Remember ‘Borat?”  One of the most offensive, xenophobic, politically incorrect, critically acclaimed, and absolutely hilarious satires in cinema history?  Me too.  It was a glorious middle finger of sorts to the tiresome tip-toe act we’ve been forced into to make sure we don’t offend any sensitive minority organizations or counter-culture groups.

Sacha Baron Cohen, the film’s creator and star, has literally been celebrated across the globe for defying our culture of political correctness in pursuit of of comedy and social commentary.  But Cohen’s new film, “Bruno,” in which he plays an openly gay man, has been brutally criticized by Hollywood’s gay community causing him to shockingly conduct “significant reshoots,”  according to The Wrap.

There are reportedly concerns “…that the film excluded gays from the filmmaking process and that when they were consulted, filmmakers did not address their concerns that the film was a distortion of homosexuality.”

Universal Pictures, which is opening the film on July 10, neither confirmed nor denied the report when contacted.

Openly gay writer-director, Mike White (“School of Rock”), was shown the film weeks ago and found the Bruno character to represent fetishism rather than a comedic stereotype of gays in general, and said, “People are going to have a range of reactions to the film. I’m excited for people to see the movie, because it’s going to generate a lot of interesting discussions.”

If the report is true, perhaps Cohen isn’t the innovator we thought he was