Forced Fed Films: Transformers 2 (2009)

I've been very vocal with Jim about my interest, or lack there, of seeing the second instalment of the Transformers series. The main reason I never wanted to see the second one was the fact that the first movie did not impress me all that much. It felt like a bunch of mindless shaky cam action woven in with sub-par acting. And I've never really been a Michael Bay fan, which is weird because I love action movies in general. Just his style of explosions, sexy girls and more explosions just felt like a cheap thrill. Here are my thoughts on "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen".




The story begins with Sam (Shia LaBeouf) leaving for college, all is well and seems his life is returning to normal after his first contact with the Autobots. But still in frosh week, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime take Sam away from college and needs to protect him. The Decepticons are after Sam, for he holds the vital information that leads the way to a special key. This key will give the Decepticons the power to start a mass weapon that'll destroy the Sun. It's up to the Autobots as they team up with the humans to defeat the enemy and keep Earth save.

Wasn't even ten minutes into the movie did I see my first BOOM.

Now I hate bringing up the previous movie, but it needs to be done as some of the same problems come up here. Not enough Transformers screen time. I see way too much of the humans in this movie. I don't care for them, they are boring, bland and not entertaining at all. Besides Sam, Simmons (John Turturro) and Leo  (Ramon Rodriguez) everyone sucked. Megan Fox was this mindless bimbo, who I really don't find attractive, and Sam's parents got on my nerves with their tacky humour. And even Leo got real annoying, there was only so much I could take from him.

Thankfully the movie did do something well. It was funny, and I won't be ashamed to admit it but the laughs were cheap but good. They were the lowest form of humour, fart jokes and penis jokes. I do laugh at that because I have the sense of humour of a ten year old. My favourite jokesters were Mudflap and Skidz (the twin robots). Their 'from the streets' lingo and sibling rivalry was fun to watch. And plus they were one of the few robots that had a personality. But I guess for some people that was too much and found them racist, because all robots need to talk like white collared white folk. You think there is a group of robots that find coloured robots wrong? They probably have white triangle heads and would call them self the Karz Klux Klan.

Yeah, we 'bot are cool. The deceptions can suck it!

Now Michael Bay is known to have great action in his movies right? I mean I loved Armageddon and Pearl Harbour wasn't all that bad. So what happened here, it seems he lost his touch. It was nice to see him drop the quick edits and shaky cam, but I assume the reason he had them was because his robot action sucked. It never felt epic, even though the robots are XBOX huge. And at times the battles felt too short and repetitive, thankfully a lot of that was masked up by explosions, explosions and BOOM explosions. That is another thing that threw me off, a lot was happening on the screen at one time. But it instead of it being awesome, it was a jumble of metal clusterfudge. It was even at times hard to distinguish on bot from the other.

Even though I bitched and complained a fair amount, I didn' t hate the movie. I find it better than the first movie, but I need to look at this movie differently. Instead of a robot action movie, it should be considered a human comedy with robots. Because, even Bumblebee, the Transformers are a bunch of side characters. I can't even recall ten robots. But there is no way in hell do I want to see the Third (hopefully last) movie or this ever again.