Mani
07-13-2009, 07:05 PM
Someone mentioned this should be a thread of it's own. Please put this topic where appropriate.
Here is a large sampling of what movie critics are saying about Ron Paul in the movie. A couple say negative things about RP using the word *****. A couple took great enjoyment out of it. Some say he acting like anyone would, and a bunch of critics said they felt sorry for him or that it was cruel.
I ignored the reviews that simply stated he was in the movie or was punked, I was looking for reviews that had an opinion on what they saw on the screen.
I listed the link back to the critic if you want to make a comment on the page (some of them have a lot of comments on RP) or if you wanted to send an email to the critic. I also listed if they gave the flick a positive or negative review. Surprisingly a lot of the people who liked the movie, actually didn't think what they did to RP was funny.
(positive review)
...But Brüno's attempts to lure the unsuspecting Ron Paul into bed just come off as unsavory and cruel: Paul politely tries to avoid Brüno's obvious advances, nervously casting his eyes around the room and attempting to pick up some random reading material as a distraction. No matter how you feel about Paul's political views, in this instance he's cast as an older, straight guy who's being made to feel uncomfortable by a performer who'll go to great lengths for a laugh. (In a radio interview, Paul says that Cohen's people had told him he was going to be discussing "Austrian economics.") Paul's anguished embarrassment doesn't make a very good punch line; the best part of the sequence is a quip Brüno makes at the end....
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/revi...uno/index.html
Negative Review:
One ambush was clearly the real thing, a mirthless encounter with Ron Paul, the Libertarian Texas Representative and former presidential candidate, during which Brüno strips seductively to his skivvies. But the result is only embarrassment. Mr. Paul, disgusted, wants nothing more than to be out of there, and you can’t blame him.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...143585126.html
Positive Review:
The more uncomfortable Brüno makes people, the more he draws attention to their petty churlishness and homophobia. When he ambushes the maverick politician Ron Paul with a go-go dance, you can forgive a visibly shaken Paul for thinking Brüno is nuts — though that's hardly an excuse for calling him ''*****.'' Yet is Brüno the scurrilous man-tramp himself a homophobic caricature? My honest answer is: yes and no.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20290024,00.html
(Because ***** is just a horrible insult)..
Positive:
And an attempt to make a sex tape with former presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul probably cost some poor advance person his or her job.
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainmen.../50384917.html
Positive Review:
Enter politician Ron Paul. But when Brüno starts up the sexy music, lights some candles, and begins gyrating his pelvis, Paul flees the room. However, unfortunately for the politician, he does so while raving about Brüno being "*****".
http://movies.about.com/od/bruno/fr/bruno-review.htm
Negative Review:
That includes throwing his crotch at the camera and trying to shoot a sex video with an understandably terrified Ron Paul.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/arti...o_is_no_borat/
Negative review:
...Many setups that seem as though they should work don't. In one scene, Brüno gets former presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room and tries to seduce him. Paul rushes out of the room horrified, and guess what, it's not funny: A serious, accomplished man takes time out to do an interview. He's treated appallingly, reacts with anger ... and we're supposed to think less of him? Don't think so...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=movies
Negative Review:
what's here is that signature blend of funny and disturbing that Cohen has built his brand on. But the movie takes on homophobia, too, and almost none of it works.
There's a guerrilla interview with Ron Paul, back when he was still a maverick candidate for president, that curdles into chaos when Brüno attempts to seduce the understandably freaked-out congressman. "He's *****, crazy, he put a hit on me," Paul exclaims as he storms out.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.28681a8.html
Positive Review:
I felt bad for some of the folks, such as Ron Paul and the poor preacher he picks on.
http://crunchonthis.com/
Positive Review:
At times I thought Baron Cohen's choice of unwitting subjects a little too easy (the climactic cage wrestling match is pretty much a "let's shoot fish in the barrel" moment), and other times a little too queasy (a scene in which Brüno seduces Congressman Ron Paul is undeniably unsettling, yet Baron Cohen justifies his choice of Paul with a misnomer punchline).
