ANOMALOUS MATERIAL

No synopsis to the movie because there is essentially no story worth summarizing here.

Positives: The movie is action packed, from beginning to end. The fight scenes are actually viewable this time around. One complaint from the previous movie was that the action was too fast and blurry and most people had no idea who was actually beating the shit out of whom. Optimus Prime taking out those three Decepticons early on is a highlight. Second, you actually get that for 147 minutes. In these tough economic times, you are getting some bang for the bucks. Finally the movie is just one giant eye candy: Explosions, robots hammering each other, military hardware, and Megan Fox! Unlike the previous movie, you will get to have Megan Fox on the screen 146 minutes out of 147. Even though any half respectable man would be protective of his lady and ditch her at the first occasion so she can actually live to see another day, Sam Witwicky doesn’t seem to care enough about her to do so. This results in having Megan Fox running around with him although she doesn’t bring anything whatsoever to the story. I’m sure not one to complain.

Negatives: Some of the cheap comedy and all of the romance made me cringe enough to want to kill a chicken! Acting wise, props go to John Turturro for playing the psychotic former-Agent Simmons. Just about everyone else was going with the flow at best as the freaking robots upstaged the real actors!!! If you have watched Disturbia or Eagle Eye, you will notice Shia LaBeouf is exactly the same character in every movie. Megan Fox has very limited range and has troublesome issues delivering lines in a credible and assertive way which really hurt the romance part of the movie. The hallmarks of a good actor or actress is that you find a way to deliver sometime cheesy or terrible lines in a believable way. No one is asking for a oscar worthy performance but you have to make it credible.

Finally, well this movie will lower your IQ by at least 30% in a little more than 2 hours, and this won’t even be due to the lack of a coherent plot. The movie will bring you to Paris where a clown comes up to you while you eat escargot? You will go to Egypt where every frame has a camel wandering around. You will see a soldier radioing back to a command center in the US for reinforcement, and about 10 seconds later, a company of Marines with tanks arrive from the sea, and 20 aircrafts are strafing the bad robots. No one is going to go and see Transformers for its romantic story, cheap comedy, or to learn about the Egyptian culture but please don’t insult the viewer’s intelligence!!!