We put Brüno and Borat through RALPH.com’s cack test.
Shock value
Brüno tries to launch his Austrian fashion TV show in America by having it previewed by a market research group. At the end of his TV show, a
real dick dances to techno music and the eye of his schlong shouts “Brünoooo”. The funniest part is the shocked looks on the focus group members.
Borat masturbates in public over a mannequin. In another scene, he takes a dump and gives it to his conservative dinner hosts in a small plastic bag.
Brüno Cack rating: ****
Winner: It’s a draw
Gags
Brüno spars with a black belt karate instructor, using massive dildos and a strap-on as a
weapon. While on a live talkback show, Brüno confesses he swapped his iPod for an African baby, who wears a T-shirt with the words “Gayby.”
Brüno Cack rating *****
Winner: Brüno
Outrageous costumes
It seems both Sacha Baron Cohen characters love showing a bit more than plumbers crack, but it’s Borat's mankini, rather than Brüno's bright yellow tight lederhosen, that gets the biggest laugh. Especially when the mankini makes an appearance at the cricket or on a bucks party.
Brüno Cack rating ****
Winner: Borat
Storyline
Both flicks have a very similar plot, with Brüno and Borat both leaving their home country to make it big in the US. Although Brüno makes a detour to the Middle East to humourously negotiate peace talks with Hamas and Israel, it’s during their search for fame that both blokes manage to show some Seppos to be homophobic,
gun-obsessed rednecks.
Brüno Cack rating: ****
Winner: Brüno
Girls
Borat may feature former
Playboy cover girl Pamela Anderson, but at least in Brüno no we get to see another
busty blonde in her birthday suit. Bruno tries the straight life when he visits a swingers' party, where he's whipped so much by a sexy nipple-pierced dominatrix, he falls out the window.
Cack rating ****
Winner: Brüno
Overall winner: Brüno
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