Brüno

There can’t be anyone left in America who sees Sacha Baron Cohen coming with his handlers and legal waivers and doesn’t expect to be thoroughly punked. Can there? Apparently so: advance word on Cohen’s latest, in which his outré Austrian fashion plate character manages to outrage some of our more homophobic citizens, is that it’s just as merrily offensive as ‘‘Borat.’’

— Wesley Morris and Ty Burr, Globe Staff