Brüno [Blu-ray]

Brüno [Blu-ray] Overview

Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show and Talladega Nights) brings you the comedy that has started more conversations, generated more controversy and dared to go further than ever before! As brüno travels the world in search of fame, everyone he encounters — celebrities, politicians, Hasidic Jews, terrorists and cage fighters — becomes a stepping-stone to stardom, with hilarious results! So prepare yourself for nonstop laughs in the film Peter Travers of Rolling Stone says should be “Numero uno on your funny-time list!”

Brüno [Blu-ray] Specifications

The brilliant British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen dips into his stable of pre-existing characters and comes up with a big-screen vehicle for Brüno, a gay Austrian fashionista. Brüno is blond, fame-hungry, and prone to wearing unexpected combinations of lederhosen and hot pants. But it's his runway disaster with an all-Velcro suit that gets him barred from the Milan fashion scene and leads to the cancellation of his TV show. ("For the second time in a century, Austria had turned on its most famous man," he complains.) Clearly, he needs to go to America and share his philosophy--or at least become a celebrity in whatever way possible. Brüno rolls out in a fashion similar to Borat, a combination of a scripted through-line interspersed with scenes of Baron Cohen improvising with people who don't realize they're being set up, Candid Camera-style. About half the time, this reaps some healthy laughs: a sequence with Brüno sitting down for a conversation with a "de-programmer" who claims to cure people of their homosexuality is on-topic, and there's a wild series of interviews with parents so desperate to get their kiddies into showbiz they'll agree to all manner of dangerous and irresponsible childcare. A lot of the humor isn't about Brüno's gayness at all; Baron Cohen is at his best when displaying freakish comic bravery (sitting across from a terrorist, he advises that "Your King Osama looks like a dirty wizard"). But the other half of Brüno simply misses the movie's best targets--homophobia and celebrity culture--by miscalculating the nature of ambush comedy. When Baron Cohen gets former Presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room and begins to undress, Paul isn't showing bigotry by storming out (except in his language); he's understandably reacting to obnoxious behavior in a supposedly professional situation. Too many set-ups fall short of the mother-lode pay dirt that Borat so frequently hit, leaving this a distinctly lesser item in the Baron Cohen portfolio. --Robert Horton

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Customer Reviews

This film shows how our society is perverse. The Americans, like hiding behind a fair attitude with the best people and more civilized world. Most of this attitude stems from religious zealots who make the most of our society. The people who stood up and walked away, not like this movie, but they did not. No one in the two times I've watched. And all the people commenting negatively here or are not engaged, not for the theater, or theirStay.

The fact that we see gay former preacher trying to convert the current is really gay American. The fact that we see, redneck southern uncomfortable around someone who is different from them is a typical example. American stupidity gets right on our faces and that is why some people do not like the movie. Like his last film, we see all our faults racist, sexist and ignorant in front of us, and we can not deny the truth. On the surface, this movie is funny.After all, we see yet another sad social experiment on our own people. And once again we see that we are not to be so, as our characters would have us be false. This country is racist, sexist and homophobic. The United States behind many other countries is smart and progressive. If you need more evidence of this film, watch the statistics of education, rates of employment, living standards and national laws of most other developed nations.

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