The Summer movie season sends another crushing disappointment our way this weekend.
“Bruno,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow up to his brilliant 2006 comedy “Borat,” uses the same comedy template but can’t come anywhere close to repeating the howls of laughter the latter inspired.
Yes, the film is outrageous, and as The Washington Times’ Sonny Bunch succinctly said:
“The Motion Picture Association of America has effectively thrown its hands up in resignation and said to filmmakers, “Do the craziest thing you can think of, cut a small portion of that, throw in a few black bars that don’t really obscure what’s happening when hard-core sex is depicted, and have at it.”
You can read my review at PajamasMedia.
(Photo: Universal Pictures’ “Brüno” is Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: Mark Schwartzbard / Universal Pictures
Copyright: © 2009 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
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It really is kind of amazing what they got away with in this movie. The entire rationale behind the NC-17 has been destroyed by this film. As “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” showed, the NC-17 had its problems (though I would argue the far greater problem was the big chains refusing to carry movies slapped with that rating), but it’s effectively dead now. Bruno has killed it.
I’m going to see “Bruno” tomorrow, but for me, NC-17 offically died with “Crank 2.” About half an hour into that I realized that none of the NC-17 films I had seen came even close to matching “Crank 2’s” hideous content.
For years I’ve thought that the MPAA might as well scrap every rating except for G and R, because that’s functionally how parents use the system already.