http://dc.bilerico.com/2009/07/the_bruno_effect.php
Negative Review:
Cohen goes after Harrison Ford who blows him off beautifully, American Idol’s clueless and gullible Paula Abdul, and politician/former Presidential candidate Ron Paul who gets justifiably angry when he is victim of the most vicious prank of all.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1190/story/642952.html
Positive Review:
But you feel sorry for congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, who is lured into a hotel suite to be interviewed by a foreign “journalist” and finds himself confronted with a prancing fellow in a thong. He reacts about the way you’d expect a hetero 72-year-old male would.
http://www.kansascity.com/710/story/1313793.html
Positive Review:
If you are uncomfortable with the ''gotcha'' nature of prank comedy, know that not everyone comes off like an ignorant bigot: Paula Abdul fares slightly better than Ron Paul (who clearly needs a new publicist),
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertain...y/1133712.html
Positive Review:
http://www.twincities.com/movies/ci_12793237
The best parts are the ones that feel real. Bruno's interview with former presidential candidate Ron Paul, for example, works because it's clear Paul (or "Ru Paul," as Bruno calls him) is genuinely annoyed that Bruno keeps coming on to him.
Negative Review:
It’s also a mean-spirited affair, especially when Bruno makes a sexual pass at former presidential candidate Ron Paul.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sacha-b...-hes-no-borat/
Positive Review:
This is when Bruno scarily scores highest.. not when he tricks former Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul into a hotel bedroom and drops his trousers. It's not funny...it's actually the entrapment of a bewildered old man.
http://movies.sky.com/review/bruno
Positive Review:
But the film's most glorious scene is absolutely real. Bruno interviews Texas congressman and would-be US presidential candidate Ron Paul in his hotel suite, and then attempts to seduce him to create a sex tape that will kickstart his celebrity career. It is sublime. Baron Cohen's nerve is incredible; Paul's outrage and horror are unmistakably the real thing, and the mistaken-identity punchline is a classic. Did Baron Cohen and his writers, Dan Mazer, Pete Baynham, Anthony Hines and Jeff Schaffer, think of the punchline first and then sucker Paul into getting involved? Or did it occur to them later? Either way, it was inspired.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/...m-review-bruno
(f' you guardian)
Positive Review:
Real-life victims include the luckless 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul, cornered in a pre-interview bedroom by a seduction-minded hero before storming incandescently through the exit door, as well as the diehard homophobes set up for shaming. Paul deserved better: his scene seems redundant and a little flesh-creeping. Most other victims in Brüno merit what they get.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d6916590-6...44feabdc0.html
Negative Review:
Somehow, hewangles an interview in a hotel room with one-time US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, who eventually storms outofthe place, complaining, quite truthfully, that his interviewer made a pass at him. I found his affronted reaction perfectly understandable.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...8-1739708.html
Positive Review:
You have to admire Cohen’s brass neck as he attempts to bring peace to the Middle East clad in Hasidic hotpants or tries to seduce clueless Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
http://www.express.co.uk/features/vi...ringe-festival
Negative Review:
Furthermore, the "ambush" mentality of many of the sequences, whether the tactic was necessary or not, further undermines the power of what later ensues. In one scene, Bruno secures an interview with Ron Paul in order to coerce him into participating in a sex tape; while I have no particular sympathy for (or even familiarity with) Paul the politician, I actually felt momentarily sorry for him instead of enjoying the joke. So many of the set-ups are predicated on catching people in inescapable circumstances and then telling them "I'm gay. No, I'm gay! No, I'm GAY!" that when they react with offense (or more often, mild discomfort), their reaction feels too engineered to be meaningful as cultural commentary or even just good comedy.
