Juvenile

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2009)

Do you know what I saw? A movie that was trying to be adult (hence the swearing as well as the drug related and sexual scenes) but ended up being even more childish then the cartoon series.
Obviously, it was a teenage boy's movie. Action, explosions, ball jokes and Megan Fox were all delivered along side a paper thin plot which moaned with an awful number of references to "destiny" and "fate" to try keep the whole thing noble and 'King Arthur'-like. It failed no doubt. The villain was a disgustingly overseen stereotype (which character wasn't?); he was evil for the sake of being evil, and able to be destroyed with a slight push. Everyone saw the ending coming, which to be fair, was expected even before entering the cinema. Huge holes became apparent in the plot 'How the hell did the parents get to Egypt?'. I don't care if there is some long-winded, off-screen explanation, it didn't fit at all.
All the comic-relief robots (including the small robot with the New Jersey accent and the two wannabe-ghetto twin robots) were highly irritating and only added more to the juvenile delivery of the movie. 'Oh, how hilarious! A fire-farting robot is humping Megan Fox's leg!! And Megan Fox doesn't even look surprised at all by it..' Even the parents reached a new level of trying to be outrageous in order to be even more hilarious then they were in the first movie. Mother on drugs did you say? How awfully outrageous! Apart from: no plot, the rapid overuse of boring stereotypes, pointless and repetitive action scenes, the over-selling of sex via Fox and the robot-lady. It was okay. It did keep my attention through the duration of the movie (even if it was the gawk in astonishment at the resistance of Megan Fox's indestructible make up which did not smudge or wear off at all during the entire course of the film) which is the primary goal of a movie. Well done....