Review of Brüno (2009) by Tuneison — 24 Sep 2018

Larry Cohen & Sacha Baron Cohen in 2006 released Borat, on of the most popular comedies of the early 2000s. It was followed up by Bruno, which was way less popular. I'm shocked that this was the movie that people decided to just say: "It's homophobic garbage and, isn't funny.".

The presentation of this film is absolutely fantastic. Everything is presented in a way were you understand the tone of the scene and, if something is ridiculous, it's presented as such. (So the entire film).

The film making is well done for the most part. What makes this film leagues better than any other pile of garbage is that the scenes flow from one to another really well, to a fantastic degree. I never felt like the story was just stopping for a prank, the prank furthered the story in some minor way. It call connects together like lego bricks.

Not to mention the performance from Sacha Baron Cohen was fantastic. He never breaks character and never once does anything feel unnatural or like it doesn't fit.

If I had one issue with this film, it would be the camera placement. I mean the film is being presented as a documentary but, certain parts are just plauged with too many cuts. This issue disappeared as the film went on but, was still present. Also, it is curious how Bruno supposedly obtained most of this footage even though the people were people who he had offended or what not so, that was kind of weird.

Overall, this is about the best a mainstream comedy of this nature could be and, I'd reccomend it with the stigma if you are easily offended, don't watch it.