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Article: Bruno
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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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 thatBorat, 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.
That's not quite how things have worked out. It would, I suppose,
be fair to ...