Transformers 2: Revenge of the Racists

I am a huge Transformers fan and I liked the movie for what it was. . . mostly. In order to enjoy the movie, you kind of have to put all higher brain functions to the side. Once you do that you will enjoy this movie. The problem is I could not get past how racist two of the characters were.

In the movie there are twin robots named Skids and Mudflap. In a nutshell, they are minstrels. I never thought I would see a robot minstrel. They might as well have been wearing black face, as opposed to the actual bug eyes and gold teeth that the characters actually had. I will let that sink in. Skids had bug eyes and a gold tooth. Not to mention the fact that the twins mentioned that they were illeterate when asked to read. The twins spoke in ebonics and acted like idiots. Each scene with them in it became more and more uncomfortable for me. I am all for comic relief, but this was ridiculous. Everytime they were on screen, I was taken out of the movie experience and wondered WTF ws Michael Bay thinking. Again. . . the robots had bug eyes, gold teeth, spoke in ebonics, and were illeterate.

I kept asking myself, how the hell does Paramount allow something like this in such a high profile movie as Transformsers 2? No one at Paramount thought that shit was racist? Seriously Paramount. I could understand it if there was some reason for the characters acting that way, but I just don't see it. It is obvious that no black people were producers on the film or even work for Paramount. If they did one would have surely said something like "Hey guys, this movie is cool and all but WTF is up with those minstrel robots. That shit is not cool." It pisses me off that a franchise that I like so much, would allow this to happen.

The most dissapointing thing for me is that no one caught this before the movie came out. Not the Director, not the studio, and not the toy manufacturer. Just wait till Christmas when your 7 year old wants a racist ass tranformer with gold teeth. Don't let me see your kid with one, I might have to have a "talk" with you.