1. Casual Racism & Sexism
Paramount PicturesIf there's one final defining characteristic of Michael Bay's movies, it's that they have absolutely no desire to be politically correct, and were the movies even remotely self-aware of this fact, it might seen endearing rather than ignorant and irritating. Still, there's as much casual sexism and racism here as in the other movies. For starters, the lingering glances on Nicola Peltz's rear-end are laughably lechy, and considering that the movie plays up her youth and the questionable nature of her relationship with Reynor's character, it creates an awkward clash of sorts: are we supposed to find this hot or not? More grating is the movie's casual racism, though, even if never gets anywhere near as bad as the down-right embarrassing black-stereotyped Transformers Mudflap and Skids from Revenge of the Fallen. The movie's primary Chinese character, played by Li Bingbing, of course has to know kung fu, because everyone Chinese person knows martial arts, right? And then there's Ken Watanabe's wince-inducing Transformer character, Drift, who because he's Japanese, of course has to be dressed like a Samurai. We'd have thought Bay and Kruger might've learned something about being a little more sensitive after the not-inconsiderable backlash of the second movie, but apparently not... Did we miss any of the suckiest moments in Transformers: Age of Extinction? Or do you care to defend the film? Let us know in the comments!