Late Review: Bruno

Over the weekend, Stacey and I watched Bruno, AKA “Borat 2: Electric Boogaloo“. Here is my review!

Meh.

Borat was genius. The character, Borat, was genuine and earnest. Despite his inbred anti-semitism and misogyny, he was honest and endearing: I cared what happened to him.

It just so happened that what happened to him was some of the funniest bits I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching.

Bruno, however: I hated him. From frame one. He’s a self-centered asshole, a jerk who isn’t looking to understand the world but instead wanting to make the world match him.

And that’s kind of how I felt about this movie. Baron Cohen goes overboard too many times, too far. What would be hysterically funny bits become short-sighted, self-centered bits with no soul.

So there’s that.

I’d give it a thumb down but I don’t have any thumbs.