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/09/review-bruno/
Negative Review:
When the bits are undoubtedly spontaneous, moreover, they’re too often just nasty. One involving a clearly unprepared Ron Paul, for example, is likely to leave you more queasy than amused. It epitomizes what, in the final analysis, is the worst offense of “Bruno”—its utter smugness.
http://www.oneguysopinion.com/Review.php?ID=2819
Positive Review:
After this fiasco, Brüno decides he needs to make a celebrity sex tape and confuses senior Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul with RuPaul (something I doubt Brüno would do) and Ron Paul's reaction proves two things - most people try to be polite even in extreme situations and when unwanted behavior is shoved in your face, declaring 'Something ***** is going on here' is a perfectly legitimate response.
http://www.reelingreviews.com/bruno.htm
Positive:
Enter politician Ron Paul. But when Brüno starts up the sexy music, lights some candles, and begins gyrating his pelvis, Paul flees the room. However, unfortunately for the politician, he does so while raving about Brüno being "*****".
http://movies.about.com/od/bruno/fr/bruno-review.htm
Positive Review:
The more uncomfortable Brüno makes people, the more he draws attention to their petty churlishness and homophobia. When he ambushes the maverick politician Ron Paul with a go-go dance, you can forgive a visibly shaken Paul for thinking Brüno is nuts — though that's hardly an excuse for calling him ''*****.'' Yet is Brüno the scurrilous man-tramp himself a homophobic caricature? My honest answer is: yes and no.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20290024,00.html
Negative Review:
Indeed, many of his "victims" are surprisingly patient. Just because U.S. Rep. Ron Paul eventually runs from a flirtatious strip-tease doesn't mean that his libertarian pronouncements about private behavior are hypocritical.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ent...7?OpenDocument
Positive Review:
Some scenes, however, strike a wrong chord, such as one in which former presidential candidate Ron Paul is duped into participating in a sit-down with Baron Cohen that is a bait-and-switch for something sleazier. Watching this is uncomfortable in the same way it was uncomfortable to struggle through Michael Moore's unwarranted mugging of Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine. Even the punch-line - that Brüno thought the politician was RuPaul (the drag queen) - isn't funny.
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_...dentifier=1708
Positive Review:
The hilarity is stratospherically outrageous, producing gags that pull you up short...a politician (Ron Paul) who spits out the word "*****";
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...28816322/bruno
Negative Review:
The low points in this movie aren't just catastrophic: they're bewildering. The movie just about dies when Bruno spends endless minutes miming oral sex with a dead celebrity as a mortified medium tries not to look at him. The scene in which Bruno tries to seduce Ron Paul for a makeshift porn film is excruciating.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertai...,6182581.story
Negative Review:
Toothless hillbillies, religious conservatives, even unglamorous politician Ron Paul who is subjected to unwanted advances, get pilloried. (“I couldn’t even shtup RuPaul,” Bruno sighs.) Ambush humor is mistaken for a form of political debate. As practiced by Baron Cohen, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Michael Moore, it signifies how low comedy has sunk during the era of Anti-Bush Liberal Backlash.
http://www.nypress.com/article-20054...he-cinema.html
Positive Review:
At one point, he decides that fame can be acquired by releasing a celebrity sex tape – if he can find a celebrity to have sex with him. His choice: former presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas, who bolts like a gazelle when he figures out that Bruno is, in fact, hitting on him.
http://hollywoodandfine.com/reviews/?p=1162
Positive Review:
Is Congressman Ron Paul, whom Brüno chooses to confuse with RuPaul, really that clueless or was the Republican presidential candidate only desperate for publicity in allowing himself to be inveigled into Brüno's hotel room for an "interview"? It hardly matters. That desperation is Brüno's universal principle.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-...d-for-humpday/
Positive Review:
The formula is repeated here, but it's very hit-and-miss. Bruno's hunting excursion with four straight men from Alabama is funny. His attempted seduction of former US presidential candidate Ron Paul is not.
