mm.. so so

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2009)

I expected Transformers 1 to suck. I went to see the film out of nostalgia for my childhood(my parents would not take me to the 86 movie because they refused to pay for an hour and a half commercial lol). I went and really, really got surprised. I loved it. Therefore, I had the same expectation of ROTF. I read all the negativity before I went to see it, and discarded it as die hards being too critical. This movie was a big letdown. The plot had potential, but the humor was far too detracting to get anything really serious going. I don't mind shutting my brain off for two and a half hours to watch giant robots beat the heck out of each other, but the dumbed down humor in this film didn't even let me enjoy that. I would have to say that if I went in with my expectations for the first film I would have been mildly entertained, but I was let down. I was counting on this film to be my favorite of the season, and it just really felt like a mild headache. I predicted that they would kill off Prime again, but the film just dragged on without him. Of course they resurrected him in the same film which was like a slap in the face. All said and done I gave it seven stars, if it wasn't Transformers it would have been 5.