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Fri 07 Jul 2009Bruno
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest send-up is funny if a bit too self-satisfied. Still, there’s something to offend everyone, writes DONALD CLARKE
NOBODY WOULD deny that Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen’s smash from 2007, was – or then seemed to be – one of a kind. Elements of real life had crept into comedies before, but nobody else had managed to generate so much excruciating laughter by pointing a fictional moron at members of the public. Most impressively, it felt like a real film with a middle that actually came after the beginning and before the end. We had never seen its like before and we would never see its like again.
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