Brüno (2009)

Not quite as funny as Borat was, but leaps and bounds more outrageous and shocking. Sacha Baron Cohen definitely tried to push the envelope a lot farther in this one.

Brüno is a gay, Austrian fashionista who happens to run his own show in Austria. After a series of unfortunate events, he is dropped from his network and decides to head west to the US. He has one sidekick to help him through his journey to become a very famous actor. Brüno has trouble getting started, so he tries to hype up himself by doing all sorts of ridiculous things that he reads about celebrities doing in the tabloids. From adopting African babies to becoming straight. As he meanders his way through the country, he truly finds himself...I guess.

This movie was laugh out loud funny and just kept me wondering what he would do next. There were definitely a few awkward moments that you wish you wouldn't laugh at but did anyways. There was a thought that maybe he was just doing some things to be "out there" and not try and comment on social stigmas. However, when he focused on those stigmas, the film was terrific.