Bruno - OMG

I like to think of myself as being broad minded. I have grown up watching
movies when I was young. I managed to watch the so called "video nasties" of
the 70's and 80's. I have read a fair amount of horror books. I have grown
up with a group of mates who have been at sometime in their lives "lads" and
we have discussed the usual lads subjects. So I consider myself to have a
thick skin, nothing shocks me and very few films now surprise me. Which in
fact makes me need to switch my brain off when watching most films so I can
enjoy the ride.

Enter Orange Wednesday A great scheme if you have an Orange phone here in the UK.I got a free PAYG
SIM from their website for this exact purpose. On a Wednesday you send an
SMS to 241 and you get a message back with a code. You take the code to the
cinema when purchasing the tickets and you get a 2 for the price of 1
ticket. In this time where the movie industry feel they need to charge some
very high prices for entrance into the cinema (to bolster their pockets and
keep themselves in the ways they were accustomed to). This is a very much
welcomed offer.

This week we used the Orange Wednesday offer to go and see
Bruno. It was a tough call. I actually wanted to see Public Enemies but a poll of
friends swayed towards Bruno. Which is fine I would see either, no problem.

I think Sacha Baron Cohen is a clever man, a new media comedian. The
characters that he creates are brilliant, he manages to capture all aspects
of a person when he creates the character. Borat was proof of this. Bruno
takes this a step further.

Cohen follows the same formula that was employed by his previous characters
and uses his relatively unknown status to interview members of the global
public for shocking outcomes. Bruno takes this to next level far surpassing
the painful and brilliant moments in Borat. I think this is the last time
Cohen can do this mind you.

The first 10mins of Bruno are rather explosive and set you up nicely for the
remainder of the film. I laughed and laughed and laughed throughout the
film, sometimes when others were not. I think sometimes the laughter was
perhaps a laughter of disbelief that someone has actually made a film about
this type of humour or had the balls to tell that particular joke.

I came out the film glad I had seen it, but instantly forgetting the purpose
of the film.

Going back to where I started. Having built a thick skin Bruno still managed
to shock or rather surprise or perhaps both.

Would I go and see it again? Probably!!!
Is it worth watching? Yes
Orange Wednesday? Rocks