http://guides.news.com.au/couriermai...0&review=77815
Positive Review:
Are we made to feel superior to said butts? But(t) of course! And some of them have it coming. I loved watching (through my fingers) as Brüno tried to manipulate right-wing moralist Ron Paul into taking it up the Hershey Highway for a gay sex tape.
http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/57754/
Positive Review:
It's closely followed by a cringe worthy segment in which Bruno tries to seduce recent Presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room, and while Paul hardly covers himself in glory with his reaction, the joke itself seems unnecessarily cruel in the first place.
http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/100/1000692p1.html
Positive REview:
In both provocative ventures, Cohen cajoles real, unsuspecting people into awkward situations - with hysterical consequences.
This time, Cohen crassly exploits the attitudinal discomfort known as homophobia that's created when heterosexuals, particularly men, encounter aggressive homosexuality. In one scene, sex-crazed Bruno inveigles Representative Ron Paul into his hotel room and tries to seduce him on the pretext of interviewing him about economics; after maintaining his dignity as long as possible, the conservative Texas congressman exits the premises in disgust, muttering, "This guy's a *****. He's crazy!"
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brun...out_loud_funny
Positive Review:
And, because his creator is, at heart, such a fine actor, Bruno is also amazingly likeable. Even when he’s doing something horrendous, like trying to seduce a frightened Ron Paul or take interview advantage of Paula Abdul.
http://themovieminute.com/photo3.html
Negative Review:
Pic takes a fateful turn toward the queasy, from which it never entirely recovers, with a noxious "Gotcha!" sequence in which Ron Paul, the libertarian-minded recent presidential aspirant, is played for a sap. Charitably willing to sit for an interview, the clearly clueless politico is led into a bedroom, upon which Bruno begins stripping as if in preparation for a tryst. When Paul realizes he's been set up, he storms out and furiously calls his captor a "*****" a couple of times, which will no doubt rankle some of his erstwhile supporters. But his epithets arguably pale in comparison with the venality of his predator's arachnidan motives.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117...goryid=31&cs=1
Here is a large sampling of what movie critics are saying about Ron Paul in the movie. A couple say negative things about RP using the word *****. A couple took great enjoyment out of it. Some say he acting like anyone would, and a bunch of critics said they felt sorry for him or that it was cruel.
I ignored the reviews that simply stated he was in the movie or was punked, I was looking for reviews that had an opinion on what they saw on the screen.
I listed the link back to the critic if you want to make a comment on the page (some of them have a lot of comments on RP) or if you wanted to send an email to the critic. I also listed if they gave the flick a positive or negative review. Surprisingly a lot of the people who liked the movie, actually didn't think what they did to RP was funny.
(positive review)
...But Brüno's attempts to lure the unsuspecting Ron Paul into bed just come off as unsavory and cruel: Paul politely tries to avoid Brüno's obvious advances, nervously casting his eyes around the room and attempting to pick up some random reading material as a distraction. No matter how you feel about Paul's political views, in this instance he's cast as an older, straight guy who's being made to feel uncomfortable by a performer who'll go to great lengths for a laugh. (In a radio interview, Paul says that Cohen's people had told him he was going to be discussing "Austrian economics.") Paul's anguished embarrassment doesn't make a very good punch line; the best part of the sequence is a quip Brüno makes at the end....
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/revi...uno/index.html
Negative Review:
One ambush was clearly the real thing, a mirthless encounter with Ron Paul, the Libertarian Texas Representative and former presidential candidate, during which Brüno strips seductively to his skivvies. But the result is only embarrassment. Mr. Paul, disgusted, wants nothing more than to be out of there, and you can’t blame him.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...143585126.html
Positive Review:
The more uncomfortable Brüno makes people, the more he draws attention to their petty churlishness and homophobia. When he ambushes the maverick politician Ron Paul with a go-go dance, you can forgive a visibly shaken Paul for thinking Brüno is nuts — though that's hardly an excuse for calling him ''*****.'' Yet is Brüno the scurrilous man-tramp himself a homophobic caricature? My honest answer is: yes and no.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20290024,00.html
(Because ***** is just a horrible insult)..
