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Bruno

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Peter Baynham (& story)
Jeff Schaffer
Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines
Sacha Baron Cohen
Directed by: Larry Charles
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 10, 2009
DVD: November 17, 2009
Running Time: 83 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive strong and crude sexual content, graphic nudity and language
Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Alice Evans, Trishelle Cannatella, Sandra Seeling, and Ben Youcef
After being ousted from the fashion community during a hi-profile mishap on a Milan runway, the uber-famous fashion correspondent, Bruno, heads to the U.S. to try and straighten himself out.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You'll hoot and holler as it strips down its targets and sticks it to them, hardcore. Baron Cohen is the pure, untamed id of movie comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A no-holds-barred comedy permitting several holds I had not dreamed of. The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Jason Buchanan
With Bruno, Baron Cohen essentially turns a carnival mirror on society, and some people simply aren't going to like what they see. This is satire at its most confrontational and incisive.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Cohen no longer has freshness and novelty on his side, but he’s retained the power to shock, offend, provoke, unsettle, and most importantly, entertain a jaded, desensitized public.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Funny as it is, Brüno could not be as shockingly uproarious as "Borat." No matter how well retold, a joke necessarily loses explosive force the second time around. But a great gag is a thing of beauty forever--so, too, a comic performance.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Probably more gut-bustingly funny than anything else out there right now.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It's hard to deny that Brüno succeeds in being both outrageous and outrageously funny, and it's hard to damn a comedy, regardless of its faults, for those qualities.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
The real genius, if that is what it is, behind Sacha Baron Cohen's crude, shocking and explosively funny Brüno is the fact that the filmmakers actually found enough gullible human targets.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Brüno offers more shock value for your moviegoing dollar than any other movie this year.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Packed with filthy jokes, insane sight gags, and body parts used in decidedly uncommon ways, Brüno is hands-down the dirtiest R-rated movie you'll see this year.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Like a wayward love child of Lenny Bruce and the Three Stooges, Brüno is an idiot savant of penetration -- breaking through borders, boundaries and anything that resembles good taste on his way to whipping up as much cultural anarchy as he can. I would guess Brüno is holding on to an R rating for this sublimely spicy soufflé by the skin of his, well, let's just not say.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Undeniably funny, outrageous and boundary-pushing, this further documentation of Sacha Baron Cohen's sheer nerve will draw an abundant share of "Borat" fans.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Is Brüno riotous? Yes, more so than "Borat," in which Baron Cohen's targets were ducks in a barrel and largely undeserving of ridicule. He doesn't aim much higher here, but his tricks are more inventive.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Crude both in form and content while at the same time capable of evoking explosions of shocked and, often, shamed laughter.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
Director Larry Charles has made Bruno a tighter, better-looking film than "Borat," which is not necessarily a good thing on those occasions when you suspect it of scripting rather than just observing.
Read Full Review >Empire Damon Wise
A patchy, hit-and-miss comedy with a few outrageous highs and a lot of just-okay padding, Brüno suggests that Sacha Baron Cohen's in-your-face fool routine sadly isn't working any more.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
The problem with shock comedy is that it works in its purest form only the first time. Where do you go after you've gone too far? No artist can get heads to swivel and stomachs to turn indefinitely.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) James Adams
Brüno is likely to be the funniest thing you'll see on a screen this summer. Which is precisely its problem: it's a thing , not a movie – if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
The humor of Brüno is arguably crueler and more misanthropic than "Borat's."
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Parts of it are brilliant; some of it feels tired and overplayed. Cohen has come up with some marvelous satirical motifs; elsewhere, he's just showing how far he'll go to get a laugh.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
There are some solid, outrageous laughs here--most of them involving anal sex--but don't expect a second lightning strike.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
There's good bad taste and then there's just plain bad bad, which is what describes most of Brüno.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Brüno is what "Borat’" was too well-done to be: a publicity stunt about publicity stunts.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A crude, cringe-worthy, and intermittently funny affair that triggers the gag reflex. I sincerely can't tell you whether I was choking with laughter or keeping from choking.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
In spite of Mr. Baron Cohen and Mr. Charles’s high-level skills and keen low-comic instincts, Brüno is a lazy piece of work that panders more than it provokes.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Bruno is only intermittently funny and all too often the "ambushes" of celebrities and civilians look staged. The movie is even a tad -- dare we say it? -- tedious.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The low points in this movie aren't just catastrophic: they're bewildering.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Seems fatally out of tune, with every staged encounter falling as flat as the protagonist's hot-ironed bob.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
Forget satire; this guy doesn't want to scorch the earth anymore. He just wants to swing his dick.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The film may have only the best of intentions, but it tries way too hard and ends up being shallow, superficial, and only sporadically funny.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The bad outweighs the good and the cringes outnumber the laughs in Brüno, a disappointment from Sacha Baron Cohen, whose "Borat" was one of the funniest movies of the decade.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Here’s the bad news: Brüno is no "Borat." Here’s the worse news: Brüno crosses the line, like a besotted sprinter, from hilariously to genuinely awful.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 205 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Michael gave it a10:
AWESOME. i think i actually cried with laughter. those who dont get it are the people who sachin is trying to offend and would be caught in to his trickery if their paths were crossed. honestly the funniest thing ive ever seen. agreed that it probably deserved a R18 rating though.
D g gave it a9:
The movie challenges societies prejudiced views by using obvious and over the top offensive materials and delivered to an unsuspecting public. in an attempt to capture their reaction. In short this is a creative movie and will appeal towards the liberalised atheist minded.
Aaron G. gave it a6:
It was ok. there are 4 hilarious moments, scattered with sort of funny but ok moments. It was ok. This just is not the comedic genius that was borat.
Aaron G. gave it a6:
It was ok. there are 4 hilarious moments, scattered with sort of funny but ok moments. It was ok. This just is not the comedic genius that was borat.
Tom G gave it a0:
This movie was ridiculously boring most the time and not worth the money I paid to see it. Thankfully I went during Matinee and only paid $4.50 but even that is way too much for this dumb movie.
Magik300 gave it a10:
I've just seen trailer, but I have so much fun over two minutes that I didn't have in years.
Evin C gave it an8:
Funny and shocking. People have to realize it's just a Sacha Cohen comedy. Watch it if your comfortable with his kind of comedy. Made me laugh out loud. Maybe it might make you.
