Bruno is the host/queen of the hottest fashion show in Austria and life is good. But his world comes crashing down when he is banned from the fashion world after ruining a high-profile show with a dangerously sticky Velcro suit. All is lost until Bruno realizes that in order to find happiness he must come to America to become… famous. Bruno’s travels provide endless fodder for homolarious situations often involving anal sex, anal bleaching, anal lube or dildos or bicycles with dildo attachments or even a TV remote used as a dildo. Homolarity ensues.
Bruno is Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow up to his enormously successful feature Borat and plot-wise, it’s pretty much the same – the universal tale of a likable outcast traversing an unfamiliar world. As one would expect, Cohen’s brand of hijack comedy is also the same, except while Borat had a few Gay moments, Bruno is a lot more Gay. It’s actually much, much, much, much more Gay. In fact, it’s totally Gay! And it’s not just Gay, the situations in Bruno get downright pornographic (a previous cut was rated NC-17) with small black boxes sometimes covering up the flesh-piston-goings-on during several male-on-male action scenes and during a particularly graphic swinger party. Cohen is a master at coaxing a reaction out of everyone he encounters, and while this time around things seems a bit more staged, it actually gets more dangerous especially when Bruno briefly visits the middle east in order to negotiate a peace treaty. Of course, this is where he also confuses hummus with Hamas.
Borat shoved a mirror in America’s face and showed us how stupid we can be. Bruno greases up that same mirror, shoves it up America’s ass and shows us the extent to which homophobia continues to penetrate deep inside the U.S. What’s most shocking is that no matter where Bruno travels, from Los Angeles to Alabama, his Gaydar sees things that he previously thought to be manly and reveals them as, well, kinda… Gay. (ACHTUNG! Poschible schpoilers!)
