Unoriginal, special effects orgy, farewell to logic

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2011)

Most of this film feels like a re-hash of the previous installment, only with better graphics and a bigger quantity of everything – except for logic. Bigger quantity of action and special effects does not necessarily make for a better movie. At some point it becomes tedious and you just want it to end but it drags on, and on, and on. The attempts at comedy were annoying and so were the two leads. I honestly expected something from Shia LaBeouf after the first movie, but the sequels left me sadly disappointed. The two saving graces for me in this film were John Turturro and Frances McDormand. Back to the issue of logic: *** SPOILERS AHEAD *** Problem #1: Sentinel repetitively states that they were gods on Cybertron – however if the entire planet is inhabited by autobots, who were they gods to? The entire idea of autobots is ridiculous to begin with, for such creations have no purpose except to make interesting toys. Problem #2: as demonstrated by the scene of decepticons invading from the Moon – the pillars create a portal – one that is entered on one end (Moon) and exited on the other (Earth). When they want to teleport Cybertron to Earth, they surround Earth with pillars, but the Cybertron appears OUTSIDE of the pillars, and there is obviously no entrance portal because Cybertron is abandoned. Problem #3: when the teleportation is interrupted a black-hole like funnel sucks Cybertron in – it is the size of the Earth and very close, but nothing happens to earth's atmosphere?