Looks like I’ll be seeing Bruno
10th July 2009
Ebert likes Bruno
I don’t always agree with Roger Ebert’s movie choices, but I love his reviews because he’s very good at giving me a sense of whether or not I’d enjoy a particular film. I was on the fence about whether or not to see Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest movie, because I thought Borat was mostly boring and unfunny. But Bruno definitely sounds like a winner:
“Bruno” is a no-holds-barred comedy permitting several holds I had not dreamed of. The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity. Here is a film that is 82 minutes long and doesn’t contain 30 boring seconds.
Sold.
As for the new Transformers movie, I think I’ll pass:
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.
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