Its the little things that count

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2009)

Its amazing how big budget movies can often fail on the little things that make a good film and great movie.
That is where this movie suffers-on the little things.
On the positive, the special effects, robot battles and new Autobots and Decepticons were great. The introduction of The Fallen, Constructicons(who form Devastator)and Jetfire being my personal favourites(bearing in mind Jetfire was one of my favourites from the 80's cartoon).
On the negative some of the acting(by the humans that is) was terrible. Screen time given to eye candy that has no acting talent(Isabel Lucas for example)instead of being focused on what fans want to see-robots fighting. The human story lines in between had a very familiar feel about them, seen many times before from various movies over the last 10-20 years. The introduction of the Fallen was ruined by the sudden departure(when you see the movie you will know what i mean). The "wrecking ball" testicles on Devastator stupid and not needed. The battle scenes arrive and depart too quickly. And i could go on, and on.
To summarise this movie suffers because it tries too hard to do too much. Its 5 movie types in one. This will probably divide the main stream cinema audience from the die hard fan of the Transformers franchise. While most will walk away satisfied with what they have been presented, a good percentage will walk away feeling like they have been cheated by something that promised so much but delivered so little. While both sides will have varying views on the movies they will inevitably come to the same conclusion-the sequel was not as good as the first film.
And all because of the little things. So so so so many little things.