20 Movie Scenes That Should've Been Cut

Michael Bay's Transformers movies are absolutely packed to the gills with excessive human drama and woeful "comic relief" likely to elicit eye-rolls from most viewers over the age of 15.

But Bay reached a new low in the series' fourth film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, with an extremely ill-advised joke about the funniest of all things - statutory rape.

During some downtime, protagonist Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) meets his 17-year-old daughter Tessa's (Nicola Peltz) 20-year-old boyfriend Shane (Jack Raynor), and naturally has some concerns about illegal sexual contact between the two.

However, Shane retorts that because he and Tessa previously dated in high school when they were both underage, they have a "pre-existing juvenile foundational relationship," ensuring any contact between them would be legal under Texas' "Romeo and Juliet" law.

To hammer the point home, Shane also pulls out a piece of paper with the statute written on it, and let's be real - if this comes up enough in your life that you need to have the law tucked in your wallet, people are probably right to give you the side-eye.

But the salient point is that this gag has no business in a film fundamentally about CGI robots beating each other up. It's already wildly bloated at 165 minutes in length, and this mind-numbingly stupid scene only made it even longer.