Review: Transformers
First of all, it wasn’t bad. At least not as bad as I’d been lead to believe from many of the reviews I’d read. The base plot was actually a step up from the first movie.
Second, it had a lot of room for improvement, but most of that improvement could be summed up with this list:
- Get Rid of All Humping, whether it’s dogs humping each other, dogs humping legs, or mini decepticons humping legs.
- Get rid of the unnecessary scrotum references. Really, why does a robot need balls?
- Get rid of the jive-talking twins. Though the chinese ice-cream truck was charming, the twins themselves, I think, shall forevermore be the Jar-Jar Binks of Transformers. That is, they’re really, really annoying.
Honestly, some parts of this movie seemed to have been written by rather than written for twelve-year-old boys.
Had they left all of that out, it would have improved the movie 100-fold. It was still fun, though. Both Optimus and Bumblebee were awesome to watch. It was a fun action movie with plenty of robots fighting each other. When you go to see Transformers, what more do you expect? It’s not Oscar material here, not something intended to be an art-house flick. It’s an action movie, pure and simple, fun and slightly stupid (though in the above cases, stupid far beyond what it had to be). Expecting it to be more than that will just leave you disappointed. It also is not, and never will be, the Transformers that we all grew up with….
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