Bruno

It has taken me a while to write this review, and there is a very good reason for it.

While watching Bruno I really did not get into it. I laughed only a handful of times and there were no tears streaming down my face. If anything the film was a diversion from other things; the washing up in the kitchen sink, the housework that needed doing, etc.

However, the next day my wife asked me about the film. I started by telling her how ‘Meh’ the film had been. Then I started telling her some of the situations that ‘Bruno’, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, found himself in. I say found, but it was obviously (over) engineered that way.

And, do you know what, I actually found it funny. I was laughing more telling my wife about the film, than when I was watching it. The rest of the day, as I thought back over the film, I found myself chuckling to myself further. How strange.

It is all very hit and miss.  The story, which loosely holds the film together, centres around Bruno losing his job  as host of a ‘hip’ Austrian TV show, and embarking on a mission to become as big a star as he can in Hollywood. What it actually comes down do is a load of skits, mainly about gay sex, getting more and more outrages as the film progresses.

The film is not as good as Borat, and in my opinion, that was nowhere near as good as his previous television shows, but, as I said, it beats housework.

Meh! rating: 6/10