Review of Brüno

BRUNO (2009) ** Sacha Baron Cohen does it again: unleashing an obnoxious foreigner on the unitiated American populace, this time in the form of the titular flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista who desires nothing but to be famous and will go to no depths (high or low, well, come on really low) to do so regardless of his own obnoxiousness and outrageous behavior. For the most part it is a rehash of BORAT but with more of a browbeating bull-in-a-China shop-approach with more misses than hits; while there a few funny moments sprinkled about (i.e. usurping an LA PR firm's vapidity is like shooting fish in a barrel). The jokes are strained, vulgar and in a word: passe. You've been warned. (Dir: Larry Charles)