Someone Transform This Series

Rating: 4/10 (12 July 2009)

One part of me wants to trash Transformers II – Revenge of the Fallen real bad. Another part, however, asks – what is it we were expecting anyway. Shia LaBeouf, vulnerable and quite the center of affairs. Megan Fox, sizzling, a modicum of dialogue also thrown in for effect. Relentless action sequences (with the side effect of destroying the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). This is a teenage movie series, and we stepped in, forewarned of the same, and got everything that we might have expected. The question is – did this movie lift the franchise to a higher level? Did it lend character to Optimus Prime the way it clearly sought to do. Did you want to make up our minds about whether humans should be taking sides in an extraterrestrial battle, or whether the Autobots should be sharing their military technology with humans. I guess not, because this movie did not quite click