$12 for: 1 pair of tickets, 2drinks $ Popcorn(which i didnt want), food catering (yummy Mexican chicken drumlet!) End up no space to eat popcorn so didnt take. Wahaha. Damn this is wu hua! Too bad our seats were quite close to the front, cos free seating and all the kiasu pple already jam up the door waiting for the opening.
Only got 1 word to describe my feeling after watching the movie: Disappointing
Therefore i giving the movie 2/5
The ST Life section got 1 reviewer give it 0.5/5 stars, with the review titled "Louder and Dumber". I mean, its TF right? What could go wrong?
Alas, theres so many things wrong with the movie the title "louder and dumber" really is an apt description. Its literally a nonsensical plot interspaced with some comedy followed by non-stop explosions, full screen of confusing to follow clashing metals, followed by more explosions and dust. This is michael bay at his worst: he just kicked the transformer mythology in the nuts and shoved it out the door in exhange for a roller coaster ride of explosion and dust. For everything right he did in TF1, well, he did everything wrong here.
The movie started at a nice pace, mixing action, a little bit of story, some comedy, then back to action...the pace was pretty good for the 1st hour or so. And when optimus kicked the bucket, everything goes down the drain. Hell the last 30mins was just scene after scene of non stop explosion(and i dun mean this in a good way) before ending in a whole mess without any climax watsoever.
For a story about transformers there are so many irrelevant parts. I'm sure the dogs humping, mom getting high on weed and sexual innuendo jokes add some humour into the otherwise monotonous show, and i guess no one is going to complain abt too much megan fox either.
Then there's the story... or whats left of it... its rubbish... it feels very "forced" in other to be a sequel. So many loop holes, unexplained parts, ridiculous settings like "The fallen" is suppose to be so strong that only a "Prime" can take it down, then why isnt it just wipe out the rag tag team of autobots when they were just a small team, heck why didnt it just off-ed prime when it got the chance, or even steal his goddamn carcass when megatron was done with him.
The opening fight against Demolisher(The red white excavator) and Sideways(R8) was pretty good... and Sideways, without saying a single line, was sliced in half by Sideswipe, who muttered his single line. With the death of 2 decepticons before the opening was over, this set the pace for the rest of the film: everything is going to be loud and last 5 mins on screen. Then there's the twins: They're ugly, hardly comedic, talks like a fake black homie - hell they are Revenge's version of jar jar blinks. Sidewipe and Arcee barely get any screen time, hell u hardly notice Jolt! (Did u see jolt? he's the blue Chev Volt. )
And this 2 clowns get to jack up the screen time... FOR WAT?! At least that irritating room mate provides some comic relief - can't fault a guy for tasing his own balls. These 2 have no redemption quality, and it gets worse: pple are blaming them for racial stereotyping and inciting racial hatred.
Oh and if anything Hasbro contributed, its their tendency to do repaints. A repaint is a toy, which they add a new code of color and call it a different character. Optimus prime is frequently repainted as Ultra Magnus and Starscream have his own army of repaints. You'll see almost a repaint of all the dead transformers in the movie = Blackout was DEAD, and woah, theres Grindor - a blue twin of blackout. Demolisher kicked the bucket in the opening, and his lookalike scavenger formed part of devastator, along with Mixmaster and Rampage repaint. And all that random decepticons in the last fight look like Starscream's protoform x 5.
Whats the point of packing so many 1 dimensional transformers in the movie, when each of them has no back story, hardly talks, barely get 5mins of screen time, ended up killed in an explosion...
The large transformers, esp the decepticons, tend to look mostly silver/grey. When more than 2 of them are on screen, lurging at each other, you can't tell who's humping who, and the camera crew which consists of Blair Witch project amateurs doesnt help at all. Even worse is when the decepticons are not humanoid in shape, at least for Megatron u can still make up where the arms and legs are, for the others like Savenger, Demolisher, etc, where they are not humanoid, another robot jumping on the first robot and then followed by some shaky cam and all i get is a mish mash of grey robot orgy on screen followed by random explosions.
Then there's the Pretender Alice and the insecticons, which scream WTF in their own way. For a min there i thot i was watching Terminator3. And the insecicons even more "wtf". A bunch of metal flies join up to form a paper thin robot?? Pls leave ur brain at the door, and remember not to read up on the laws of conversation of mass and physics.
Dun even get me started on how the scriptwriter bastardized the Matrix of Leadership into just some silly key to unlock an even sillier harvester, before both of it are destroyed by just 1 blast from Optimus. its the FUCKING MATRIX. Heck the fight between the Fallen and Prime hardly last 5mins! This is like how a couple gets a hotel room, decorate it with a 100 roses, foreplays for 30mins and when penetration occurs, its all over in 3 mins. Yep u watch a 2.5hr movie and the final battle between good and evil! Prime and Fallen! barely last 3 mins.
But i guess that's becos of this new situation:all the transformers are as fragile as a glass bottle. Every hit causes some part of the robot to fall off. Its suppose to make u feel, oh that attack is so powerful, but to me it feels like they are really brittle. Devastator? Big deal: 1x ray gun took care of that. Hell if they had such a powerful raygun, u think that they can jolly well take out the Harvestor in one shot, dun even need to wait for it to activate. Hell why not use it to shoot down the whole damn decepticons with it.
Oh and devastator:
Thanks for taking out everything thats fearsome about him. We could use another sad sand eating moron in the TF-verse.
A guy that big with an equally big mouth cant even take out a jarjarblink transformer. WHY NOT!? Theres 2 of them! NO one will care if one of them fucking died, hell kill them both.
I watch the first movie without expecting much and it blew all the expectations away. I watch the 2nd movie hoping it would do the same and it blew all my expectations to an all time low. In the end, i left the theatre disappointed.
"But watch me run in slow motion while my boobs juggle anyway"
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