thecrackedjack2

Man, are any of these summer movies going to live up to expectations? Last year we had Hulk, Iron Man, Dark Knight, etc hitting the mark and now all these seem to to missing it. Disappointing indeed.

Still, look forward to seeing it though.

Solid Snake

There's always Inglourious Basterds, no?

jeffbase34

I even enjoyed Hancock last year, but this summer, after Star Trek, just nothing. Year 1 is more like January Feb movie, not a tentpole summer flick! Where are the big special effects movies this summer?? Marvel really dropped the ball this year.

Artman

I didn't see it in theaters but watched the first ten min or so... loved it! I hope the rest of it is like that...

Dr Mabuse

spizz

Just saw it and was Dissapointed. Not crap but an average sequel. After loving the 1st one I was so looking forward to this.

Micheal Bay sometimes less is more. Just to much thrown in on this one. Didn't care about the human characters at all. John Tutturo (sp?) was one of the only bright spots. And with the action it was hard to keep track of who was who with the shaky cam and close ups, especially since most of the robots weren't properly introduced. The 1st one also had a better story to. Oh well, it is what it is.

Lara Means

The Incredible Hulk was pure garbage.

thecrackedjack2

I and RT (A respectable 66%, not bad for a summer popcorn flick) would disagree. But, that's the wonderful thing about opinions.

outcastja

Ebert's one star review

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/906239997

Zen Peckinpah

A couple of review blurbs on RT that had me

"A 150-minute simulation of life in a garbage disposal." Matt Pais, Metromix.com

"It’s like being hit over the head repeatedly with a very expensive, very loud train set. After two and a half hours in this bludgeoning company, you’re begging Bay to put away the boys’ toys and make a rom-com." Ed Potton, The Times

Anubis2005X

I don't always agree with Roger Ebert, but I enjoyed that review...

hapgilmore

Can anyone confirm if this is "old school" Michael Bay (i.e. Armageddon, Bad Boys 2: nonstop quick cuts and frenetic editing), or "new school" (i.e. The Island, Transformers 1: kinda like old Bay but the cuts aren't as fast and the editing a little slower)?

I prefer old school!

iggystar

Ain't It Cool is the perfect review. I agree with each and every word.

I like popcorn flicks, with expolsions, heck I've been known to enjoy a Michael Bay film or two, but my main gripe, just like my complaint about the first is the Transformer design. You can hardly tell what's happening with all of the bits of whirring metal, it just looks like large pieces of scrap rolling on top of each other. At least give me that a cleaner design...so I can enjoy the fight scenes, so I can see the individual strengths of each.

I saw this movie free, from a press pass and it was just explosions, metal and nothing else. I could have cared less if each and every character died, I don't know if I've ever been so emotionally disconnected from a movie. There were several Jar-Jar annoying characters and it seemed like the dialogue was written for, who? I don't know. There were so many sexual references that just weren't funny. I could forgive them if they made me laugh, but I didn't, not once.

Basically, there's NO way I'm going to take my daughter to see this, I don't care how much she loves Shia, I will not sit through it again.

Draven

That's big one of my biggest problems with the series. The Transformers already HAVE relatively clean designs. They just need to update them to look a little more realistic and I think it would have been great. Instead it literally looks like they blew up each car, assembled the pieces to look vaguely humanoid and then created the designs from that.

Very disappointing.

iggystar

Yes, I totally agree! The design is completely overdone and cluttered. You could always tell the different Transformers apart in the series, you could see that one started out as a truck and once transformed you could still see truck-like attributes. Now they all look like scrap metal heaps.

My friend went to the bathroom and came back and was like, "Um, what Transformer is that?" I'd been sitting there and couldn't tell her. What a mess.

OldBoy

really? i thought he was one of the negatives from the first. was he better or more toned-down than the previous?

woofman

I saw this last night and I found it to be quite an entertaining summer action flick. Yes it did have some faults as mentioned in previous posts, and a scene or two where they really laid on the cheese, but I didn't go into it expecting Silence of the Lambs. The audience really got into it, cheering and clapping several times throughout the movie, and even more so at the end. Special effects and sets were larger than life and completely over the top, I had to just laugh and enjoy it for what it was.

Superboy

I thought this was a reviews thread.

I thought it had many of the same problems as the first movie, but also addressed many of the problems of the first movie.

The movie flows better.

There's less plot holes. Although they're still there... who cares.

Still...

RocShemp

A much better question is

Superboy

Even better...

RocShemp

Actually that one I explained elsewhere.

slop101

So you cared about the characters?

RocShemp

Have we already forgotten the graph?

The O

Say no to Decepticon balls.

BJacks

This was one of the worst films I've seen this decade. A boring, bloated mess. And I'm the most un-PC guy on the planet but even I was shocked by the blatant racism. Gold teeth-adorned, streettalk-slinging, ape-looking, weed-smoking illiterate robots? Jesus.