Soft porn/action rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2009)

Talk about a disappointment! Besides the blurred fighting between two robots - which looked like two greys things pounding each other - the random close ups of Megan Fox, and too many sexual jokes: Michael Bay managed to make this movie into soft porn/action rubbish. Does he really think that by having so many repeated and unfunny jokes combined with reducing Megan Fox as a sex symbol that it will make the movie awesome? No it made it painful to watch; the acting was also atrocious and it was worsened thanks to the poorly written dialogue. Seriously it seems like a bunch of teenagers wrote the script: poor dialogue, the racial stereotype, the plot holes which is mind boggling at times. Can I even say there are plot holes? That would mean the movie had a plot - which none existent...
"Surprise, surprise Megatron is somehow revived from the dead! OMG, and then they want to destroy the sun for... energy?" The reason why is vague, if it was explained then it was lost in the random fighting montages. Wow. What an intense story. Seriously it can't get any worse then that, where is the substance? Instead Bay gives us explosions and fights left and right, which at times were pointless. The plot struggled to maintain through the movie, the only thing it managed to do is leave huge holes and confusion.
The plot seemed like random facts/events mashed up together mixed in with references of the old grandpa robots. Not to worry we have mentions swine flu and Obama taking cover, which are supposed to bring realism? It seems like they're grasping at anything to pull this trash together. OK so it's a robot movie, I know I shouldn't have expected lot; some might say that the reason why they watch it is for the awesome robot fights. But even then those were a let down, and who doesn't want some substance when they watch a movie?
Now the robots;what the hell happened? The voice of Starscream - that was the most annoying thing in the movie. Since when did he become Igor? In the first movie they sounded more like robots, they had a sort of metal sound to their voice. They took that away and replaced it with stereotyped and/or annoying voices. It was hard to tell which robot was which, seeing as they were all grey and they were always fighting, so it looked like a bunch of blurs; however, not to worry since the robots have their own insignia so we know who the bad robots are. Jeez. Let's not talk about the racial stereotypes in the movie, it made me cringe. Was it supposed to be funny? And WHY would they show us a robot's balls?? WHY?? What is their obsession with balls and humping?
Finally the last scene is such a huge let down: Optimus Prime suddenly becomes Super robot and destroys Fallen in 2 minutes flat. Frig, where is the epic last battle scene?
Everything that made the first movie entertaining was taken away. I enjoyed the first one and I was excited to see this movie but I was sorely disappointed. I'm giving it 1.5 since some fighting sequence were pretty epic; well, when it was clear enough to see who was fighting who anyways. I should have waited till it came out on DVD.