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Jive-talking twin Transformers raise race issues
LOS ANGELES -- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizesand even sexes -- but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that criticsare singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.
Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys,constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They'reforced to acknowledge that...
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