Cool movie - but slightly overdone

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2009)

So I watched the last show (11.30pm) on the first day in IMAX... the show was apparently sold out, but the usher allowed me anyways on a regular ticket - and I found a great seat at the back! So far so good... Lets get the good things out there... Great scenes - right from the urban fight scenes to the scenes over the pyramids! Great animation and transformation sequences. Shia LaBeouf looks very convincing as a college freshman, Bumble bee was at his best with his radio vocabulary. Bad things - so what was great as one or two scenes (street fights, transformations, freaky creatures), there were 50 of them in the movie... Megan Fox - supposedly the sexiest female on earth - shows up in every other shot with her glossed lips, brushed cheeks, mascara-ed eyelids and the permanent pout... great eye candy, but kinda gets in the way of most of the action. Michael Bay used her the best in the first movie, where she actually had a lot of action, but in this one, all she does is to run behind Shia, scream, "bounce", and tame a midget Decepticon! All in all, I want to love the movie - because I am such an unabashed fan... but the movie is overdone - with special effects - both transformers and sexy babes...