Of Course Action Packed But Lacking In More Than a Few Areas

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2009)

After not too long of a wait, Transformers 2 has finally arrived. If you were expecting the flawed yet lovable first film then too bad, so sad. If you were expecting a live-action version of the show with pure giants robots fighting each other then you're in luck. This film simply isn't on par with its predecessor. The action and SFX are obviously beyond superb, but what film's aren't these days? Micheal Bay seriously needs to stop thinking non stop action and crude humor will make a sensational movie. He simply failed here. The story feels like kind of a jumbled mess if you ask me, but it gets the job done I guess. Bay just tries to really over do the film really. Somehow big explosions and cool sound effects are going to make this film out do the first but I'm not buying it. Megan Fox on top of a motor cycle in tiny booty shorts, "special brownies", dogs and decepticons humping multiple objects and plenty of foul language are just a few of examples of how our director tries to keep our interest during this nearly 3-hour film. Shia LaBeouf can definitely act, as he's proved before in multiple films, but he really down rates him self here.
The dialouge between Sam and his girl friend is so painfully corny at times one can barely stand to watch. Still, the humor undeniably saves the film and adds what it does to it. It does however subtract from the screen time for our new autobots who indeed looked incredibly bad ass. All they do is shoot and get shot, unlike in the first film where we actually had time to get to know each autobot. Except for the "twin" robots who were actually getting annoying by the end of the film. The decepticons aren't characterized very well honestly and all too often are portrayed as mindless monsters. Luckily Star Scream returns but the battles are so chaotic, one can hardly tell the bad guys apart.