Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Ain’t It Cool News’ “Massawyrm” shared his thoughts:

“… I’m a Bay fan. … But left unchecked he can apparently make a seriously mind numbing piece of shit.

As much as I loved [Transformers] … Bay magnifies EVERYTHING bad about the first… [W]orst of all, the frightening sidekicks of the film and the mistake this film will most likely be forever known for: Mudflap and Skids, the Stepin Fetchbots of the film. It’s as if Michael Bay looked at Jar Jar Binks and said ‘Oh, fuck no. Really? People find THAT offensive? fuck that, I’ll show them a fucking stereotype they’ll never effing forget!’ And he does.

They speak in clichéd urban slang, tossing around phrases like ‘I’m gonna pop a cap in your ass’ while fist bumping and mumbling unintelligently in a voice that sounds like a bad Chappelle Show sketch. Then you get a close up. And they each have bug eyes and a gold tooth.”

And now Harry Knowles himself weighs in:

“The film is padded by an hour of completely unnecessary, worthless, offensive and repugnant sequences that do nothing but tread water. Be it the family dogs fucking, twice. An extended sequence of Mom hopped up on pot brownies on a reefer madness binge. The well talked about racist foul-mouthed robots that are built in monkey proportions, have a big shiny gold tooth and do nothing to advance the story an inch. … But the racial stuff isn’t limited to just the animated variety. There’s a black man with bad teeth working in a Butcher Shop to earn new teeth that kinda blew my mind.

But this film has so much obviously wrong with it, that you have to wonder if anybody in the process ever told Michael Bay that he was fucking offensively retarded.

What the hell is this stuff doing in a TRANSFORMERS movie?

Anyone?

The filmmakers, studio and toymakers behind this film should be ashamed.”

Finally, one more from “Capone”:

“For all of the discussion and sensitivity displayed on this and other sites about the home-bots, Mudflap and Skids (both voiced by a white voice actor named Tom Kenny, best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants), nothing will quite prepare you for just how patently offensive these characters are.

The entire experience watching this film was like witnessing a filmmaker dare his audience to try to make sense of, or even like, his movie.”

It sounds pretty well unanimous that everyone absolutely despises Transformers 2, and for pretty much the exact same reasons.