New at Reason: Peter Suderman on Brüno

July 9, 2009

Brüno, the latest film from guerrilla provocateurs Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles, is an 88-minute exercise is outrage and offense. It's funny, though not quite as painfully hysterical as the duo's last film, Borat, and intermittently reveals flashes of obscene genius. But funny as the movie is, writes Associate Editor Peter Suderman, the subdermal bigotry the filmmakers seem to be chasing barely surfaces, and then only when provoked. In Brüno, America faces down the gayest of the gay, and, for the most part, acquits itself rather well.

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