Borat came with both laughs and class (yes, the crass movie had a certain class to it).
Alas, while Brüno serves up the laughs in abundance the class aspect has surrendered to the crass element.
After a while, you get more than a little tired of the nudity, the anal bleaching, the dildos, the sex machine, the homosexuality, getting whipped, the homophobia and truth be said you get tired of the movie itself.
Following the Borat framework, in Brüno we have Sacha Baron Cohen once again coming to America.
Only this time, he plays a gay man from Austria in search of celebrity status.
In pursuit of his celebrity goal, we have Brüno trying his hand at various things like becoming an actor, talk-show interview host, taking up a charity cause, solving the Middle East crisis and bringing peace between Israel and Palestine, attempting to get kidnapped, adopting a black baby and toward the end even trying to become straight. Continue reading »
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