In an interview in Sweden the South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are asked about the reactions that their 2004 film Team America had in the United States. They say that most people really liked it but that a section of people that really hated it. It was basically the same that always happens with their stuff, they say that pretty much the section of people that hate their stuff is always sort of changing (in the case of Team America it was the extreme-left, for the most part) but there's always present, which, they add, is good and pretty normal due to the subject matter and basically if every single person likes something they did they would be wondering...and they would be like Shrek!
Obviously the latest Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles production (the film of Cohen's character Brüno, who is a gay Austrian fashion reporter) is not a Shrek. Brüno was released back in July in the US but just last Friday in Mexico City. I don't think here it will be in theaters more than this first week, today I saw it and aside of my familiars and me in the theater were just about 5 other persons. Having seen Borat (for me not only Sacha Baron Cohen's masterwork but also the most hilarious film of the decade so far) I knew exactly what was going to be Brüno then basically if you enjoyed Borat you will have a truly great time watching this, otherwise you will want to do what a couple that was in the theater today did: leave the theater in the middle of the film, or press the stop button and throw away the DVD/Blu-Ray (yes, while here in Mexico it just arrived a couple of days ago its DVD and Blu- Ray release is near).
I don't think I should write a lot about Bruno since it is basically a Borat, still I will add some more words. The first laughs came (I must add that aside of that couple the other few people in the audience laughed as hard as me, which was really really hard!) when nobody was yet in the screen, just the first sounds, the first seconds of the song "Nessaja", you'll know why! Cohen's show starts and, like Roger Ebert pointed out, it "doesn't contain 30 boring seconds". We have of course a plot or well we have Brüno after losing everything he had as a successful fashion reporter (including his lover Diesel; I guess at the part when Brüno drinks champagne and do other stuff with Diesel some were and will be like "that's enough, f*** this movie". I don't think the runtime marks more than 10 minutes when that part happens!), now he will go to the land of opportunities and will try to become a very famous star, "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler" to be exact. Many great dialog like that one and of course all those reactions of the people that meet Brüno during his journey to become a star ("there's a lot of African Americans in Africa!" "No! There's a lot of Africans in Africa!" "That's racist!"). And he tries many things during that journey: to become an actor (he has to be the most active then annoying extra ever!), an interviewer of Hollywood celebrities (Harrison Ford is here, yet...) for his own TV show (the pilot is "worse than cancer" for its audience and well, just extremely f****** gay and hilarious!), the protagonist of a sex tape (poor Ron Paul!), involved in the charity work (what's in?, asks Brüno to the experts and hell, these experts, Nicole and Suzanne DeFosset, take the cake as the dumbest and most hilarious "guests" in the film! Still those parents of the child photo models are quite up there!) and some other things.
All of that sounds quite hilarious, right? Well, the film gets funnier when Brüno tries to become straight (since stars like Cruise, Travolta and Spacey are straight!). Is greatly structured with Brüno talking with Christian converters and in between doing the activities like hunting and learning to fight against dildos (!). Enough, I just add that Brüno is definitely one of my favourites of the year.
Obviously the latest Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles production (the film of Cohen's character Brüno, who is a gay Austrian fashion reporter) is not a Shrek. Brüno was released back in July in the US but just last Friday in Mexico City. I don't think here it will be in theaters more than this first week, today I saw it and aside of my familiars and me in the theater were just about 5 other persons. Having seen Borat (for me not only Sacha Baron Cohen's masterwork but also the most hilarious film of the decade so far) I knew exactly what was going to be Brüno then basically if you enjoyed Borat you will have a truly great time watching this, otherwise you will want to do what a couple that was in the theater today did: leave the theater in the middle of the film, or press the stop button and throw away the DVD/Blu-Ray (yes, while here in Mexico it just arrived a couple of days ago its DVD and Blu- Ray release is near).
I don't think I should write a lot about Bruno since it is basically a Borat, still I will add some more words. The first laughs came (I must add that aside of that couple the other few people in the audience laughed as hard as me, which was really really hard!) when nobody was yet in the screen, just the first sounds, the first seconds of the song "Nessaja", you'll know why! Cohen's show starts and, like Roger Ebert pointed out, it "doesn't contain 30 boring seconds". We have of course a plot or well we have Brüno after losing everything he had as a successful fashion reporter (including his lover Diesel; I guess at the part when Brüno drinks champagne and do other stuff with Diesel some were and will be like "that's enough, f*** this movie". I don't think the runtime marks more than 10 minutes when that part happens!), now he will go to the land of opportunities and will try to become a very famous star, "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler" to be exact. Many great dialog like that one and of course all those reactions of the people that meet Brüno during his journey to become a star ("there's a lot of African Americans in Africa!" "No! There's a lot of Africans in Africa!" "That's racist!"). And he tries many things during that journey: to become an actor (he has to be the most active then annoying extra ever!), an interviewer of Hollywood celebrities (Harrison Ford is here, yet...) for his own TV show (the pilot is "worse than cancer" for its audience and well, just extremely f****** gay and hilarious!), the protagonist of a sex tape (poor Ron Paul!), involved in the charity work (what's in?, asks Brüno to the experts and hell, these experts, Nicole and Suzanne DeFosset, take the cake as the dumbest and most hilarious "guests" in the film! Still those parents of the child photo models are quite up there!) and some other things.
All of that sounds quite hilarious, right? Well, the film gets funnier when Brüno tries to become straight (since stars like Cruise, Travolta and Spacey are straight!). Is greatly structured with Brüno talking with Christian converters and in between doing the activities like hunting and learning to fight against dildos (!). Enough, I just add that Brüno is definitely one of my favourites of the year.