Saw Transformers Revenge of the Fallen last night. It wasn’t that horrible of a summer-stupid movie. Well, the 1.5 hour editing down of the 2.5 hour monstrosity on screen wouldn’t have been that bad of a movie. Excepting therefrom the gratuitous everything, the only thing that really bothered me was the two blackface characters, Skids and Mudflap (everything else was chalked up to a Michael Bay movie adapted from a toy line and was therefore somewhat excusable, I knew what I was going to get when I walked into the theater).
Pictured: Skids, Mudflap, and Blackface
From The ISS Takes on: Transformers 2 by Doktor Maxwell von Puppykicker the Third:
It’s a robot in blackface. What the hell people?
Director Michael Bay and his proponents (typing that hurt me more than you will ever know) have defended the Little Black Sambots by claiming that they were meant to be comic relief characters and that any racial connotations were entirely unintentional. So apparently, it’s just a coincidence that these robots possess apelike features, have flared nostrils and comically enlarged ears and lips, are shown to be unintelligent, speak in an "urban" dialect, carry decorative "bling", and mention not reading very frequently! And that one of them has a gold tooth!
