In the first Transformers, Jazz was a jive-talking, breakdancing robot and the first Autobot to die. Luckily, the sequel promises even more urban flavor.

There are two robots in the film called Mudflap and Skids, and despite being red and green, respectively, they are voiced in a way that clearly designates them to be the “black” robots. Also, Skids has a gold front tooth (no, I’m serious) and both cannot read.

Oh sure, you put a grill on a white transformer and it’s fine, but you put one on a black robot, and then imply that he’s illiterate and make him breakdance and suddenly it’s racist.  Maybe you’re the racist, ever thought of that?

Shia LaBeouf’s college dorm room is outfitted with a gigantic poster of Bay’s own Bad Boys 2. Just in case you miss it the first time it comes up, it receives its own loving close-up when Shia begins writing an equation on it later in the film.

See?  Bad Boys 2.  Michael Bay movie.  Starring black people.  Clearly he’s proud of it.  Boom.

One hot chick is revealed to be a Transformer, and naturally, we discover this when a mechanical tail comes out the back of her thin blue panties. [Movieline]

Look, you sold, me, okay?  I’ll see the movie.  If my 13-year-old dick had an id, and was racist, it’d be named Michael Bay. In related news, Mudflap and Skids would be good nicknames for your sisters.

The bootleg Transformers 2 trailer (this is trailer number three, if you’re keeping score at home) just hit the web. I suggest watching it right now below as it’s likely to get taken down faster than your mom’s panties.  It’s got a lot of the stuff we’ve already seen, like emo-Bumblebee and Megan Fox in short shorts, plus – SYMBOLS AND LANDMARKS AND ANCIENT RUNES!  “They gotta mean something, they’re like a message, or like a map!”

Of course, X marks the giant robot fight.  It’s a story as old as time.  Michael Bay you brilliant bastard.
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Thanks to MichaelBay.com, you can now watch the Transformers 2 footage that Bay originally screened at ShoWest in Vegas online.  If you were hoping for more silliness in this one, you’re in luck.  Apparently Bumblebee has been living in Shia LaBeouf’s garage like a robot Alf since the last movie, and in this scene, Shia explains why he has to go off to college without him.  You know, the ol’ it’s-not-you, robot-it’s-me speech.  And then Bumblebee moans like R2D2 and cries actual liquid tears.  What? You didn’t know robots could do that? Man, I want what Michael Bay’s been smoking.  Transformers 2: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll watch giant robots punch each other, you’ll wish you were stoneder.

[more pictures at /Film]

According to his official message board, Michael Bay screened Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for Steven Spielberg the other day.  Guess how Spielberg described it.  And again, this is according to Michael Bay:

“Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony.  There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said ‘It’s awesome’ He felt this movie was better then the first – and probably my best, who knows – at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it.” [shootfortheedit via /Film]

I get the feeling a film critic could come up to Michael Bay and say, “It’s interesting how you rendered the machines anthropomorphically.  It’s a strange decision aesthetically, but there’s also a certain pathos to it, a sort of Freudian projection that I found compelling.”  And you could ask Bay, “So what’d she say?”  And Michael Bay would be like, “She said I’m awesome.”