What can I say? It was action-packed. It was entertaining. There were laughs, some were really hilarious, some were plain stupid. The plot was lacking, it really made me wonder why on earth the Decepticons don't invade in force. The Decepticons were not one who were subtle in the cartoon, but in the movie, they didn't want to reveal themselves to the people of earth till the second movie? On the eve of activating the weapon to destroy the earth?
You wonder why the running trend of Hollywood: To create prequels within the sequel itself, to fill in the missing backstory, so that the sequel can flow forward. It turns out, much of the Allspark had the history of the Transformers within, which was left with shards. No idea how that last shard got attached to Sam's sweater, clearly Optimus Prime took it out of Megatron's remains in the first movie. Strange that the Transformers themselves didn't know their own history, and how to activate and use the Allspark, other than Bumblebee miniaturising it in the first movie.
If a Transformer is killed, it seems, even with a shard of the Allspark, it will bring him back to life, regardless of how dead he seems. No memory lost, nothing, Megatron awakes hellbent on revenge, almost like he was in cryostasis.
Although Devastator's transformations were spectacular, the robot in itself was kind of a disappointment. The cartoon Devastator was a green robot, more like Megatron's muscle. In this movie, he was this clumsy hulk of a robot, that had the ability to suck stuff through his mouth and eventually break it down and out his back. He did nothing more than to tear the top of the pyramids apart, to reveal the Sun Harvester - how convenient! That and well, watch out for his metal balls, literally gives new meaning to the term bang balls!
The Decepticons are growing hatchlings? Whatever for, it wasn't explained in the movie, all that was mentioned was that without a new source of energon, they will continue to hatch and then die. Are the Decepticons reproducing? Their little hatchery reminded me of Count Dracula's spawn in the movie Van Helsing!
The Fallen, they look more elaborate than having the ability to transform. If the Fallen was the first Decepticon, he was a sad case. Was their base located near Saturn in the solar system itself? Why can't they just mobilize everything and attack earth?
I must say, there was good film editing done, because when Sam and Makaela was running towards the camp, they ran from Petra at Jordan, to the pyramids in Egypt, running through the pillars at Luxor and then trying to make their way to the marine encampment to bring the Matrix of Leadership to revive Optimus Prime! The movie made everyone believe that Jordan and Egypt are in the same garden, just a stone's throw away from each other.
All the transformers, especially the Decepticons, looked much to elaborate. So much so, that I couldn't tell which was Starscream, or whether or not Megatron was hit during the attack. All Decepticons seem to be able to fly, whereas Autobots confine their disguise to cars, trucks, lorrys, pickups and motorbikes! The only Decepticon enjoyable to watch was Soundwaver, he was a satellite and he did all the work!
The twin transformers, they were like that Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks! I couldn't believe they had to provide that sort of slapstick entertainment in the movie. What's more, they made them bling-bling, and did I see correctly, one of the twins had gold teeth. The strange thing is that my colleague who was watching the movie with me, also wondered where they disappeared to. After their Devastator tango, they vanished and were not part of the ending. Something got edited out perhaps, or they finally realized how stupid they were and deleted them!
Overall, fun-filled action-packed, great for the family, good laughs, and oh, almost forgot to mentioned the G-string jockstrap worn by Agent Simmons, that almost blinded me when I saw his ass!
Highly recommended only for entertainment value and tons of kick-ass explosions, and for kids 10 years or older.
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You wonder why the running trend of Hollywood: To create prequels within the sequel itself, to fill in the missing backstory, so that the sequel can flow forward. It turns out, much of the Allspark had the history of the Transformers within, which was left with shards. No idea how that last shard got attached to Sam's sweater, clearly Optimus Prime took it out of Megatron's remains in the first movie. Strange that the Transformers themselves didn't know their own history, and how to activate and use the Allspark, other than Bumblebee miniaturising it in the first movie.
If a Transformer is killed, it seems, even with a shard of the Allspark, it will bring him back to life, regardless of how dead he seems. No memory lost, nothing, Megatron awakes hellbent on revenge, almost like he was in cryostasis.
Although Devastator's transformations were spectacular, the robot in itself was kind of a disappointment. The cartoon Devastator was a green robot, more like Megatron's muscle. In this movie, he was this clumsy hulk of a robot, that had the ability to suck stuff through his mouth and eventually break it down and out his back. He did nothing more than to tear the top of the pyramids apart, to reveal the Sun Harvester - how convenient! That and well, watch out for his metal balls, literally gives new meaning to the term bang balls!
The Decepticons are growing hatchlings? Whatever for, it wasn't explained in the movie, all that was mentioned was that without a new source of energon, they will continue to hatch and then die. Are the Decepticons reproducing? Their little hatchery reminded me of Count Dracula's spawn in the movie Van Helsing!
The Fallen, they look more elaborate than having the ability to transform. If the Fallen was the first Decepticon, he was a sad case. Was their base located near Saturn in the solar system itself? Why can't they just mobilize everything and attack earth?
I must say, there was good film editing done, because when Sam and Makaela was running towards the camp, they ran from Petra at Jordan, to the pyramids in Egypt, running through the pillars at Luxor and then trying to make their way to the marine encampment to bring the Matrix of Leadership to revive Optimus Prime! The movie made everyone believe that Jordan and Egypt are in the same garden, just a stone's throw away from each other.
All the transformers, especially the Decepticons, looked much to elaborate. So much so, that I couldn't tell which was Starscream, or whether or not Megatron was hit during the attack. All Decepticons seem to be able to fly, whereas Autobots confine their disguise to cars, trucks, lorrys, pickups and motorbikes! The only Decepticon enjoyable to watch was Soundwaver, he was a satellite and he did all the work!
The twin transformers, they were like that Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks! I couldn't believe they had to provide that sort of slapstick entertainment in the movie. What's more, they made them bling-bling, and did I see correctly, one of the twins had gold teeth. The strange thing is that my colleague who was watching the movie with me, also wondered where they disappeared to. After their Devastator tango, they vanished and were not part of the ending. Something got edited out perhaps, or they finally realized how stupid they were and deleted them!
Overall, fun-filled action-packed, great for the family, good laughs, and oh, almost forgot to mentioned the G-string jockstrap worn by Agent Simmons, that almost blinded me when I saw his ass!
Highly recommended only for entertainment value and tons of kick-ass explosions, and for kids 10 years or older.
3 out of 5 stars
