No Plot, Nice romp

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2009)

I had high hopes for this, add it failed, but it was still good.
Bad points: shaky camera, not enough atmosphere, humans manage to run and hide from 10 massive killer machines by jumping around some ruins for 20 minutes, the audience doesn't know what the hell is happeneing, you barely get to dwell on the Superb ruins for a couple of seconds and so in a sense there is no backdrop, save for the desert canyon area which gives a moment of respite from the shaking.
The transformations weren't as good as the 1, there is even a proper giant transformer which is made of 5 vehicles, and they show you the vehicles juping onto a macine and the machine after, but they don't show you the transformation. which should take at least a few seconds. all the transformations are a 1 second blur unfortunately.
the goody robots are abit more stupid than in 1, with big wonky teeth and silly voices. surprised me.
It moves too fast, and there are barely any scenes that are cinematic or scene like, its a blur of machines and scenery.
That said, the actors are Great, no complaints, fun people to see.
there are some awesome moments. some of the human moments are pretty good, nice settings in college and Egypt.
the end was kind of good and different, a mass of human and robot large shots in a surge of passion, it works out okay because without a climax at the end it would have been pretty drab! i have short memory.
the good thing about art and music is the silence and the emptiness in between the events. here there was only events, no pause for thought or feelings, but pretty spectacular. for a shallow exciting blast, its 8/10