I don't wanna sound like a sucker, but here's some things I didn't like about Transformers 2. Michael Bay seems like a great director
just because he's directing one of the biggest franchises of all time. The movie is so shallow, filled with cheap humour and things exploding.
1) I thought the robot balls was a cheap attempt at humour. Why on earth did the word "scrotum" and "sac" need to appear in a transformers script! Stooped so darn low.
2) I'm sick of some serious cheesy acting by the klutz Sam Witwicky and his only hot and nothing else girlfriend Mikaela. I would have preferred the time be spent on the other Autobots. Come on, it's already the second movie and we hardly see any weapon prowess from Ironhide, the "Weapons Specialist" nor have we seen the "Medic" Ratchet do any dramatic battlefield treatments. That sort you know. Some teamwork maybe? They have a GREAT cast of Autobots already but they chose not to elaborate on it.
3) General Motors are the car sponsors. Thus the amazing product placements. If you noticed, they put in a character called "Jolt" (The one who shocks Optimus with electric cables when he was combining parts with Jetfire). He has super minimal scenes, so minimal that I was wondering where on earth did that fella come from in the final desert fight scene. Later on, I found out it transformed into a Chevrolet Volt, an attempt by GM to promote their new car. Slot in a character with minimal contributions JUST for advert purposes. Crap.
4) I remember Soundwave transforming into a cute little cassette player in the cartoons. Although the satellite version Soundwave was ubercool, I wished they could have gave him some scenes on earth because he was one of the more memorable Decepticons. It's also disappointing that they killed off Devastator so easily. It's a combination of a few prominent Decepticons! Killed by a man made railgun!? What about the helicopter Decepticon that was so similar to Blackout in the first movie? They ran out of cool vehicles already?
5) Sideswipe? Couldn't tell the difference between him and Jazz. Same old fast action silver sports car cool robot. Seems like a replacement to me. Again, not much time spent on developing the Autobots. Was not an interesting character at all. "
Damn I'm good" You might be good but you have zero personality.
6) Did I say I was annoyed at Sam Witwicky already? And his Mom, seriously. Need I elaborate.
7) Bad attempt at humour also include the inclusion of twin "gangsta" robots(which was perceived as racist and stereotypical by some), dog humping, naked man ass, mom getting high, etc. It was too freaking CORNY!!! The Megan Fox Baywatch style slow motion running was unnecessary.
8) So Bumble Bee can reattach his legs he lost in the first movie but still can't fix his vocal chord? Bumble Bee as a Camaro with a broken vocal chord totally spoils his supposed personality.
9) I read that Michael Bay wanted a Lamborghini for Sideswipe. But obviously he can't get one. You know why. Imagine a Lamborghini Autobot! That would seriously blow your mind off.
10) Megatron is a gun dammit. Change him to a gun. *sorry I diverted there* Anyway it only got 20% on RottenTomatoes.com so you might just wanna read there for some better reviews.
I felt like I paid money to watch an entertaining film. That's all. It wasn't mind blowing. Why? Because the hype is not the same as the first. We've seen Megan Fox, the robot transforming scenes, the huge fighting scenes, we've seen it all. And that's
all we saw. I don't know how to explain it, except that it really lacked depth.
Please Michael Bay, for the third installment, can we have less Shia Lebouf and Megan Fox and more Autobots!
Something like this won't hurt eh.
