orientation neutral terms like "Brute" or "Crazy Sexual Aggressor", but in gay epithets. If a woman acted in the same sexually aggressive manner, would he scream "Brazen heterosexual, I'm running from here"? Would he just laugh "Crazy floozy"? Some straight men feel it's OK to come-on to women without impunity but psychologically fall apart when they get the same come-ons by other men.
All the people with negative reviews couldn't tell it would not have been a movie of their liking??? February 21, 2010
C. Tatro (New York, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie shows how perverse our society is. Americans like to hide behind a righteous attitude of being the best and most civilized people on earth. Mostly this attitude comes from the religious zealots who make up the majority of our society. The people who did not like this movie should have gotten up and left but they did not. No one left during the two times I viewed it. And all of the people commenting negatively on here have not walked out either, neither from the theater or their living room.
The fact that we see former gay preachers trying to convert current gays is truly American. The fact that we see redneck southerners uncomfortable around someone who is different from them is also typical. It puts American stupidity right in our faces and that is why certain people do not like the movie. Just like his last movie we see all of our racist, sexist, and ignorant flaws right in front of us and we cannot deny the truth. On the surface this movie is funny. Deeper down we see yet another sad social experiment on our own people. And yet again we see that we may not be as just as our false personas would have us be. This country is racist, sexist and homophobic. That puts America way behind many other intelligent and progressive countries. If you need more proof than this movie, look at education statistics, job rates, standard of living and national laws of most all the other developed nations.
 Not that Great February 20, 2010
S. Moon (Pennsylvania)
I had high hopes that this movie was going to be a riot. However, I was let down. This movie was not that great. It just didn't do it for me. I found it rather dull. I only laughed at a few parts. Not one to buy for sure. I don't even think it is worth a rental.
The spiritual sequel to Borat February 17, 2010
ProReviewer (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It takes quite a bit to live up to the genius of Borat's character and movie, but Sacha Baron Cohen does it again with Bruno. This time, instead of a clueless, womanizing, anti-Semantic foreigner, he portrays a vain, fame-hungry, and EXTREMELY gay Austrian who names his son after O.J. Simpson, calls Mel Gibson "the Fuhrer", and conducts the shortest interview ever with Harrison Ford, among other things.
Although none of the scenes in this film quite match the "ROFLMAO" factor of the hotel fight sequence from Borat, several come quite close. Some highlights of this movie include a disastrous focus group presentation culminating with a surprise "character" shouting Bruno's name, an attempt to bed an unsuspecting Ron Paul for a celebrity sex tape, and an audience of drunk, redneck pro wrestling fans who don't quite get the "man-slamming action" they bargained for.
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