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An egomaniacal fashionista (Sacha Baron Cohen) prepares to become an international superstar in the comedy “Bruno.” |
Soon after I had seen Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy “Brüno,” a studio publicist asked me what I thought of it, and the only words that came to me were: “It’s an eyeball-gouging, eardrum-splitting, conscience-searing, butt-busting, throat-grabbing, gaydar-exploding brain fry.”
That pretty much sums up my shellshocked reaction to Cohen’s anxiously awaited follow-up to his 2006 box office smash “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” an audacious mix of reality and fiction that paved brave new roads for comedy and catapulted the MPAA’s R rating into uncharted, adults-only territory.
To be honest, there’s no way I can possibly describe what really happens in “Brüno” without my editor being fired, me being fired and the Daily Herald building being burned to the ground by outraged members of the political action committee Citizens for Good Taste and Coherent Plots in Movies. (Read more…)