What was the story...?

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2009)

I usually enjoy action movies with a good plot and in fact I found the first Transformers fun, fresh and entertaining. This second chapter however has nothing to do with the first, starting from the new "look" of Megan Fox, who was so pretty in the first movie, to the silly "girly" voice they used in Italy to dub her, continuing with the exaggerated use of special effects to the total detriment of the plot (if there was one in the first place), to the two silly Autobots. Geographically speaking, it seemed like Petra, in Jordan, was near Giza and Luxor (Tebes) in Egypt, while the three locations are hundreds of kilometers away from each other. Also, Giza is right next to the city of Cairo, but in the movie it looked like it was in the middle of the desert... And what about the Egyptian authorities? The final battle was taking place around the pyramids... but there were only a few Jordan helicopters! Just a lot of nonsense... Kind of reminded me of Matrix 2. In my opinion, just an excuse to make money, certainly not good cinema. By the way, where was Spielberg?