I don't know why, but I think this is too funny

[CatWoman]

Transformers' Jive-Talking Robots Raise Race Issues

LOS ANGELES — "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes _ but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.

Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.

As good guys, they fight alongside the Autobots and are intended to provide comic relief. But the traits they're ascribed raise the specter of stereotypes most notably seen when Jar Jar Binks, the clumsy, broken-English speaking alien from "Star Wars: Episode I _ The Phantom Menace" was criticized as a racial caricature.

Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern described Binks in 1999 as a "Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit," a reference to a black character from the 1920s and '30s that exploited negative stereotypes for comic effect. Extending that metaphor to the "Transformers" sequel was AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire, who calls Skids and Mudflap "Jar Jar Binks in car form."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/transformers-jivetalking-_n_220005.html

[YOY]

1. I wouldn't worry. The movie hasn't gotten too many good reviews.

It's going down as the summer's official flopola...and here I thought Terminator Salvation would get that honor. (I thought Terminator was mediocre...but not awful.)

[YOY]

2. dupe

dupe