Brüno (2009)
Directed by Larry Charles
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
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It's conceptually comparable to John Waters's radically ridiculous Pink Flamingos in its programmatic desire to outrage, but, unlike Brüno, Pink Flamingos came from somewhere beyond the pale.
If I want broad, over-the-top stereotyping laced with genuine comic gold, I’ll dig into my DVD collection and throw on Pink Flamingos, or even better, John Waters’ brilliant deconstructionist camp classic Female Trouble.
But if one condemns the movie on that basis, then shouldn't we toss Christopher Guest's sublime turn in Waiting for Guffman, Robin Williams' inspired camping in The Birdcage, and so many others onto the bonfire, too?
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by Larry Charles
"Brüno," in which Sacha Baron Cohen plays a vehemently gay Austrian fashionista, is his follow-up to "Borat," and I'm guessing lightning won't strike twice at the box office.
While 2006's " Borat " wasn't Sacha Baron Cohen 's first film where one of the comedian's clueless characters went out to the world (that would be "Ali G in Da House"), it was the first time Cohen made an entire film out of mock-documentary footage and interviews, as unknowing participants were subjected to idiotic questions and rude behavior with director Larry Charles ' camera capturing ordinary people's reactions to exceptional stupidity.
Assuming that the reader has at least some familiarity with Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 assault on the moviegoing public, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (thank God for copy-paste functions), the approach of Brüno will come as no surprise.
Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to Borat puts his gay Austrian fashionista character Brüno in the driver's seat for another assault on cultural sensibilities and sensitivities.
Review in a Hurry: Sticking with the wildly successful Borat formula, Sacha Baron Cohen uses his guerilla tactics to "expose" the vanity and vacuity of Hollywood and the American South.
The left-field success of 2006’s Borat created a whole new set of problems for Sacha Baron Cohen: It’s hard to slip into loaded situations incognito, then slink away in a cartoon cloud of mischief and anarchy, when you’re behind one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of the decade.
Much of it is lazy: Zoolander aimed sharper knives at the fashion world, and Mike Myers�s Dieter bit in the Sprockets SNL skits was a juicier Teutonic caricature.
It’s been done, most memorably in Ben Stiller’s Zoolander.