Just got back from it, late late showing. I'ma Tranformers fan. I'm NOT a movie goer in the least, but young people crowds dont bother me, I dont have to have that perfect seat, I dont look at how clean or dirty the theater is. I just plop down a seat and watch, just glad to get out the house. I did not watch ONE preview to this movie, so had absolutley no expectation. My review: Spoiler Love Transformers. Liked the 1st movie. Lukewarm on this 2nd one...I mentioned before how the campiness of the actual cartoon fit into Michael Bay's strengths. All the Autobots in the cartoon might crack a one liner joke during battle, name call them "Decepti-creeps" or whatever. But after 10+ years I finally saw the criticisms with Michael Bay...Some GENERIC, wooden dialogue, plot and character development. Cliche as can BE, my gosh. You got humans cracking common demonitator toilet humor one instance, the next they're talking about destiny, all deep about making a positive contribution to the world. So contrived. I'm fine with jokes in action flicks, as long as they're funny and effective. The jokes in this were sooooo 7th grade though. The "ethnic" characters, when unfunny people try to force in the wise cracking scene stealing ethnic character results can be mixed. Or it makes it way look like they're playing to stereotypes... I was okay with the length of the movie. The robot scenes and dialogue were okay, better than the first movie I thought. Decent robot plot. I thought the animations were crisp and they looked very lifelike. More robots was good. Devastator was cool I thought. It still comes down to the same thing as before - INDISTINGUISHABLE ROBOTS when they're fighting each other, cuz the robot designs SUCK. They even slow down all the fight scenes and you still cant tell. Bumblebee is the only robot you can recognize. Also some robot appearances and fight scenes are too short and anti-climactic. I cant even remember some of the supporting robots. It was almost like a big band of regular alien robots came down into earth ruining stuff, but oh forgot lets give this one robot who's doing a little more than the other robot drones a name so its a "Transformer". Bumblebee's the best robot cuz he has a clean recognizable look, and they involve him long enough in scenes to develop him into a character. Optimus Prime seems like some lonely distant old soul who's wife left him 5 years ago with the kids and still hasnt gotten over it, but the other Autobots know to leave him alone. They actually did 1/3 or halfway in the movie work into a meaty enough plot to make it a believable movie. Jetfire added some depth and purpose. But I couldnt get over how bad the dialogue and characterizations are. The Sam and Mikala chemistry isnt all the way fitting for me. Shia matches the Sam part. For some reason Megan Fox looks so hot in Transformers movies, as hot as any girl can look in a movie. But doesnt look like a believable enough grease monkey girl like she's supposed to be. It did address the More Megan issue nicely though. All in all a 6 of 10 for me.
Weds midnite to Friday: Domestic: $89,245,788 52.7% + Foreign: $80,184,013 47.3% -------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Worldwide: $169,429,801
caught the matinee, 10/10 nice action good enough story hot fox i wish there were more of the chick bot though, hot hot hot
Saw the movie yesterday, it was okay, fun flick, nothing more. I thought Shia Lebouf and Megan Fox sucked as actors...but I guess in a movie like this it wasn't required of them to be good...
Saw it yesterday. Have to admit, the movie and final battle went on quite a bit too long, then ended rather f'n abruptly without tying up anyone's storyline. Had a too much juvenile toilet humor. The two ethnic stereotype transformers were actually Jar Jar level disturbing (and where the hell did they disappear to towards the end?). And it was almost impossible to pick out any transformers besides Prime and Bumblebee in the fight scenes. In the end however, I knew this was a movie about robots that transform into cars, I knew it was directed by Michael Bay, and I paid money anyway. Thus, I can't complain. B-
Saw this yesterday and, surprisingly, enjoyed it quite a bit. While still flawed, I thought the action was better than the first movie. They still need to do a better job of panning back enough that viewers can discern one robot from another while they're trying to kill each other. I can forgive that though, as there's really no way to get past each robot having so much shiny metal on their body...it's really inevitable that they'll blend in with each other when moving so quickly. Where I really had an issue was with the gratuitous language and the annoying adolescent jokes. Now I'm not normally the kind of person to complain about cussing (in fact, I think it's awesome when used properly), but for this movie it was so over the top and out of place that it became distracting. As for the jokes...I don't even know where to start. If you've seen the movie, you know what I mean. That said, I was definitely entertained. I'd give it a 75% or so. I just have one question... Spoiler After Optimus takes Jetfire's parts, what does he transform into? An 18 wheeler with half an SR-71 sticking out of it? EDIT: By the way, I saw this at Tinsletown on 290 (which I've never been to before) and was amazed that it was just $4.00 for the matinee. I didn't even know that was possible to see a movie for that little these days. It's not like the theater was a dump either.
Just got back from it. I thought the Transformers plot was pretty good, but the human plot is just terrible. They could've cut down an hour of crap scenes and focused more on the Transformers, but I guess it would only please the true fans while ditching the sheeple. I didn't find it too difficult to tell who was who in the fight scenes. It was easy to tell the difference between Fallen, Starscream, and Megatron. Starscream had a more triangular body. The only difficult part was when Grindor came into the menage a trois for the forest fight.
This is going to be a rental for me, hopefully a free rental at my nearest redbox, which I think all Michael Bay movies should be, with a free code like "MikeBaySuX0rs". Saw Megan Fox on Jimmy Kimmel, love how she preens to the camera with the come hither looks, total slutworthy. <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tyhYVcWbkcw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tyhYVcWbkcw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>
The movie was quite the BAY-PLOSION!!! However is was not all that great and I wanted to like it. The Sam-bots didn't help . .. Mike Bay had to have his own version of JAR JAR BINKS I spent most of the movie trying to figure out which is more overrate Megan Fox's looks or Shia LeBeuf's acting 5/10 - alot more cursing than I anticipated, too. Rocket River
link Are Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf transforming from friends to lovers?By Daily Last updated at 4:21 PM on 22nd June 2009 Co-stars Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf have frequently spoken of their sexual chemistry, but continue to insist they're just friends. But as the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen publicity tour draws to a close, it appears the co-stars just can't keep away from each other. The stunning actress, 23, was spotted enjoying an early morning coffee with Shia in Los Angeles before driving him to a physical therapy session on his injured hand on Sunday morning. Megan's car was spotted parked outside Shia's house at 7am and the pair left at 8am before stopping off at a doughnut shop in the LA suburb of Burbank. It is unclear whether Megan had spent the night at Shia's house or if she had just arrived as his place for a friendly wake-up call.
It was okay Tons of explosions and cool effects Don't dig the designs and what happened with Devastator at all Of course the whole DESTINY thing was annoying too
