Wow...

Rating: 2/10 (25 June 2009)

I was a fan of the first film. It was decent for what it was about; transforming robots. Not a big fan of the original cartoons but I loved playing with the toys growing up. So my buddy and I went to catch this film opening night, and we walked out of there feeling like our lives had been deprived, as in we wanted not only our money back but our time we lost seeing the film.
It follows the same basic formula the first one did; you got the transforming robots, hot girls, an O.K. cast, lots of explosions, but this one failed whereas the first one pulled it off. For starters, I laughed just a couple of times throughout the movie. O.K. so it wasn't meant to be a comedy, I'll keep watching for redeeming qualities. They never came. It was like watching Terminator Salvation all over again where it was the most unrealistic (and I'm not talking about transforming robots that fight unrealistic) movie I've ever seen. I expected this. The first film was unrealistic. However, at least they got some of the military stuff right which in this movie it's just all wrong wrong wrong.
Then there's the plot development, or the lack thereof. Again, it's a Michael Bay vehicle I more than expected this. However, I didn't expect a COMPLETE lack of plot. It's as though literally the explosions came first and what there was of story was thought of on the spot as dubbing for the transformers. It was kiddish (again, Transformers, but more so than the first) it was filled with dumb dialogue from both autobots and decepticons, and it made me angry is what it did. I don't walk out of movies feeling like that; they don't get to me, but this one was just so horrendously bad that I couldn't help but feel mad I had to sit through it.
You know there are people who loved it in there and they clapped, good for them. Just means that if this film succeeds Hollywood is going to again insult the movie going intelligence in order to make their millions. This is O.K. I'm all for making money, but also there's supply and demand, and I really hope demand for a third film is so low they'll just save their money and make something else. That's my dream, don't think it'll happen like that though.