Brüno

[kito09]

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[boho_babe]

Just watched this again on DVD...
Had mixed feelings, loved some of it, other parts not so much..
Really did laugh at the Karate bit though..

I wonder if anyone from tFS was at any of the shows he was.. Surely..!

 

[Andrea.RL]

I heard about borat being really funny and since its the same guy and humor i just watched this one. It was some mean humor. the movie is definately not my favorite but i have to admit i did laugh and that some scene are now cult for me (its so bad but my favorite part was with the baby... )

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

I don't know that anything in Brüno was really that exceptionally offensive or otherwise out the usual fodder in that genre. If anything, I thought the idea was lazy, compared to Borat and otherwise (though obviously, there were some commonalities also). The movie really didn't bring anything new after Borat, and just lacked a point. Even with its funny bits. Which weren't too many.

Honestly, though, imo the R-15 rating Brüno got in Finland was hugely inappropriate, when R-15 here means that 13-14-year-olds can also go see the movie when accompanied by an adult. I took my younger sister, soon-to-be 14 at the time, to see the movie. Sure, I'd seen the trailer, she'd seen the trailer, so we didn't exactly expect a PC-treatment in any respect, but R-15 does not say full frontal nudity to me. It neither says penis close-ups nor penis-copters. R-18 (which is the next one up here) says penis. R-18 tells me I'm going to see a movie that isn't suitable for younger audiences, and that I shouldn't take my 13-year-old kid sister to see it -- after all, I couldn't.

Both of us laughed at the scenes out of sheer surprise at the time, but had I known of the full extent of what the movie contained, I would never have taken my sister to see it.