by Trey Graham

We're just a couple of weeks away from the big-screen debut of Bruno, the outré Austrian fashion reporter who sprang, swishing, from the mind of satirist Sacha Baron Cohen.

And like his similarly fictional Kazakh cousin Borat, Bruno can pretty much be counted on to annoy, offend, and otherwise outrage any number of constituencies — starting of course with The Gays, one group of whom have already taken the studio to task.

Bruno. Photo: Universal Pictures

Meeow: Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen) has catlike instincts ... for saying (and wearing) the wrong things. Universal Pictures

But just what percentage of the planet's inhabitants might reasonably take umbrage once the movie, like Bruno, finally comes out? Neda Ulaby and Linda Holmes had a look at the trailer to see if they could come up with a solid guess.

You're cordially invited to click the Play button and count along — hat-tip to multimedia intern Caryn Grant for getting those annotations onscreen — as we I.D. the soon-to-be-steam-eared populations. (Be sure to click the player's full-screen button, lower right.) And then, of course, we'd love to hear your suggestions in the comments.

categories: Movies

7:16 - June 18, 2009

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