I looked at the first two pages on cafe society and nothing.
The first CGI movie I regret to say that I never bothered to see in the theater, cause ya know its kids stuff. So later in the summer, when the DVD came out, it blew me away and made me regret not seeing it on the big screen.
Well, the sequel is out next week and I for one will probably see it opening night.
Anyone else gonna see it , without hiding behind the kids 
Declan
I’ll be seeing it. I just hope there’s less annoying “comedy” than in the last one.
Crap.
I’m still mystified at all the people loving the first movie. I mean, there’s no account for taste, I know, but the whole movie was an unending torrent of idiocy. Surely everyone in the world should see that, shouldn’t they?
So, in short: no.
Well I’ve seen Transformers 2 and it is a terrible film
Basically he has taken everything people criticised about the first film and dialed it up to 11 (and I quite liked the first film).
However if you really enjoyed the confusing camera work, irrelevant plotlines, nasty stereotypes, right wing politics (There are some very unsubtle shots at Obama), military fetishism, bodily function gags, irritating comic relief characters, female characters who don’t really have any function other than to look decorative, and slow motion explosions taken beyond the point of absurdity then Revenge of the Fallen is the movie for you.
It’s watchable, sort of, in that some of the action scenes are still well executed and some of the dialogue is still reasonably well written, and let’s face it, no one was expecting Shakespeare, but it has a lot of disappointing action and juvenile none-humour as well. It’s also far, far too long, and probably one of the worst edited and least cohesive films I’ve seen for a long time.
Also, all those extra robots he’s been promising, they all have a few lines of dialogue total or in some cases a few frames worth of appearance (they really give you the impression of just being in to sell more toys) and some of the existing characters are pretty much ignored. The only new characters who really get any significant screen time are Jetfire (voice badly miscast), Ravage (yay) and the “twins” and if you are anything like me you will really wish the last two didn’t, Michael Bay apparently seems to believe that the only real problem with Jar Jar Binks is that there wasn’t two of him!
Having read some reviews from the UK, I’d like to change my answer.
What obnoxious racial stereotype do the “twins” show?
Think the hacker brothers scene from the first film, some aspects of the design (goofy gold teeth), lots of “I’m going to bust a cap in you” dialogue. Honestly I’m not really familiar enough with black/rapper stereotypes in the US to make too much judgement on the twins in that sense (mostly I just found them super annoying) but most of the stuff involving black or foreign human characters is probably going to piss someone off (especially the midget Egyptian border guard). I’m always a little wary about looking for excuses to cry racism on the basis of a handful of characters, and I was willing to give the first film the benefit of the doubt, but there is certainly more of the same stuff that upset people in number one on display here.
A lot of the humor was on the “Meet the spartans” level and some of it was quite crude and explicit for a film that lots of kids are going to see, think small robots humping people’s legs, people in partial states of undress being tasered and falling on top of each other for “comic” effect, etc.
Like I said, it’s not a total failure in the big dumb summer movie sense. And kids will probably enjoy the hell out of it provided you are happy with exposing them to some of the “humour”. It’s just that it very definitely emphasised the aspects of the first film I disliked for the second outing and ignored a lot of the stuff that I liked.
The only thing i liked about the first movie was the U.S. army dudes actually being semi effective against the decepticons, not the usual “our weapons are useless against them, only the plucky teenager with his mcguffin can save us now!” bs.
I went to the first one, expecting a big pile o crap and got a great blockbuster experience. Yeah, I must’ve been on something cause I really (I mean REALLY) enjoyed it, and have watched it on DVD a couple of times after that.
So me and my siblings have already booked our tickets for the premiere here this week. And I’m not expecting much of anything, except cool explosions and a very hawt Megan Fox.
Sounds good for me. Honestly, they could just cut out all the dialogue of the first movie, and I would still love it. Honestly, it’s Transformers. It’s a tour hour long toy commercial, which is exactly what it should be. I bet good money that I’ll love it.
But I’m naturally predisposed to enjoy movies.
If it was just an hour long toy commercial, I’d agree. I love giant stompy robots, and a movie about giant stompy robots at war with other giant stompy robots would get two thumbs up from me. I only hate Bay and his minions because they defile such an inherently entertaining concept with their degenerate idea of comedy.
Like I said, I quite liked the first film, it was a perfectly serviceable action film which contained large amounts of giant robot’s fighting each other. I thought the sequel didn’t pull this off half as well.
Most of the fighting in this is actually done by the US military who (not entirely unrealistically) seem to do just as well as the actual autobots (apart from, amusingly enough, the films elite anti-transformer task force who do badly mainly because their tactics seem to be based around fighting decepticons with infantry and low flying helicopters).
I’ve already stated why I didn’t care much for the humour parts of the film this time around, but I’d have been willing to forgive a lot if the action sequences were pulled off as well as those in the first movie and IMHO most of them weren’t. There was more action, and more shots of the transformers themselves but the editing and direction of the fight scenes was distinctly subpar, with the cgi often less well integrated with background. Also I wasn’t kidding about the slow motion shots, they really do pass through cliche to parody this time.
Also while it seem slightly silly to complain about characterisation in a transformers movie I was actually a little unhappy about the start of the film which sees Optimus Prime cold bloodedly executing a wounded and helpless decepticon without any sign of conflict. Likewise Megatron who seemed to be an unstoppable juggernaut of destruction in the first film needs a couple of buddies with him to take on Prime in the middle of the film, and later on gets his ass kicked by a couple of tanks
Bottom line, I like the first film, I went into the theatre expecting to like this one, I didn’t, your mileage may vary.
I am beyond excited to see this one because I freakin’ LOVE the first one. I thought it was written well enough for a summer action movie, but the action and fighting won me over 10-fold.
I am seeing it next monday, in IMAX (!!!) and I fully expect to love this movie as well.
I haven’t seen the movie but he DID get killed in the first movie and ripped into chunks, maybe hes not the same badass he used to be.
I saw it last night. At some point the audience gave up even pretending it was a good movie, and started laughing. Normally I don’t love audience participation, but it was absolutely the best way to deal with ‘the Matrix of Leadership is not made: it is earned’, a line which bought the house down. When the credits rolled, we applauded.
I took my father and one of my brothers to the first one, but I’ll be passing on this. I do think “Revenge of the Fallen” is probably the worst movie title/subtitle ever.
I need to be three miles from here! I need to be there FAST or the world is DOOMED! I will now leave three perfectly functional cars/KILLER ROBOTS behind, and WALK all the way there!
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Yeah.
More robot = good.
The characterisation of the twins, though, was unfortunate.
lip trembles But…but, I liked the first one SO much. Maybe I will enjoy it more now that y’all have lowered my expectations.
I must admit though, the previews have pissed me off. What’s with the “Megatron wants what’s in my mind!” bullshit? That’s suck a craptastical plot device. I mean, seriously, didn’t we cover Sam’s continued involvement with the Autobots in the last flick? Bumblebee says in his oh-so stupid accent that he wants to stay with the boy. The boy doesn’t need to have visions and freak out, he can be knocking about because his car/friend is embroiled in a war and who leaves there car/friend high and dry in the middle of a war?
If your characters’ lives are weird over and above the fact that they hang out with giant disguised alien robots - FAIL
I liked the humans in the first one well enough but I would cheerfully watch a movie all about transformers. If the humans’ only function was to flee in terror occasionally, that would be fine. Just give me destruction, explosions, and GIANT ROBOTS FIGHTING!
good god Hampsire, I almost lost my coffee man.
I watched it yesterday and actually liked it quite a bit. It had KABLOOMS, cool robots and really hot babes.
Which is exactly why I liked the first one so much.
