Transformers 2: Less than meets the eye
Reviewed by Ricky, Raymond, and Jessica
– One word to describe Michael Bay’s direction: Corny.
– Too busy and frantic, tries too hard to be cute, no one has time for an emotional reaction.
– I know some guys who cried at the Transformers animated movie when a character died. In this movie when someone dies I feel nothing but exhaustion.
– He doesn’t know when to stop, he just throws everything in.
– You didn’t love my Pearl Harbor, and now you will pay!
– Basically this movie was directed by a dick.
– If it were a song it would be Endless Love. Cheese on top of cheese on top of cheese.
– What is the cheesiest Lionel Richie song? Endless Love, All Night Long, or Hello?
– Hello.
– Especially the part in the video where he picks up the phone and sings, Hello.
– Guess the one Lionel Richie song I like.
– That’s easy, Easy.
– I like the cover by Faith No More.
– What’s with all the lens flares?!
– Help, I can’t tell the good robots from the bad robots, to me they all look like. . .robots.
– The humans look orange.
– Shia’s nose is enormous. (You know what they say about guys with big noses. Giant boogers.)
– Megan’s boobs should get separate billing.
– Core audience of Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen: 14-year-old boys.
– Gaah, the soundtrack. There’s my emo rock quota for all of 2009.
– Oh please, not another shot of guys in uniform all in a row walking towards the camera in slow motion.
– Oy and more jets launched from aircraft carriers. There’s a fetish.
– Steven Spielberg should’ve smacked Michael Bay for every hero shot.
– Eek, there’s a poster of an earlier Michael Bay movie.
– Look at Megan’s amazing skin-tight white pants, they can cross a desert without getting dirty!
– Note gleeful destruction of antiquities.
– They took bits from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica, everything.
– But John Turturro is always worth watching.
– Josh Duhamel: Ryan Seacrest as a man.
– The last sequence is a football game. Throwing, running, tackling.
– Transformers is really about the American car industry and how it protects the people. Ironically the American car industry has just been declared dead.
– Transformers would be fun if you didn’t feel like you’d been slapped around for two hours, twenty minutes. Then again it’s a movie about cars that are really alien warrior robots.
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June 24th, 2009 at 03:12
this is sad. i really liked the first one.
June 24th, 2009 at 05:07
The trailer reminded me of a scene in the movie Matilda where the boy was forced to wolf down an entire chocolate cake.
I’ve noticed that when a movie has a surfeit of special effects, it usually leaves no room for anything else. Your review just confirmed my theory. Thank you for saving me P120.
June 24th, 2009 at 16:26
You can never underestimate the power of Megan Fox’s come hither poses to attract blockbuster numbers (a.k.a. hot-blooded straight males).
I just hope they’ll never think of her if this Wonder Woman adaptation ever comes to pass.
June 24th, 2009 at 18:18
– Megan’s boobs should get separate billing.
Sold! Im seeing this movie.
June 24th, 2009 at 20:55
Faith no more’s Easy is also a hit for me… Didn’t see the first one, don’t have plans to see the second—and what, tarnish my memories of the Autobots and Decepticons? NO WAY :D
June 24th, 2009 at 20:56
If my bro is allowed to comment, this is his comment:
Loved the football sequence and aircraft carriers, and also “Hello” of Lionel Richie. Hello.
June 24th, 2009 at 21:02
What did you think about the two new Autobots – Skids & Mudflap? They sound like jive-talkin’ African-American characters aimed at snaring the hip-hop audience!!! Will Smith-style jug ears and a gold tooth? Kulang na lang, mag-bling bling pa!!!
When I saw Wheelie sneak up at Mikaela (Megan Fox), it made me wanna scream “Wall-E!!!”
June 26th, 2009 at 21:31
i guess i must be a 14yr old boy then. u raise some very valid points, but i thought mostly the same for drag me to hell and wolverine and yet that didn’t stop me from deeming them wildly entertaining. not every movie needs to be intellectually stimulating, and i think this movie achieves that… well, okay, maybe it did go a little overboard. because there were so many explosioins and cgi stuff, u really can’t stop to appreciate any of them anymore, which was a shame. nevertheless, i still don’t think it’s as bad as u make it out to be, it just didn’t live up to all the hype.
:-)
June 27th, 2009 at 16:20
The arc shots made my head spin. I don’t know what’s with the arc shots but Bay used a lot of it in the movie. The middle part was way too dragging, my friend slept through it…
June 29th, 2009 at 18:26
I left the moviehouse @ 1 in the am, just to find myself wishing I should have slept instead. It’s an action-packed movie with a flitting plot; T2 cannot settle into a more concrete story. Save for the comedy and the CGI and sfx, the stature of Transformers was murdered!
I can’t believe Bay created a Yoda-like green robot (one of the twins: dunno if he’s Skids or Mudflap), a pervert Gollum-like robot, a ‘Matrix’ of Leadership and a Da Vinci Code adventure. Whatever he’s trying to do, borrowing icons.
Also, I thought the budget is big enough to buy condominiums for the robots. But they’ve used the same dessert set! It’s like watching a movie with alternative scenes.
And yes, the robots are indistinguishable. As if we could see their insignias without superhuman eyes. But my friend told me she could tell the Autobots apart from the Decepticons. Blue eyes and Red eyes.
The irritation doesn’t end there. When the Fallen guy died, Megatron is still alive. Isn’t he the forever archenemy of Prime? The reason for the first movie and his resurrection created the second installment. I know, the movie’s too lengthy to include their match. Save it for the third. Geez!
June 30th, 2009 at 12:01
Plot was so simple: the sun may explode, Optimus may die, but the lip gloss of Megan Fox should be saved!