The Feed  Sean Daly, Michelle Stark and Sharon Kennedy Wynne  Is
there a difference between the stereotypes in Bruno and
Transformers 2?  Bruno It's easy to look like a poor sport when
you're talking about negative stereotypes in film and TV.  The
latest flap along those lines involve two of summer's most
anticipated movies: Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno and the whiz-band
action film Transformers 2.  Some critics have already taken aim
at Bruno, denouncing Cohen's in-your-face mockumentary centered
on a cartoonishly effeminate and hyper-sexual fashionista as a
gay minstrel show.  Writing in Salon, David Rakoff provides a
typically caustic review, calling the Bruno character "an open
hydrant of empty, venal ignorance" and denouncing the film as
"bad for gays" over its too-broad attempts to provoke homophobic
reactions from unsuspecting people.  Other critics have lodged
similar complaints against Transformers 2, noting that two new
robot characters, Skids and Mudflap, talk in a patios normally
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