The first Transformers movie was great, so I had high hopes for the sequel. I was let down a bit. The commercials and publicity of this second movie had me very excited and I may have set my expectations a little too high. I was expecting one of the best movies of the year from Transformers but this just wasn’t it.
The movie follows up with Sam (Shia LaBeouf) going away to college and trying out a long distance relationship with Mikaela (Megan Fox). The Autobots have stayed on Earth and are working with the U.S. military to remove the remaining Decepticons from the planet. Sam finds a piece of the Alspark in his jacket and it embeds some ancient language into his brain. The Decepticons want the information in his mind, and Sam has to decipher the language before the Decepticons kill him for it. I think the problem with the Autobots is that when they need something done, they give it to the smallest guy on the team. “We have to get this to the other side of the desert”. “Give it to Sam, he’s fast”. Yes, give it to the guy who can’t defend himself against huge robots and probably should have died running around in the desert with a leather jacket on.
The first fifteen to thirty minutes of this movie is crap. I went to see this movie for the action, not the humor. You can barely make it a few minutes without something funny being said or done. Once again, a movie that tries too hard to be funny. After about thirty minutes of never ending comedy it actually gets back to what it was supposed to be, action packed. They throw in the normal one liners you would expect and the rest of the movie is pretty good. The action is pretty steady throughout the movie and they don’t overdo the humor much in the rest of the movie. The storyline is pretty weak and it just feels like they came up with the plot by drawing it out of a hat. They might as well have had a meteor hurling towards Earth and the Autobots had to drill to 8,000 feet to blow it up with a nuke. I guess they wouldn’t have needed Shia LaBeouf or Megan Fox for that though.
I think you have to see this movie in theaters, if the movie is average on the big screen it will be close to poor on your mediocre sound system and 52″ LCD.
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