Guilty Pleasure

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2010)

After seeing this at the cinema I gave Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen another watch yesterday, I know a lot of people who have seen it would wonder why I was wasting my time but I have to admit its a guilty pleasure of mine.
We pick up with the story two years after the events of the first. The Autobots have united with the US Military hunting down Decepticons, when they learn of an ancient Decepticon that is coming to destroy the human race.
Its not that I think the story should be completely void of a human story line, but I just don't care whether or not Sam, the main character, can keep his girlfriend while he goes to college especially when there's fighting robots in the same movie. The film comes in at a hefty 150 minutes run time, which I think even tests a die hard fans concentration levels, it definitely needs some trimming down in certain places.
There was far too many rubbish jokes in there as well, although a couple of them made me laugh, the mother getting off her face with hash cakes and running loose on a college campus and John Turturro making a robot-scrotum reference were highlights for me, also the promise of Matthew Marsden coming on screen with his cringe-worthy acting is always entertaining but for the wrong reasons.
You have to take it at face value though, its entertaining however you look at it.
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