Painful and Insulting

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2009)

The usual defense in this situation is, "if you were looking for deep plot and Oscar-worthy acting, then of course you were going to be disappointed." But this is not a valid excuse for the travesty that was Transformers 2. Just because a movie is based off of a cartoon which is based off of a toy, this doesn't mean that the director doesn't have to construct a good plot. Is it terrible to ask that a movie with a $150 million budget have a decent plot line? But a decent plot line there was not. There was something about a key, and a machine to blow up the sun, but the rest of the plot was so haphazardly thrown together that it seemed to have fallen last on the list of Michael Bay's priorities in this film. Priority one was, it seemed, to blow up as much as humanly possible. Some people can endure 2 1/2 hours of explosions, others cannot.
The acting is not only sub-par, it's lazy. It's as if all the actors in the film knew they were only second to the super-cool robots, and so they PLAYED second to the super-cool robots. Shia and Megan's romance was hard to care about, because there was no chemistry, and it was very annoying to see Megan Fox's character embody the "love-obsessed-girlfriend" stereotype. The world is about to blown up and all she can care about is the fact that her boyfriend hasn't said the "l" word yet? Please. At that point, no one cared. In fact, no one really cared about much in this movie except the fights, and it doesn't matter that it's an action movie or not. People still need to care about what they're seeing, it doesn't matter whether it's a movie about the Holocaust, or a movie about a toy. People need to care, or else what's the point of going?