Positive:
And an attempt to make a sex tape with former presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul probably cost some poor advance person his or her job.
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainmen.../50384917.html
Positive Review:
Enter politician Ron Paul. But when Brüno starts up the sexy music, lights some candles, and begins gyrating his pelvis, Paul flees the room. However, unfortunately for the politician, he does so while raving about Brüno being "*****".
http://movies.about.com/od/bruno/fr/bruno-review.htm
Negative Review:
That includes throwing his crotch at the camera and trying to shoot a sex video with an understandably terrified Ron Paul.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/arti...o_is_no_borat/
Negative review:
...Many setups that seem as though they should work don't. In one scene, Brüno gets former presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room and tries to seduce him. Paul rushes out of the room horrified, and guess what, it's not funny: A serious, accomplished man takes time out to do an interview. He's treated appallingly, reacts with anger ... and we're supposed to think less of him? Don't think so...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=movies
Negative Review:
what's here is that signature blend of funny and disturbing that Cohen has built his brand on. But the movie takes on homophobia, too, and almost none of it works.
There's a guerrilla interview with Ron Paul, back when he was still a maverick candidate for president, that curdles into chaos when Brüno attempts to seduce the understandably freaked-out congressman. "He's *****, crazy, he put a hit on me," Paul exclaims as he storms out.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.28681a8.html
Positive Review:
I felt bad for some of the folks, such as Ron Paul and the poor preacher he picks on.
http://crunchonthis.com/
Positive Review:
At times I thought Baron Cohen's choice of unwitting subjects a little too easy (the climactic cage wrestling match is pretty much a "let's shoot fish in the barrel" moment), and other times a little too queasy (a scene in which Brüno seduces Congressman Ron Paul is undeniably unsettling, yet Baron Cohen justifies his choice of Paul with a misnomer punchline).
http://dc.bilerico.com/2009/07/the_bruno_effect.php
Negative Review:
Cohen goes after Harrison Ford who blows him off beautifully, American Idol’s clueless and gullible Paula Abdul, and politician/former Presidential candidate Ron Paul who gets justifiably angry when he is victim of the most vicious prank of all.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1190/story/642952.html
Positive Review:
But you feel sorry for congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, who is lured into a hotel suite to be interviewed by a foreign “journalist” and finds himself confronted with a prancing fellow in a thong. He reacts about the way you’d expect a hetero 72-year-old male would.
http://www.kansascity.com/710/story/1313793.html
Positive Review:
If you are uncomfortable with the ''gotcha'' nature of prank comedy, know that not everyone comes off like an ignorant bigot: Paula Abdul fares slightly better than Ron Paul (who clearly needs a new publicist),
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertain...y/1133712.html
Positive Review:
http://www.twincities.com/movies/ci_12793237
The best parts are the ones that feel real. Bruno's interview with former presidential candidate Ron Paul, for example, works because it's clear Paul (or "Ru Paul," as Bruno calls him) is genuinely annoyed that Bruno keeps coming on to him.
Negative Review:
It’s also a mean-spirited affair, especially when Bruno makes a sexual pass at former presidential candidate Ron Paul.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sacha-b...-hes-no-borat/
Positive Review:
This is when Bruno scarily scores highest.. not when he tricks former Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul into a hotel bedroom and drops his trousers. It's not funny...it's actually the entrapment of a bewildered old man.
