Remember “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?”  Or perhaps you’re like me, and wanted to not only forget it, but gouge your eyes out for having seen it in the first place.  I just don’t understand how you can go wrong with a property like Transformers.

Giant robots?  Check.

Huge explosions?  Check.

Minimal plot to get in the way of the aforementioned giant robots and huge explosions?  Check.

Racially offensive robots?  Huh?

If you haven’t seen the film you probably have no idea what I am taking about, but twin robots Mudflap and Skidz (even their names sound offensive!) seemingly embodied every cliche about African-Americans males as jive-talking, shuffling, gold-tooth wearing, rap-music listening, people.  I mean, it was as if there was a running bet to see how offensive they could possibly make two characters before someone complained.

As if they weren’t irritating enough the first time around, there’s speculation that they would appear in the sequel to the second film, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”.

This irritated Michael Bay enough that, according to Collider.com, he offered $25,000 to–seemingly–anyone who could find Mudflap and Skidz in the upcoming sequel.

Now I don’t know about you, but it sounds to me like a way of drumming up publicity for his film because that’s probably small change to Mr. Bay.

In other words, it’s quite possibly a win-win in that the publicity surrounding the twins could potentially bring skeptics into the theater just to see if they can be the first to spot the two offensive robots; people that probably wouldn’t have seen the film based upon their experience with the first two.