
The film follows the Borat template: exiled from the Euro fashion world, Bruno seeks another avenue of fame in the US, attended to by his mistreated assistant. Interesting scenes include seeing Paula Abdul seated on a Mexican workman posing as furniture, a day time talk show in Dallas where baby OJ is introduced to the world, a 'Christian' pastor who specializes in 'curing' gay men, (and another with some very strange and patronizing views on women) and a photo call in California where mothers (and one equally frightening father) are apparently willing to prostitute their toddlers or sell their souls to the devil for the chance of having their kid be on TV. One mother agrees her child can undergo liposuction to lose weight. This baby is all of 3 years old, if that. (9/21/2009)
Positives: If you liked the premise of Borat, you'll find a lot of things amusing. Not quite as much as Borat, but along those lines. Bruno has a couple of one-liners and some scenes that are quite funny, but the plot was much better in Borat.
Negatives: Unlike the Borat character who was able to elicit genuine responses because his behavior seemed to stem more from his background of poverty-based ignorance, Bruno is simply a self-serving a-hole. The sequences that play this up are the ones that don't work: Bruno goes hunting, Bruno joins the army, Bruno interviews some swingers. Bruno aims to provoke a homophobic response, but the "victims" seems to be responding less to Bruno being gay, than to Bruno being a jerk.