Transformers: Rise of the Machines?

Rating: 4/10 (26 June 2009)

This was one of the summer movies I was looking forward to this year as I really enjoyed the first movie. Yes I am one of those people who grow up the 80's playing with transformers toys and watching the cartoons. Anyway so I sat down in the movie theater with my wife and film starts.........
The opening scene some joint special forces mission with the Autobots seeking out the stray Decepticons that remains on earth. This uneventful opening scene failed to get my blood pumping as I thought visually there was nothing new here. As I soon I saw the ice cream van Autobot I knew that it was going to be a very annoying character with a silly voice which has been put in the film to please the young audience. Guess what I was right, the ice cream van actually turned into two silly robots, they both talked in really awful street talk. Remember how bad Jar Jar Binks is Star Wars Episode 1 well this is the same but times two. I looked at my wife she was enjoying movie so I remained in my seat.
So I fast forward a little bit here and Sam goes to college. A very attractive young lady is taking a very keen interest in him and this is the point where I almost through my tub of Ben and Jerry's and the screen in disgust because........wait for it..........wait for it...........The attractive collage girl turns out to be a Decepticons a transformer that transformers into an attractive collage girl.....what the f***! Why didn't Hasbro think of this? Why because its a s*** concept that's why. Although I do remember seeing a film where a robot was disguised as an attractive woman. I believe it was called TERMINATOR - RISE OF THE MACHINES. This scene has to be up there with the invisible car that was in JAMES BOND - DIE ANOTHER DAY. Was there anything else that was unoriginal in the film well yes just about very other scene with was taking from the best bits from all other Michael bay films you see familiar scenes from Bad Boys, Pearl harbor and Armageddon . The Fallen a new Decepticon looks identical to a Bionicale (remember them the weird robot franchise from Lego).
What's good about this film............three things really:
1. Bumblebee has a lot of screen time and kicks a lot of ass in this movie so much so that who cares about bringing Optimas Prime back to life.
2. The final battle scene between the army & Autobots vs. Decepticons is quite thrilling (although you'll have to wait about 2 hours to see this.)
3. Megan Fox
To wrap this up Transformers: Rise of the Fallen is an unbalanced mess. It's a fusion of unoriginal ideas banded together with a simplistically long script. I was really looking to the movie but it ended up as a big disappointment. Remember Jurassic Park, yes? Remember the Jurassic park sequels, no? I can see this franchise going in the same direction. But hey the studios don't care what mess they have released as they are already seeing $$$$$$$$$$.