Brüno, a gay fashionista is the host of the top-rated late night fashion show in any German-speaking country--apart from Germany. Brüno’s mission? To become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler. His strategy? To crisscross the globe in the hopes of finding fame and love.

There our two different types of shock attacks in the movie the first kind being so over the top that even if you are very liberal you are going to be shocked and possibly react badly. The second kind is just fining moronic people that all you have to do is put a camera in front of them and they will deliver behavior that will crack you up and force you to shake your head at how stupid some people can act and behave. The same could be said about Borat and just like in Borat my favorite shock attack was the second kind because it is more real and natural. Almost everyone I hope would be shocked by seeing a baby covered in bees and wasps and hope someone would protect that child so it loses a little of its humor. Not everyone is going to act so moronic though like the gay converters or those trying to set up humanitarian events and that is why the movie is funny because it wasn’t trying to push buttons but just catching not so normal people’s reactions.

The reason movies like Bruno and Borat work so well is because of late our society has gone so politically correct that most of us I believe want to scream at the absurdity of it all. Bruno finds those though who are too politically correct or not politically correct at all and does everything in it’s power to shock them into making honest and funny reactions to his shock tactics. It comes down to laughing at ourselves and how as a society we have gone to extremes too much or too little. We probably shouldn’t be laughing at homophobes but it’s hard not to when they make themselves out to be such close minded and ignorant people and that is why the movie is funny but cringe worthy as well.

There were a few bits that missed though and just weren’t that funny and their were other times I questioned the authenticity of the situations. I found it hard to believe for example that Sacha Baron Cohen got leaders of Israel to meet with him so easily to discuss peace treaties and then stayed around when it was obvious he was mocking them. I thought the fact that you had to wonder about the authenticity of the movie took away from the movie a little bit where Borat was all about real people that would be so easily duped.

You would think that after Borat Sacha Baron Cohen would have a difficult time pulling the wool over people’s eyes once more but he is successful once more again because he is a fantastic actor. He plays the character of Bruno to perfection and it is easy to forget that he was ever Borat or Ali G. He sells the movie with his acting and his outrageous behavior and he deliver a hilarious movie once more although you have to wonder if he will ever be able to pull these kind of movies of anymore.

Grade: B+