So true. So sadly true.

You know, I've been thinking about this, and I'm reminded of one of the more profound quotations from the best children's show¹ ever, Invader ZIM. See, Invader TAK is building a giant magma fountain to hollow out the earth, and marketing it as a hot-dog stand. Dib says:

"You can't do that! Someone will notice!"
Tak: "The great thing about your people Dib is that, most of them don't notice."

TF2 was a hot heaping pile of feces. And nobody noticed. These toys are going to sell lots and lots of units, even though they're stupid.

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¹My criteria for "best" children's show is the degree to which it never should have been shown to children.

its not racist
goto any highschool in the country and there will be WAY TO MANY white kids talking like that...

@anon:

That's a lot of people's defense, but besides the ghetto slang and illiteracy, the character designs (especially when compared to now "banned" cartoons portraying blacks in animation history) are (in my opinion) undeniably racially insensitive. I don't think Michael Bay set out to be a racist. He's just an idiot who thinks he's funny. I'm appalled that besides all the other people that had to be okay with this, the designers and animators didn't see anything wrong with the characters they made. They should all be familiar with their animation history and should know better.

...and a whole bunch of black people talk like that; these guys were just characters. Of course you won't call Jules Winfield, DoughBoy, and Hooper X blatant stereotypes, why single these guys out just because they're intergalactic robots who only picked up signals from The Beat and appear in a live action cartoon that calls for a variety of stock character persona (you mean stereotypes?) Dang.

Now, that clip: it's not called applauding when they put their hands together for jokes like, "there are no tighter shirts!" Media people are dumb.

To quote Megan Fox's comments in her interview on CBS:

"It gives me a migraine and I still don't understand what it is!"

Arcee was such a hotee Autobot and they trashed her. Not to detract from Megan -she's a hott too. But Arcee was like a young Princess Leia only all metal and able to transform.

Actually, a deleted scene from ROTF was when Skids smeared black oil all over his face and ate a bucket of fried chicken while sayin "Mammy". Then a Decepticon called Klanator came along and hung him from a tree.

They're robots so it's hysterical.

The fact is that Michael Bay is not responsible for the twin's characterisation. The scriptwriters point out the characterisation was not in the script, and Bay himself states that the twin's personalities were made in the studio by the voice actors Tom Kenny and Reno Wilson. Add that to the fact that Wilson is black himself and finds no problem with it...

Im still tyring to work out how they got away with the Rasict Twins

Yup, it was all those darn voice actors' fault. Those guys wield immense power in Hollywood. As we all know, a $250 million+ budgeted movie has absolutely no control over the wacky voice actors' antics.

If the twins were racist, then they would have said the
n-word constantly. They were stereotypes, and had they actually been consistently funny instead of mostly annoying, nobody would give a Bumblebee piss about them.

Did any of you douchnozzles watch the movie? If so,you would know the twins can read and write (they made a banner for their vehicle mode),a major plot point of the film is that Skids,Mudflap,Wheelie,nor ANYONE else can read ancient heiroglyphics,that's why they need to ressurect one of their ancestors.
Considering how dumb this movie supposedly is,a lot of it flew over people's heads.

lou-bert:

Stereotyping is a racist action.

@ innercitybot

I'm not saying bay is not to blame at all. I'm just saying that Kenny and Wilson came up with the characterisation, Bay merely approved it. He didn't come up with it then force it onto the actors. Bay is not the sole creative force behind the movie, though you couldn't tell it from people's complaints.

Odd, I turn on BET and see basically the same thing. Does that mean they are racist too?

Just think--this whole "OMG RACIST!" shitstorm could have been alleviated (just a bit) if one of the twins had said,

"Nah man, ain't no Autobot can read that. That's ancient Decepticon writing. If it was plain 'ol Cybertronian, they'd be no problem, but that stuff? Shit..."

Sorry, a clarification, I meant stereotyping of a race other than your own is racist. Stereotyping your own race is just feeding the trolls.

Wow, I actually have a new found respect for Megan Fox after seeing that interview...Not only does she casually di$$ this movie, she actually seems scarily normal with almost no regard for the on-air fapping for her by the host and the beef...Now if we can get her to stay off the botox she might have a chance at believability...

When Megan Fox appeared on screen during the first Transformers, I thought "that is the sexiest girl I've seen in a long time." When Megan Fox appeared on screen during Transformers 2, I thought "that girl looks like a hooker."
What happened? Did she change, or did I?

About a month or two ago, Entertainment Weekly had a great interview with Megan Fox where she basically admitted that TF2 was a piece of you-know-what. Okay, she didn't come out and say it, but she said the movie wasn't an "actor's movie" and she basically just ran around the whole time. In other words, there wasn't much for her to do besides look pretty.

In regards to the "racist" Transformers, I'll bring up the point again: these are supposed to be highly-advanced robots that can take the form of our vehicles to blend in, yet their robot mode looks like a hick with a gold tooth? Why doesn't every robot have a cool-looking face like Optimus Prime or Megatron? Why would any robot choose to have a single tooth? Or a single gold tooth?