arrogant, tasteless stinker

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2009)

I haven't been tempted to write a review like this since the last Star Wars turkey (which at least I managed to nod off in)This is an excessively long, witless exercise in bombastic overkill. Strangely enough , as many others have commented it manages to be really boring. I took the kids and enjoyed the last one. It was a kind of souped up Kaiju. This one is like the crappy middle period Godzillas. All the Robots are confined to a kind of Monster Island and come out on missions to defeat the bad gut robots. This is doubly tacky because the island is Diego Garcia, stolen from it's people by The Brits with the US. They ar still fighting to get their Island back. IN fact the film is one long hymn to the US military and appears to be some sort of retrospective justification for US intervention in the Middle East. As usual the humour is lame and embarrassing. Shia acts with conviction but must be hoping this is the last. Avoid this at all costs