Transformers: Age Of Extinction - 10 Ways Michael Bay Stole Your Money

By Ian Watson /

6. An Upgrade But Not An Improvement

Optimus Prime is the Rocky Balboa of Transformers, always fighting an upgrade of his previous opponent, and winning every time (too bad his smackdowns aren€™t set to Eye Of The Tiger). He fares better than Bumblebee, though, who seems to be the Autobot equivalent of Gary Oldman€™s character from True Romance - a white pimp who thinks he€™s black. Now that Skids and Mudflap have gone to Autobot Heaven, and because Bay doesn€™t have room for a Funny Black Guy in the Anthony Anderson mould, it falls to Bumblebee to be the franchise€™s fount of €˜urban€™ humour, calling his nemeses €œhomeboy€ and saying €œu can€™t touch this€ as though MC Hammer was still in vogue. He doesn€™t stoop to saying €œboogy boogy boo€, though - Bay€™s saving that for the next one.