Dundradal
Frog Blast the Vent Core!
Say the movie last night in Imax and was not impressed.
The story might have been ok had it not been 150 minutes long. The final scenes simply drag on for real no purpose.
The Megatron/Fallen/Starscream interactions were pretty bad at times. Could the dialogue have stolen any more from Star Wars? Never mind when the Primes appear to Sam and tell him its his destiny to reanimate Prime. I was pretty disgusted by the connections at points.
The fight scenes at times were ok, but for the most part they were blurry and hard to follow. You never got a sense of who was who during the action. The Decepticons towards the end ended up all looking alike and you didn't really care what happened to them since they only appear for a minute or two then are killed/gone. You were never able to get a good understanding of the transfomers (scale/looks/etc) because of the way the fights are shown.
The surviving Decepticons from the first movie are hardly addressed. Instead we are bombarded with all these new ones that you will never care about because no time is spent in introducing them. The same goes with the Autobots. There are a few new ones but you never find out anything about them. The "twins" however are an abomination. Spewing jive talk, one having a gold tooth, at one point calling a character a "pussy" seem outside good taste and what you'd might expect from an Autobot.
The plot element of killing Prime was stupid and failed to produce the effect they were seeking. In the original movie (cartoon) when Prime dies I remember being devastated. This time, it didn't matter because you could tell that he would be back on his feet by the end of the movie.
The human characters had moments (Megan Fox interacting with her little Decepticon at first the humping leg part was awful), mostly in the first half of the film. The second half was just a tragedy of epic proportions for everyone involved.
The movie lacked suspense because of the final half. 90% of that footage should have been on the cutting room floor. Instead of adding 40 some odd transformers it would have been better to focus more on the ones from the first movie (who everybody would remember) and slowly introduce new ones.
Some scenes were poorly edited and things not explained well. Sam's sudden cast appearance (it's painfully obvious that one second it's not there and the next it is). The lack of Bumblebee and the twins interacting with Jetfire despite being right in front of him. Giving some of them accents (Jetfire being an SR-71 is British somehow?) Prime's last line to the Fallen was also extremely corny, playing off both the cartoon movie's famous line and the first movie's reuse of it (One shall stand and one shall fall) "I shall stand and you shall fall".
While I had read the reviews before going into the movie I had kept my hopes up it was just reviewers being reviewers, however after having seen it I have to say I agree with almost all of their conclusions. As well as the fact the movie basically ends the same way as the first setting up the third movie. Maybe for that one they will hire writers that know what they are doing.
The Megatron/Fallen/Starscream interactions were pretty bad at times. Could the dialogue have stolen any more from Star Wars? Never mind when the Primes appear to Sam and tell him its his destiny to reanimate Prime. I was pretty disgusted by the connections at points.
The fight scenes at times were ok, but for the most part they were blurry and hard to follow. You never got a sense of who was who during the action. The Decepticons towards the end ended up all looking alike and you didn't really care what happened to them since they only appear for a minute or two then are killed/gone. You were never able to get a good understanding of the transfomers (scale/looks/etc) because of the way the fights are shown.
The surviving Decepticons from the first movie are hardly addressed. Instead we are bombarded with all these new ones that you will never care about because no time is spent in introducing them. The same goes with the Autobots. There are a few new ones but you never find out anything about them. The "twins" however are an abomination. Spewing jive talk, one having a gold tooth, at one point calling a character a "pussy" seem outside good taste and what you'd might expect from an Autobot.
The plot element of killing Prime was stupid and failed to produce the effect they were seeking. In the original movie (cartoon) when Prime dies I remember being devastated. This time, it didn't matter because you could tell that he would be back on his feet by the end of the movie.
The human characters had moments (Megan Fox interacting with her little Decepticon at first the humping leg part was awful), mostly in the first half of the film. The second half was just a tragedy of epic proportions for everyone involved.
The movie lacked suspense because of the final half. 90% of that footage should have been on the cutting room floor. Instead of adding 40 some odd transformers it would have been better to focus more on the ones from the first movie (who everybody would remember) and slowly introduce new ones.
Some scenes were poorly edited and things not explained well. Sam's sudden cast appearance (it's painfully obvious that one second it's not there and the next it is). The lack of Bumblebee and the twins interacting with Jetfire despite being right in front of him. Giving some of them accents (Jetfire being an SR-71 is British somehow?) Prime's last line to the Fallen was also extremely corny, playing off both the cartoon movie's famous line and the first movie's reuse of it (One shall stand and one shall fall) "I shall stand and you shall fall".
While I had read the reviews before going into the movie I had kept my hopes up it was just reviewers being reviewers, however after having seen it I have to say I agree with almost all of their conclusions. As well as the fact the movie basically ends the same way as the first setting up the third movie. Maybe for that one they will hire writers that know what they are doing.