BRUNO NO BORAT

Bruno most likely won't have legs

In last week's New York Times review of Sacha Baron Cohen's mad, bad, sad and GLAAD

Bruno, I thought that journo AO Scott was a tad wankerish with his take on 83 celluiod minutes with Austria's faux fashion queen.

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And while Scott's lukewarmer was perhaps more due to some of the racist humour in Bruno than anything else, the fact of the matter is that Bruno was always the weakest of Cohen's three TV HBO Ali G Show characters, more of a chuckle than the roars that Borat elicited.

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Despite Bruno's limitations, there are still some good 20 to 30 guffaws and laughs in the film, although straight men may find themselves squirming a bit in their seats as (real) swinging dicks fill the screen, and (fake) anal props deflower various Bruno boyfriends.

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The premise of the movie-Bruno wants to be famous-and will go to extraordinary lengths to do so, is somewhat of a Borat rerun, as most of the shenanigans take place in the United States where various schmucks are ambushed by Cohen as they display their prejudices and stupidities.

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Especially telling is a segment wherein Bruno is interviewing-for real-showbiz "mothers" who whore their children for just about any movie job available-

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One (very) vacuous mom even agrees to have her child submit to liposuction and wear a full Nazi SS uniform whilst pushing a wheelbarrow containing a Jewish child into an oven.

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Get the point?

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In any event, the movies infamous finale, a cage match down in Alabama with rednecks screaming for blood when Bruno reunites with his (lover) assistant after a failed attempt at going straight is, I think, a metaphor for what the world needs now is love, sweet love. That's the only thing there's far too little of.

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Still, can't wait for the DVD!