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Movie Review: Brüno
14 July 2009 8:45 PM, PDT
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Larry Charles
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Running Time: 81 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Universal Pictures
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You can say what you want about him, but Sacha Baron Cohen has a knack for pissing people off. In his new movie Bruno, he does just that – but not for the reasons you would think. At its core, Bruno is nothing more than an indirect sequel of sorts to its wildly successful and superior predecessor, Borat. The character is slightly different, but the structure is the same. Both feature Baron Cohen playing a foreign character on some fish-out-of-water quest that allows him to interact with unsuspecting people while he pushes the boundaries of taste in the hope of yielding something funny. This time around we have Bruno; a gay Austrian fashion reporter who gets fired from his television program. He decides to come to America to become
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Movie Review: Brüno
14 July 2009 8:45 PM, PDT
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Larry Charles
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Running Time: 81 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Universal Pictures
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You can say what you want about him, but Sacha Baron Cohen has a knack for pissing people off. In his new movie Bruno, he does just that – but not for the reasons you would think. At its core, Bruno is nothing more than an indirect sequel of sorts to its wildly successful and superior predecessor, Borat. The character is slightly different, but the structure is the same. Both feature Baron Cohen playing a foreign character on some fish-out-of-water quest that allows him to interact with unsuspecting people while he pushes the boundaries of taste in the hope of yielding something funny. This time around we have Bruno; a gay Austrian fashion reporter who gets fired from his television program. He decides to come to America to become
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Movie Review: Brüno
14 July 2009 8:45 PM, PDT
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Larry Charles
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Running Time: 81 min
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Universal Pictures
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You can say what you want about him, but Sacha Baron Cohen has a knack for pissing people off. In his new movie Bruno, he does just that – but not for the reasons you would think. At its core, Bruno is nothing more than an indirect sequel of sorts to its wildly successful and superior predecessor, Borat. The character is slightly different, but the structure is the same. Both feature Baron Cohen playing a foreign character on some fish-out-of-water quest that allows him to interact with unsuspecting people while he pushes the boundaries of taste in the hope of yielding something funny. This time around we have Bruno; a gay Austrian fashion reporter who gets fired from his television program. He decides to come to America to become
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