On second thought, maybe sensible people could appreciate it and take it for what it is.

On a whole I didn't find it as funny as Borat. And I closed my eyes during the spinning-penis bit.

Yeah, I did too. My husband told me I missed a good part when it talked but I didn't care.

I loved Borat and at the same time thought it was cruel.

I might end up renting this one eventually, but in no hurry to see it. Which, it seems, is what a lot of people think of it.

Yeah, I cringe when people are unsuspecting. I couldn't watch Borat. I watched it at home and ran out of the room a dozen times.

Last night the guy in the box office told us that we could not receive a refund if we watched 30 minutes or more of the movie. The ticket taker cackled, "have fun!"

As a gay guy watching this with my partner, among a mostly straight audience who loudly EEEEW'd at the full frontal shots, it was a trip. Ultimately, I admire the guy for putting himself so directly in the line of fire. And the fact that this is a film intended for a general, not gay, audience -- but it's about a gay character making fools of some of the worst imaginable homophobes -- gives me no small sense that the mainstream is moving toward greater acceptance and inclusion.

It does leave a bit puzzled and troubled in some surprising (for me) ways, though. I had a really hard time sitting through the scenes with the "ex-homosexual" evangelicals. Having come from an evangelical background, this took me back to too many emotional/psychological places I wasn't prepared to go. But in those moments, the Bruno character struck me as a kind of superhero, unafraid to go places I thought I couldn't handle. And yet, he was a straight guy playing a gay stereotype for laughs . . .