The Transformers have a complex and inconsistent history,, but they remain both alien and robot throughout.

Harmless comic characters or racist robots?“It’s an alien who uploaded information from the Internet and put together the conglomeration and formed this cadence, way of speaking and body ...

But if they're alien robots, she continued, "why do they talk like bad black stereotypes?" Bay brushes off any whiff of controversy. "Listen, you're going to have your naysayers on anything," he said.

The official version of the Transformers 2 trailer is finally out, and it’s jam-packed with crazy action snippets, plus dialogue like "Megatron wants what’s in my mind," that cries out for a ...

The less talking robots, the better. Charlie spruces Bee up thinking he’s her sweet new ride, and instead out pops an enormous, stumbling, metal alien.

But if they're alien robots, she continued, "why do they talk like bad black stereotypes?" Bay brushes off any whiff of controversy. "Listen, you're going to have your naysayers on anything," he said.

Yo, according to an official—and unsurprisingly curt—missive from Michael Bay himself, the jive-talking, vaguely racist robots that spoiled the otherwise perfectly enjoyable explosions of ...