An unintended comedy

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2017)

I loved the 1st movie of the series, so every time one of the Transformers movie is on TV, I make time to watch. This installment of the series has, a priori, a good starting point. The special effects are fabulous, both regarding the robotics, and also the real-life city scenes with fights.
What made the first film successful, beyond the X-effects, was its freshness, a decent story line, sense of humour, good-timed action, and the acting was at least OK.
The freshness is gone in this movie, the pace of the film is like a constant unattended spasmodic heart-attack and the acting is pedestrian on all parts. LeBeouff and Duzamel are not making themselves any favor, like cut from cardboard. Megan Fox should take some acting lessons because she is terrible in this movie, her "acting' reduced to posing in tight pants and be the accessory of the other characters; that is not her fault, the lack of development of the character, but she is not even good at that. She was acceptable in the first film, so I don't know what happened to her in between. At least the actors who play LeBeouff's parents were OK.
My first half an hour was a raw roar in crescendo. I was getting upset. Why? Pedestrian acting, impossible non-believable happenings in the story, poor stunts, poor development of the story, poor dialogues, lack of freshness, bad pace, and too much pretentiousness. A real put off for multi-million movie.
Then, I caught myself laughing, not laughing because the movie makes you laugh, but laughing at the movie, because some things are so bad, that despite the gazillion dollars spent on this film, this movie felt like a B movie, actually a Z movie. There is fun in the Z. I found that if one watches this film as a comedy, it is way more enjoyable than if one watches it as a science-fiction adventure multi-million film. An unintended comedy. So I ended having a good time!