Michael Bay may be mad that the press is lampooning his highly touted sequel, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, but the press is steaming mad that with Obama in office, racism emotes out of the IMAX screen in full force.

Why?

Maybe it’s because Bay and company are closet blackophobes. Upon seeing Transformers 2, Tyrese Gibson – a true herb – managed to have nine spoken lines in the full two-and-a-half hour runtime. The dynamic duo of Mudflap and Skids (pictured above) have eclipsed Jar Jar Binks as the most offensive stereotype by a CGI character.

Racist overtones aside, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen finds Shia Lebeouf trying to find a sense of normalcy in the midst of a mechanic civil war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. College bound Sam Whitwicky (Lebeouf) has put the past events of the first movie behind him and is looking to live a normal life.

His girlfriend played by the smoking hot, Megan Fox, is left behind, as well as his “guardian” – Bumblebee. But the past comes back to haunt the present and the Whitwicky family, the Autobots and Earth cannot escape their fate.

Fate is represented as “The Fallen,” this Transformer pre-dates the Autobots and Decepticons and looks to regain his place amongst the top of the top. Standing in his way is Optimus Prime and his band of metallic warriors. The film itself is visually appeasing with its IMAX screening being one of the most detailed spectacles to date. The plot – surrounding itself around events that took place before the first movie – is vague and takes a backseat to the fighting and car chases that Michael Bay is mostly known for.

The runtime for the movie puts the breaks on what should’ve been a faster paced movie. Lengthy lulls full of wordy exchanges between Prime and Sam don’t put too much of a dent in the action (which there is a lot of) leaving audiences with the typical “get-ready-for-Transformers 3″ ending.

Transformers 2 gets points for increasing the detail of the machines, but if I can be facetious here, the word is “transform,” right? So, why don’t they spend time doing such? I don’t know. Maybe the audience would be bored to have to see them in disguise during some scenes.

All in all, Michael Bay’s sequel is going to be a cash cow, even threatening the crown currently held by The Dark Knight, but will the racist overtones stop audiences from spending their money on something that’s insulting like this:

Star Trek [click here to read] may have some stiff competition this summer with Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen [click here to read] looking like this! Starring Shia Lebeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese [click here to read] and a whole lotta robots in disguise, Michael Bay has Spielberg’s stamp of approval.

Will he have yours?! Check out this new trailer below:

Back in August of ’08, it was reported that the mystery car that was spotted on the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen set was GM’s Corvette Centennial Design Concept. A month later, reports said that the car will be the Autobot Sideswipe, who was a Lamborghini in the original cartoons. Now, a user at TF08.net has posted a photo of Hasbro’s figure that gives you a good look at what the robot will look like in Michael Bay’s film, opening in conventional and IMAX theaters on June 26.

Yahoo! Movies has debuted the new poster for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, opening in conventional theaters and IMAX on June 26. The anticipated sequel stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay has posted an update on his official forum:

Hey everyone. Back from Egypt and Jordan – we had a wonderful shoot over there. I will miss the crew they were an amazing bunch of people and a lot of fun.

“I’m stuck in the edit room up to my eye balls – also finished producing Friday the 13th and The Unborn – coming out the after the new year. Our Trailer for Transformer you have been asking about – First there will be a teaser poster soon after the new year, and the teaser trailer will be out either in the theaters early Feb. or on the Superbowl. Cannot decide yet. I’m going to release some set stills on this site in a few weeks. I’ll keep you informed. Going back to do more selects now from my portable avid that I take home from work. It’s late, see you.”

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits conventional theaters and IMAX on June 26.

Eagle Eye is a box-office smash wrought from the cast-iron molds of every sci-fi suspense thriller to precede it. Remember The Matrix Revolutions highway chase scene? Check. Remember all of The Fugitive with Tommy Lee Jones’s good ol’ Southern marshall posturing? Billy Bob Thornton has it covered in Eagle Eye. Remember the strange omnipotent forces controlling future fates in Minority Report? Eagle Eye’s got that too. Throw in some mistaken identity and reluctant heroism from first Matrix flick to make it all even.

But where those movies intrigued us by throwing an unsuspecting erstwhile anti-hero into the mix, daring him to solve the world’s biggest travesty, Eagle Eye fails miserably at finding character strength. Shia Lebeouf has a difficult time making the transition from doe-eyed goof to action lead only because Matt Damon, Jason Statham and Will Smith are his main competition. As Jerry Shaw, the loser’s loser, Lebeouf earns audience sympathy with his quizzical looks and occasional outbursts against the cell phone voice giving him directives. The love interest plot unfolds clumsily with Michelle Monaghan doing her best scared woman running to match Lebeouf’s scared man running.

Eagle Eye does hit some marks with its somewhat preachy theme of government ineptitude and deception dominating the second half of the film. Rather than hammering the point home, Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson) and Major William Bowman (Anthony Mackie) play sacrificial lambs in the conspiracy chase game. Their loyalty to government employers spells out the naivete of their disposition, while showing the importance of order in a complicated haze of mendacity. Eagle Eye is sure to draw more fans to theaters to see the string of explosions but once the smoke clears…see your local bootlegger for an advance copy.