Yes, I chose the movie poster with Megan Fox on it - BIG surprise huh? :-D
This is obviously the blockbuster that a lot of people were waiting for this summer. No, not gay vampires, no not mini-wizards or even frozen mammoths, sloths and sabre-tooth tigers (though I am seeing that one!) but Alien Robots that turn into GM cars and Megan Fox (oh, and Josh Duhamel for the ladies.)
As you are all well-aware of the "Romantic Comedy formula" there is also a blockbuster sequel formula - "Bigger = Better" (though it's debatable, that's the formula) and Michael Bay is a master of the HUGE summer blockbuster formula as well as the sequel formula, and this one does not disappoint!
More alien robots turning into vehicles (and they used the prototype Corvette in this one, which is SICK!!!), more explosions, more Megan Fox and a new hottie that plays a decepticon babe trying to get to Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), killer fight scenes, killer explosions, the biggest decepticon ever and special effects that are downright amazing. I was a little ticked that the Audi R8 was a decepticon AND got killed by the corvette, but GM is desperate to get out of bankruptcy and so they're trying to trash Audi to get more Americans to buy American. We'll see if their plan works, I tend to think going negative doesn't work - focus on your own features and benefits GM, don't disparage others.
Some will say the story is lacking in this sequel. I have to say...SO WHAT? The story in the first movie was so compelling? No, the story is the same - good vs. evil and attractive people beating the odds and somehow surviving giant aliens trying to step on them or blow them up. It begs the question, are attractive people impervious to explosions? Are they able to dodge giant alien feet more easily than less attractive people? Frankly, I have no problem with that, it's just darwinism helped along by alien robots disquised as construction equipment (by the way, shouldn't the bad buy construction vehicles be called destructicons instead of constructicons? I mean they come together to be called Devastator! Just a thought).
Overall I'll give this movie a 3.5 out of 5. If you're not a big Transformers fan, or a big summer blockbuster fan in general, then wait for Red Box. The rest of the world will be there this week and Michael Bay will make an obscene amount of money - it's the payoff for the formula, and this one definitely fits the bill and it is pretty cool.
1 comment:
Had I seen this post BEFORE the Ticked Off Tuesday posting, I know my mouth would need some editing either here over at the Big Hair party, but...since I can understand the degree of which your seventh-deadly-sin goes to when it comes to the Audi, I'll let you have a hall pass on this one. Just this once. Just to see how it feels...
But let's not let this type of posting happen ever again:)
-B
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