[movie] Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" to open May '09

Creepy. That looks like Stuart from MadTV...

 

Stuart, what did mama tell you about taking candy from strangers?

Stuart: I don't wanna say.

Back when Madtv was still decent.

 

I saw it last night at midnight. Spur of the moment thing and we got free tickets. It was funny, but it gets so close to going above an R-rated movie (there is a gay sex scene). The swingers party was different, too.

 

I can't be as bad as Borat and the fat guy nude scene from Borat. The movie was funny enough to not include that scene.

 

Oh it was worse.

The movie itself was pretty funny, but it wasn't nearly as good as Borat. The problem was that most of the movie was staged - he cleared had setup a lot of the scenes beforehand. But most of all, unlike Borat where we're laughing at "real America" or whatever, here, most of the humor was focused on the Bruno character. Outside of a few scenes, the "real America" was having fairly reasonable, normal reactions to a ridiculous person.

 

I saw the sneak preview last night.

It was funny but mad gay.

Pretty much just tries to push the limit. No race or religion is spared.