(this brings to mind josh's obsession with imitating bruno's gay actions after he saw the trailer 4months back)
Bruno, a flamboyantly gay 'fashionista' hailing from Austria, does the most stereotypical gay actions and wears the gay-est clothes that exposes his ass, not buttcheeks mind you. Initially the jokes were promising and were genuinely laugh-worthy but after half time, the jokes get somewhat stale and repetitive. Like the first Hitler joke, it was truly funny. After that it was zzz, or maybe i didn't get it? Some redeeming scenes like the satire on the whole celebrity trend on adopting an african kid went pleasantly well with me. Like someone lambast Madonna on her copycaticity already! i liked that part where he was asked what did he trade his adopted baby for, and he gave a matter-of-fact answer "an ipod", subtly putting the message across on how Apple is taking the world by storm, even in Africa. I laughed at Cohen's deft satire on the whole get-famous-by-making-a-sex-tape-paris-hilton-way. with old wrinkly Ron Paul. Well of course it didn't happen. He looked extremely uncomfortable with bruno hitting on him and excused himself out of the room when bruno shed his hot-pants.
Although Bruno uses the same formula as its predecessor Borat, the humour is nowhere as sharp or consistent as it. There were a lot of totally witless and plain what-the-fuck moments. At the end of the movie, you get the feeling Cohen produced another movie to ride on Borat's fame and tried and tested formula. It was hard to buy the allegedly "real" movie cause some of the scenes were so obviously staged! I don't think even the star power from Bono, Sting etc helped save this tragedy of a film.
Not worth it to have paid 10bucks to catch it on a friday night!
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