FROM MTV.COM: "Brüno" is both a confirmation of Sacha Baron Cohen's startling comic brilliance and a proof of its limitations within his current format. The movie is less irritating than "Borat," his last exercise in guerrilla humiliation: Here, instead of simply ridiculing blameless Romanian peasants and unsuspecting everyday Americans, Cohen adds a new target — the great puffed-up world of celebrity and its glittery, often clueless inhabitants. Early on, we see the star at a Milan runway show, interviewing a model about her job. "It's really hard, isn't it?" he asks, deviously sympathetic. When she responds with "It's very hard," you wish the whole movie had focused on the international fabulatti.
But then we'd be deprived of Cohen's spectacular, mega-tasteless physical comedy. His character this time out, as even blameless Romanian peasants must know by now (to their relief), is Brüno, the flamboyantly gay host of an Austrian TV fashion show called Funkyzeit.
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