Bruno
Blacklisted after crashing a runway presentation, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista travels to the United States, where he hopes to launch a celebrity interview show. Perhaps when Brüno finds an activity that he truly does love, he will also find that über-fame he so desperately desires.
3 February 1948, El Paso, Texas, USA
5 March 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1951, Far Rockaway, New York, USA
2 October 1951, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
11 November 1982, New York, New York, USA
30 September 1961, Tampa, Florida, USA
10 May 1960, Dublin, Ireland
20 August 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
16 November 1951, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
20 December 1969, Gardena, California, USA
2 September 1967, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
September 12, 2010
The only thing Cohen can do is to throw the character's sexuality in people's faces, but there are several brilliant sequences of baiting and utilizing American gay panic that really hit the satirical button.
December 17, 2009
there are very little or no examples of comedic genius in this film
February 01, 2011
if mixed martial arts fans who view the film are forever after afraid of fighters getting aroused during a ground-and-pound session on the mat, then Baron Cohen did the job right.
July 10, 2009
a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter.
January 06, 2012
Sacha Baron Cohen's latest shock comedy Bruno is a nasty, tired and pointless retread of the gifted comedian's previous work.
July 10, 2009
There's good bad taste and then there's just plain bad bad, which is what describes most of Brüno.
July 13, 2009
Wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it.
October 27, 2010
A plot synopsis doesn't quite capture the visceral thrill of our hero's bizarre and shocking adventure.
July 13, 2009
It's certainly not that there aren't a few funny moments in the film. There are, but overwhelmingly, Bruno's stunts are demeaning, they are insulting and they are really cruel.
June 22, 2016
Add to that a spectacular celebrity-studded finale and you have a very successful, if not quite as original, follow up to one of the funniest films of this century.
July 30, 2009
Undeniably funny, but the targets are far too obvious.
