Bruno (2009)

Someone needs to audit this documentary-style comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen to determine how many of its players — its US police officers and focus group participants and army sergeants and gay conversion therapists and hotel concierges and aspiring baby model moms — are plants in on the joke and how many are actually American citizens caught up in Cohen's audacious web, because surely Cohen would have been killed were everyone here exactly who they are purported to be — Americans having both their greatest quality — their polite and gracious accommodation of others — and their worst quality - their ugly extreme right-wing conservatism — thrust back in their faces by Cohen's  outrageous persona, the wrong-on-so-many-levels but hilarious follow-up to Borat, Bruno the fame-hungry homosexual Austrian!

★★★★☆

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