SPOILER ALERT (Actually a Negative Stereotype Alert)

Rating: 2/10 (19 March 2016)

The script of "Hail Caesar!" is a story about the Hollywood of 1951, as if it was penned IN the time of 1951 by someone under the employ of Howard Hughes, or Roy Cohn, two Communist baiters of the mid 20th century. In the story Channing Tatum plays a foo-foo dog loving, tap dancing, Communist/homosexual, who betrays the USA for the Soviet Union. This negative stereotype is played straight up, as if homosexuals were clearly all the above, and nothing else. This Cohen brothers plot device is a slap-in-the-face to any gay American, especially those of a certain age, who remember the 1950's. Back then we were led to believe homosexuals were evil Communists, and vice versa. I wanted to like this movie. Sometimes I was the only person laughing at this movie, but after that anti-gay broadside, I envied the people who left halfway through this movie.