http://movies.sky.com/review/bruno
Positive Review:
But the film's most glorious scene is absolutely real. Bruno interviews Texas congressman and would-be US presidential candidate Ron Paul in his hotel suite, and then attempts to seduce him to create a sex tape that will kickstart his celebrity career. It is sublime. Baron Cohen's nerve is incredible; Paul's outrage and horror are unmistakably the real thing, and the mistaken-identity punchline is a classic. Did Baron Cohen and his writers, Dan Mazer, Pete Baynham, Anthony Hines and Jeff Schaffer, think of the punchline first and then sucker Paul into getting involved? Or did it occur to them later? Either way, it was inspired.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/...m-review-bruno
(f' you guardian)
Positive Review:
Real-life victims include the luckless 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul, cornered in a pre-interview bedroom by a seduction-minded hero before storming incandescently through the exit door, as well as the diehard homophobes set up for shaming. Paul deserved better: his scene seems redundant and a little flesh-creeping. Most other victims in Brüno merit what they get.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d6916590-6...44feabdc0.html
Negative Review:
Somehow, hewangles an interview in a hotel room with one-time US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, who eventually storms outofthe place, complaining, quite truthfully, that his interviewer made a pass at him. I found his affronted reaction perfectly understandable.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...8-1739708.html
Positive Review:
You have to admire Cohen’s brass neck as he attempts to bring peace to the Middle East clad in Hasidic hotpants or tries to seduce clueless Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
http://www.express.co.uk/features/vi...ringe-festival
Negative Review:
Furthermore, the "ambush" mentality of many of the sequences, whether the tactic was necessary or not, further undermines the power of what later ensues. In one scene, Bruno secures an interview with Ron Paul in order to coerce him into participating in a sex tape; while I have no particular sympathy for (or even familiarity with) Paul the politician, I actually felt momentarily sorry for him instead of enjoying the joke. So many of the set-ups are predicated on catching people in inescapable circumstances and then telling them "I'm gay. No, I'm gay! No, I'm GAY!" that when they react with offense (or more often, mild discomfort), their reaction feels too engineered to be meaningful as cultural commentary or even just good comedy.
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/09/review-bruno/
Negative Review:
When the bits are undoubtedly spontaneous, moreover, they’re too often just nasty. One involving a clearly unprepared Ron Paul, for example, is likely to leave you more queasy than amused. It epitomizes what, in the final analysis, is the worst offense of “Bruno”—its utter smugness.
http://www.oneguysopinion.com/Review.php?ID=2819
Positive Review:
After this fiasco, Brüno decides he needs to make a celebrity sex tape and confuses senior Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul with RuPaul (something I doubt Brüno would do) and Ron Paul's reaction proves two things - most people try to be polite even in extreme situations and when unwanted behavior is shoved in your face, declaring 'Something ***** is going on here' is a perfectly legitimate response.
http://www.reelingreviews.com/bruno.htm
Positive:
Enter politician Ron Paul. But when Brüno starts up the sexy music, lights some candles, and begins gyrating his pelvis, Paul flees the room. However, unfortunately for the politician, he does so while raving about Brüno being "*****".
http://movies.about.com/od/bruno/fr/bruno-review.htm
Positive Review:
The more uncomfortable Brüno makes people, the more he draws attention to their petty churlishness and homophobia. When he ambushes the maverick politician Ron Paul with a go-go dance, you can forgive a visibly shaken Paul for thinking Brüno is nuts — though that's hardly an excuse for calling him ''*****.'' Yet is Brüno the scurrilous man-tramp himself a homophobic caricature? My honest answer is: yes and no.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20290024,00.html
Negative Review:
Indeed, many of his "victims" are surprisingly patient. Just because U.S. Rep. Ron Paul eventually runs from a flirtatious strip-tease doesn't mean that his libertarian pronouncements about private behavior are hypocritical.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ent...7?OpenDocument
Positive Review:
Some scenes, however, strike a wrong chord, such as one in which former presidential candidate Ron Paul is duped into participating in a sit-down with Baron Cohen that is a bait-and-switch for something sleazier. Watching this is uncomfortable in the same way it was uncomfortable to struggle through Michael Moore's unwarranted mugging of Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine. Even the punch-line - that Brüno thought the politician was RuPaul (the drag queen) - isn't funny.
