Some films should have a less than 16 warning

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2009)

I'm from the generation of the fortunate who watched the Transformers cartoons when in kids (mid 80's). The joy and wonder transmitted by these cartoons was unparalleled.
When I knew Steven Spielberg was producing a Transformers movie I was excited. The Transfomers I movie was a success. It was fun, refreshing, the story was good. Good job! And thank you Steven for another jewel.
I saw the Transformers 2 movie this weekend. I got bored at half of it (~2:30h long). Let me say in its defense that the special effects are impressive and of an incredible magnitude that makes your skin hair raise. In one word: electrifying.
At some point the movie looses its interest. The dialogs become cheesy, the battles take too long or are too confusing. There are serious editing problems and way too many things happening. The story although interesting is not told in the right timing nor in the right way. The jokes are poor and are targeted mostly for young people (<16) Bottom line and Warning: Since the target audience for this movie seems to be the hip-hop generation, people of ages late 20's or 30's will have serious issues with this movie. If you can overcome that, you like special effects and you're big fan of the transformers I guess its still worth while spending 10 bucks to take your friend to the movie for a ride, although you'll be a bit tired in the end.