Pretty Good, But Not Quite Worth The Headache

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2009)

I just saw the movie today. I'd remembered how much I had enjoyed the first movie and was expecting this one to be as good as if not better then the first. It was a good movie, lots of actions and it did keep me interested through the whole film. However, there were a lot of plot holes, useless characters, bad acting (Megan Fox) and bits that were very slow bits and also many ideas were left unfinished or abandoned completely. Don't take this film to seriously, the first one was WAY better. I just wished they had stuck with one or two themes through the whole film and developed the characters better. There was a great deal of pointless romantic bits with Sam and Mikeala that were really cold and had no chemistry to them. Most interactions with women in the film bordered on soft core porn. Or with Sam's mom, her getting high within a short time in the film and acting like a psycho. All of the females in the film were really boring, dumb, fake and pointless. You couldn't feel spark with Sam and his girlfriend, it just all felt like a beginning plot to a bad pornography. For some reason to, all the women look similar and all have tans. Megan Fox was about as useful as a rock, not useful to the story one bit. She starts off the movie right away looking like she's going to hump the motorcycle she's sitting on in a mini skirt. Instead of having so many stupid soft core porn bits and useless bickering between the twin gangster robots and that dumb kid from Sam's college that ends up with them, they should have focused more on the dialog and relationship between the characters. I don't mind if they put funny bits in to lighten the mood or sexual chemistry between a Sam and his girl (given that it makes sense). But seriously, put some depth into the characters and come up with some better jokes that don't just fizzle off at the end. However, the robot with the giant wrecking balls for testicles was funny and so was the little humping robot. It was amusing, perverted humor is fun sometimes but not all the time. I kept wondering where the little robot kept disappearing off to, the same with many of the characters, one second they are there, the next they just off and disappear. The visual effects, while amazing, made me dizzy, I'm still getting over a migraine from the quick turns and angles of the camera. I'd have liked if they had made more roles for Bee to speak with his radio, that's far more amusing then fart jokes. If you've seen the first film, go ahead and watch this, it's interesting, but don't expect great things from it. It's a good movie for when your lazy and don't really care about a deep plot, take some Excedrin ahead of time though, you'll need it.
~Anti~