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_...dentifier=1708
Positive Review:
The hilarity is stratospherically outrageous, producing gags that pull you up short...a politician (Ron Paul) who spits out the word "*****";
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...28816322/bruno
Negative Review:
The low points in this movie aren't just catastrophic: they're bewildering. The movie just about dies when Bruno spends endless minutes miming oral sex with a dead celebrity as a mortified medium tries not to look at him. The scene in which Bruno tries to seduce Ron Paul for a makeshift porn film is excruciating.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertai...,6182581.story
Negative Review:
Toothless hillbillies, religious conservatives, even unglamorous politician Ron Paul who is subjected to unwanted advances, get pilloried. (“I couldn’t even shtup RuPaul,” Bruno sighs.) Ambush humor is mistaken for a form of political debate. As practiced by Baron Cohen, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Michael Moore, it signifies how low comedy has sunk during the era of Anti-Bush Liberal Backlash.
http://www.nypress.com/article-20054...he-cinema.html
Positive Review:
At one point, he decides that fame can be acquired by releasing a celebrity sex tape – if he can find a celebrity to have sex with him. His choice: former presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas, who bolts like a gazelle when he figures out that Bruno is, in fact, hitting on him.
http://hollywoodandfine.com/reviews/?p=1162
Positive Review:
Is Congressman Ron Paul, whom Brüno chooses to confuse with RuPaul, really that clueless or was the Republican presidential candidate only desperate for publicity in allowing himself to be inveigled into Brüno's hotel room for an "interview"? It hardly matters. That desperation is Brüno's universal principle.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-...d-for-humpday/
Positive Review:
The formula is repeated here, but it's very hit-and-miss. Bruno's hunting excursion with four straight men from Alabama is funny. His attempted seduction of former US presidential candidate Ron Paul is not.
http://guides.news.com.au/couriermai...0&review=77815
Positive Review:
Are we made to feel superior to said butts? But(t) of course! And some of them have it coming. I loved watching (through my fingers) as Brüno tried to manipulate right-wing moralist Ron Paul into taking it up the Hershey Highway for a gay sex tape.
http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/57754/
Positive Review:
It's closely followed by a cringe worthy segment in which Bruno tries to seduce recent Presidential candidate Ron Paul in a hotel room, and while Paul hardly covers himself in glory with his reaction, the joke itself seems unnecessarily cruel in the first place.
http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/100/1000692p1.html
Positive REview:
In both provocative ventures, Cohen cajoles real, unsuspecting people into awkward situations - with hysterical consequences.
This time, Cohen crassly exploits the attitudinal discomfort known as homophobia that's created when heterosexuals, particularly men, encounter aggressive homosexuality. In one scene, sex-crazed Bruno inveigles Representative Ron Paul into his hotel room and tries to seduce him on the pretext of interviewing him about economics; after maintaining his dignity as long as possible, the conservative Texas congressman exits the premises in disgust, muttering, "This guy's a *****. He's crazy!"
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brun...out_loud_funny
Positive Review:
And, because his creator is, at heart, such a fine actor, Bruno is also amazingly likeable. Even when he’s doing something horrendous, like trying to seduce a frightened Ron Paul or take interview advantage of Paula Abdul.
http://themovieminute.com/photo3.html
Negative Review:
Pic takes a fateful turn toward the queasy, from which it never entirely recovers, with a noxious "Gotcha!" sequence in which Ron Paul, the libertarian-minded recent presidential aspirant, is played for a sap. Charitably willing to sit for an interview, the clearly clueless politico is led into a bedroom, upon which Bruno begins stripping as if in preparation for a tryst. When Paul realizes he's been set up, he storms out and furiously calls his captor a "*****" a couple of times, which will no doubt rankle some of his erstwhile supporters. But his epithets arguably pale in comparison with the venality of his predator's arachnidan motives.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117...goryid=31&cs=1