Why ‘Brüno’ is the Most Depressing Movie of the Year

Oh, please! I just saw Bruno a couple days ago, and I thought it was fantastic. (And I am gay.) There's never a dull moment. The entire movie is meant to be fun, over-the-top, and outrageous. I can't imagine that any sane person would think that Bruno is supposed to represent all gay men. Lighten up and laugh a little!

I'm looking forward to seeing it again, and owning the DVD when it's released.

I refuse to pay up to twenty bucks to watch a movie whose artistic merit is one that I find repulsive even though I respect it as a form of art. I will wait for it to come out on DVD and then find out for myself if my intuition is correct (which is that it would most likely offend me horribly like Borat did). What I found repulsive is not so much as the crude humor (I have three sons and believe me, having them around has made me immune to crass humor) but the deceptive,mean, and almost bully like manner in which Baron uses to dupe people in order to make them look like completely utter fools. It embarasses me, and makes me feel sad that the methods he use is so accepted by the audience as fun humor to watch, and I believe this is why bullying behaviour in schools and public in general is becoming so rampant. Baron's movies are sending a nonverbal message to people with low empathy/sympathy intelligence that being a bully to get laughs is acceptable behaviour. But then, art is in the eye of the beholder-right?

This was seriously the worst movie I've ever seen. Unfortunately I will never get the time back. I saw this movie at the pre-screening the night before with many young fans of the Borat movie. Upon interviewing the crowd after the movie not one person liked the movie and infact all were offended by it regardless of their sexual orientation or sex. The biggest shocks in this R rated movie was seeing Sasha Baron Cohen dance around nude in his premiere video and when he acts out pleasuring his dead lover from Milli Vanilli. How this movie escaped the NC-17 rating I will never know. Is this what the future holds for our rating system...

S. B. Cohen overplays the stereotype for laughs because that's how most homophobic people think gay people act. Bruno doesn't have to be gay to be trying to get into the tent nude, if Cohen had played Bruno extremely straight would they have been "weirded out?" No they wouldn't have, they would have laughed about it. Is the audience creeped out by Bruno being gay or by him being so effeminate? Homophobia is outrageously prevalent and not enough good people stand up to it. Example: In my town a 20 year man with down syndrome last Halloween was beaten unconscious into a bloody mess by 15 teen boys because they thought he was gay for the way he was acting. A woman and her 2 kids were on the opposite sidewalk and she called the police while taking her kids to the house to shield them from the violence. When the woman opened the door the first woman told her what was happening and the woman and her husband said they already knew but they weren???t ???going to stop it because they were just boys being boys beating up a ***.??? When the police arrived they questioned the five duplexes and all of the people said they seen and heard what was happening but nobody called 911 or the police. When the mother (witness) told the judge and jury she saw them raping him there was complete silence in the courtroom. After the trial was finished only one of the punks felt remorse when he said he ???wouldn???t have participated if he knew the man wasn???t a homo.??? Not even the parents felt sorry because they defended their kids. I think the jurors were sick to their stomachs. If I was one of the jurors I probably would have jumped over the partition and strangled the punks. So after Bruno is seen by the audience, who cares how over the top Cohen plays his character because no one gets this angry over seeing a straight character beat or rape or murder another character and the audience doesn???t walk away thinking everyone who looks and acts like this straight character is going to ???get them.??? Why not, what???s the difference? Any answers?

"A generation of straight teen guys will hit the summer multiplex to hoot at Brüno, and they'll probably think of the lecherous sexual predator the next time they meet a gay person. " -- Just like they'll think all Kazakhstanians practice "The Running of the Jew" and defecate into plastic bags from watching Borat. Every scene in Cohen's movie isn't supposed to point out homophobia or make a point. The movie employs an outrageous character who was designed to get into over-the-top situations and to make people squirm (much like Andy Kaufman) for comedic effect. It was made to entertain and produce a profit first and foremost and subsequently splash a little social commentary here and there. Your review has read way too much into this summer comedy and you are giving no credit whatsoever to the audience and what they will take away from the movie, if anything..

This piece misses the point. The fact that Bruno is so funny is precisely because it makes fun of homosexuals, and their superficial love of celebrity, cattiness, etc. The fact that it has some truth in in, and exaggerates a bit, is exactly what makes it funny. You are not happy looking in the mirror is all.

I think homosexuality is depressing. This movie is very funny though. Let all opinons be heard

I'm with SG - all the critics who thought Borat was good need their heads examined. You all claimed he was showing up American xenophobia and uber politeness and sneaky racism. But Cohen was the racist in that film. I found the entire movie bereft of intellgience and never did get the Ali G show, either.

"I saw a nature show where a male horse killed a baby one because it was injured and he was not the father. Are you suggesting that those behaviors should be emulated by humans as well?" In your case, yes, since you are obviously irreversibly brain damaged...

Someone said, "What EXACTLY is it that you find "disgusting" about gay sex? ravcasleygera's link helpfully points out that there are plenty of animals who engage in homosexual acts,"
The black widow eats her male mate after they copulate. Some animals eat their young. I saw a nature show where a male horse killed a baby one because it was injured and he was not the father. Are you suggesting that those behaviors should be emulated by humans as well?

I think I find this article hypocritical. To say that Borat is okay and Burno is not is stupidly hypocritical. What needs to happens is that both movies should be condemned. Just like your feeling attacked right now with his latest movie Burno, others felt the same way with the movie Borat. People will take you more serious in life, and listen to your point of view when your not hypocritical. People are told to be tolerant of different view points, but it seems to me that if your view point isn???t socially acceptable with pop culture then you can???t express it and your automatically wrong. I???m so thankful we have the freedom of the press!! There???s no excuse for either movie, so please also remember to add that to the next article.

I find his "humor" just mean and cruel. Personally, I sincerely hope someone kicks his ass someday as he is pulling this crap.

A "Casey at the Bat" reference? How timely! Was Sid Ceaser unavailable for comment?

@cbt7 Did you read the article? Yes, Cohen is trying to point this out to us, but is doing it in an absurd and hurtful manner. He is pushing it to the point where anyone would be offended - gay or not, homophobic or not.

For Setoodeh - "who are so blonde, they've never heard of Darfur" - watch it on the stereotypes! Leave that to Cohen.

I have never understood why anyone finds Cohen funny. He's just a dressed up shock jock who uses a camera instead of a microphone to pretend to have something important to say. If you have talent you don't need to offend or gross out. If you don't you make Cohen's movies.

Hey, what can you say to a people who believe "BRÜNO" is a social documentary? Good Luck!