Needless use of sexual humor

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2009)

Very rarely do I write a comment on these boards. However, I do use this site when choosing to see a movie. Therefore, from reading the many comments on this movie, I knew there was some off-color humor in the movie. While I'm an adult and can easily get past such humor and still appreciate a decent action movie, what really bothers me about this both Transformers movies is the audience that will inevitably be drawn to see these films. Transformers is a movie produced by Hasbro.
Hasbro is a toy company known mostly for making action figures. This means young boys will flock to see their favorite action figures fighting it out on the big screen. I grew up in the Transformer craze. I remember the cartoon series and the movies released in the 80s. Those did not need over-the-top sexually perverted humor. These newer movies would stand just fine without jokes and gags that involve a mother announcing her son has popped his cherry, a girl inadvertently being thrown face-down onto another man's crotch, a leg-humping ankle-biter robot, a dorm-room seduction, and on and on.
Friends of mine have a seven-year old son that just adores the Transformer movies. Should these movies put his parents in position to have to explain some of the things shown in these movies? Would you want your son repeating any of these things to their 2nd-grade teachers? Having such scenes in this movie detract from it...and for what reason? To get a cheap laugh to break up an intense action scene. Come on Hollywood, take a moment to consider your audience for such movies.