In the history of movies, very few follow-ups have improved on the original. Most have been let-downs. Some of epic scale that left people wondering what the heck they were even thinking.
Transformers II is along the lines of epic. The original Transformers was witty all the way through. It didn’t have anything offensive other than a robot peeing on someone. OK, you ask, a robot peeing? You get the drift of how logical the original was. The follow-up took the peeing scene and ran wild with it. Nothing makes sense in this follow-up. It is bloated with too-long fight scenes. Most of the time, I couldn’t tell who the bad bots were or who the good bots were. It just got that muddled. Once again they toss out one fleeting piece of eye-candy:
However, in the first movie, you felt like you were seeing something you really shouldn’t be enjoying as much as you were. In the follow-up, it’s all over the place. It’s in your face the entire time. The bad angel is now a Centerfold. It lost its appeal pretty quick for me. And, just as quickly, the entire movie lost its appeal to me. The movie gets off to a semi-fun start. The part where Shia freaks out is funny. But, from there, it’s just boring. It’s one fight scene after another and nothing entertaining in between. I never expect a logical plot with a Transformers movie, but this one was too hard to follow. The bots looked too similar so that when they fought, there was no way for an adult to get involved. I just sat there and watched metal on metal. Bots dieing just doesn’t yank at my heart strings. Once it was over, I was glad the sensory assault was over. In the ultimate judgment, the boy did not ask to come and see it again. He does want to see Star Trek for a sixth time. Not wanting a second showing is pretty harsh. Only Knowing got that treatment this year.
No thumbs. They just didn’t think this thing through too well.
Actually, there were two scenes worth remembering:
Ya think “Introduction to Astronomy” was a give-away? I tried to figure out what the reference for aeromental.com was, but apparently they can’t handle the load from the movie. However, the textbook appears to be completely fake. So, it appears to me that what could have been a very cool puzzle within a movie has turned out to be, well, nothing.
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