Transformers From 'Da Hood' Spark Racism Charges

Critics are comparing Transformers to Star Wars, and not in a good way, E! reports. Twin autobots Skids and Mudflap are causing an uproar over ethnic stereotypes. The new characters are from “da hood,” can’t read, and inspired one critic to describe them as—horrors!—“Jar Jar Binks in car form.” And like Jar Jar, they're annoying. In the words of another critic, they are “a collection of every bad stereotype imaginable.” (More Transformers stories.)