After two weeks of begging from my kids and me having to remind them that the movie has not been released yet, I took them to see Transformers 2. I did not like the first one and after reading this from Siddity I was not looking forward to seeing the second one. Here is my report card for the movie:
Diversity: F---- due to racial and ethnic stereotypes. It wasn’t just African Americans being blatantly stereotyped. They had the ghoulish, Igorish advisor to the Decepticons, the rough and tough stereotype of an aged Irish or Scottish guy (Sean Connery), and there were many more stupid, unoriginal characters I’m not going to list.
Womanisting: F—because Megan Fox talked like a baby and pouted the entire time with her newly fake, disgusting lips. And for having all the other females in the movie as sexual objects or crazy, whacked out moms (she was funny by the way). There was a female autobot, but she died 1 second after we found out she was female (or as female as a robot can get).
Total awesomeness from the gaze of a white male: A-- it was off the scale awesome if you don’t look beneath the surface! The fight scenes were cool and the sound effects were better than the first. Shia LeBeouf was really, really cute. Tyrese was cute but he was only in the movie a few times and they gave him the most ridiculous one liners.
I also thought the transformers had way too many human characteristics (clichéd characteristics) no originality or deep thought put into this at all… but hey I guess you don’t need that when you have all the money in the world to blow things up. I feel bad because I would still see the movie again. ::hangs head in shame::
2 comments:
I'm sure I'm thinking much too deeply into this, but the lack of originality with the robots could be intentional. Remember, they learned English and learned about our culture through the tv transmissions they picked up in space, which is why Jazz greeted Sam and whatever Megan Fox's character name was with "What's crackin', li'l b------?" in the first movie. There's not much in the way of originality or deep human emotion on tv these days, which is also why you get the stupid stereotypes of the twins.
Can I just say that I love the transformers. Not the movie, but the transformers themselves. My car is a transformer.
In the first movie, I thought the transformers had lots of personality. I don't plan on seeing the 2nd movie. I stay away from sequels.
Anyway, transformers are hot.
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