So Long Transformers

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Those Idiotic, Jive-Talkin' Robots Won't Be Back in 'Transformers 3' After All

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by: Will Leitch
Today, America is a little more whole. 20th Century Fox So much about "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" was horrible that picking a least favorite moment is like choosing between your children, if you kinda hated your children. But you really can't fall much farther than "Mudflap" and "Skids," the "urban" robots that, as The New York Times' Manohla Dargis' rightly said, "have been given conspicuously cartoonish, so-called black voices that indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas." Director Michael Bay defended Mudflap and Skids (who, in the year 2009, had gold teeth and bug ears), claiming, "We're just putting more personality in. I don't know if it's stereotypes -- they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it."
But even Bay is smart enough to avoid more controversy while he can, claiming Monday on the official Michael Bay fan board -- oh, by the way America, there are Michael Bay fan boards -- that the twins will not appear in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."
A fan blog tried to get fired up that Bay was lying, with reports that new and "improved" versions of Mudflap and Skids were seen on the set yesterday, but they have the date wrong on the post; the post they're referencing is more than a year old. So it looks like there will not in fact be awful stereotypes of African-Americans as portrayed by robots from an alien planet in the third "Transformers" movie. In Michael Bay's brain, perhaps this is considered progress.

[LWM]

Bye ....Bye

[Romeloc]

they were a dissapointment in the last transformers. I hope this Transfomers is more serious.

[esperman]

Originally Posted by Romeloc

they were a dissapointment in the last transformers. I hope this Transfomers is more serious.

disappointment pretty much sums up the whole movie.

[alexw]

TFW2005 FTW .

[Phail]

Man people get so rilled up over petty crap. It was comic relief thrown in for the kids, get over yourself folks. It's always a damn politically incorrect pissing contest these days.

[Jajru]

Originally Posted by Phail

Man people get so rilled up over petty crap. It was comic relief thrown in for the kids, get over yourself folks. It's always a damn politically incorrect pissing contest these days.

+1

[SSOOCH]

Originally Posted by Romeloc

I hope this Transfomers is more serious.

There robots from outer space!

[=Stephens=]

Its a movie.....stop trying to analyze it and just watch it. LOL

[Mr. Wyndham]

Really? Stereotyping??

My God are we that Politically Correct that we can't have a couple of comic relief characters in a movie about robots???



I'll miss the twins...:(

[scythezo6]

I will agree with the "minstrelsy" statement. Those 2 robots were annoying and I'm happy they are gone. I don't really care that much and I'm not going to start a protest or whatever. Just sayin.

[Steve Dallas]

Originally Posted by =Stephens=

Its a movie.....stop trying to analyze it and just watch it. LOL

Transformers wasn't a movie.

It was something put out by Michael Bay, the antichrist of the filmmaking industry. I suppose the only thing worse than Michael Bay would be McG or Uwe Boll...but not by much.

[Synyster]

... I thought they were hilarious...

[WadeWilson]

Originally Posted by esperman

disappointment pretty much sums up the whole movie.

I agree for the most part. There were a couple of scenes that I enjoyed in the movie, but as a whole I was extremely disappointed. I don't care about the lack of politically correctness of the twins. I just found them overly irritating and found myself hoping they'd be destroyed.