Review of Brüno

Brüno (2009)
2/10
Very disappointing
9 July 2009
Wow, I was really looking forward to this movie but, much to my dismay, it simply wasn't funny. It's a short movie - less than 90 minutes - and it seemed to go more for shock value than substance. I guess that it was assumed that shock value = funny = successful movie, but they were wrong. I would like to think that looking at a penis on screen would not send people rolling on the floor laughing in 2009. Too much of the movie seemed staged and rehearsed. Where as the surprise element was successful in the prior movie, here it was carefully choreographed and unbelievable. It reminded me of an old Simpsons episode, where the family is watching a gay parade and the participants are chanting, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it." A jaded Lisa Simpson says, "You say the same thing every year; we ARE used to it."
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