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4/10
Too boring, too off-mark and too drawn out
24 June 2009
I honestly thought this movie could have pulled things off in an hour and a half, maybe even an hour and ten minutes. There were too many unfunny comic reliefs, the sidekicks were off- mark and the entire movie is TOO long.

I thoroughly enjoy watching Optimus Prime and the Autobots kick ass. I thoroughly enjoy Decepticons and their numerous gizmos. But serious, some Autobots and Decepticons didn't even get names, and if it wasn't for their size difference I wouldn't have been able to tell whether the Decepticons were Transformers or Terminators. There's THAT MUCH character to the individual Transformer. Even Prime seemed uncertain and wavering in this sequel.

And the comic reliefs. They may have been hilarious for soft porn lovers, but they simply didn't cut it for a movie directed at young adults trying to catch a ride back into good old Transformers and young children who would have been looking for TRANSFORMING ROBOTS.

Plus Bay never fails to put in as much kickass American MILITARY PRIDE in his movies. I'm not even going to comment on this; it's the guy's right as a director to do what he will to his movies, but I honestly don't think it'll sit well with many of the audience.

Oh, did I mention that the movie is too long? I went into the movie theatre expecting nothing from the story-line (I mean, I was there to watch robots blow things up and get blown up) but the glaring plot-holes carried on and on and on and on....hanging out like some serpentine tongue. Yeah. That's right, serpentine tongue. I dare you to watch the movie and find out.
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1/10
Horrid, Dreadful, Ugh.
10 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I usually don't write user comments on IMDb, but this is one movie that I just had to steer people away from. It's dreadfully boring, unimaginative, absolutely one-dimensional and utterly devastating to your movie morning/afternoon/night/dawn (pick your choice). I kept on praying that the film roll get cut off or something so that I could demand my money back and get out of the theater.

I won't make any spoilers, since there may well be those of you who wish to see before making judgements (although I don't recommend it). To make a comparison, to me it felt like a sordid mixture of Buffy inside Dark City kicking it out with Matrix wannabes. (No offence intended to either Dark City or Matrix, the former of which I consider a cult classic in its own right and the latter which I hold as entertainable.) The central characters are hardly given any development, cliché themes pop out of nowhere, and the villains wearing shiny shiny plastic clothes and makeup that gives them the "spacemen" suit image and "I'm a scrunched-up scary monster"...there are B-movies that are fun to enjoy, and there are B-movies that simply seem dying to brand themselves with the "F" grade. Needless to say, this one belongs to the latter.

Don't watch this movie unless you're drunk alone at home and bored to death.

...I want my money back.
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