It’s the biggest blockbuster of the summer, and everyone is talking, thinking, blogging about it. So here are my thoughts on this summer’s most explosive film.
Transformers 2, for me, started out very promising. Two years after the original Sam is going off to college, Mikaela is working in her dad’s shop and the autobots are teamed up with the US army hunting the remains of autobots left here on earth. However as the movie progresses the story becomes lost in battle scene after battle scene. I started to wonder what was going on and why all of these giant robots were fighting. While the first Transformers has the luxury of setting up back story on the autobots and develop main characters (both robot and human) there was still more of a story to fallow that kept you plugged into the movie. While watching Transformers 2, the reason I kept watching was to see when the story was really going take off. I felt that the basic plot was masked by big explosions and forced jokes. I really wanted to see characters interact with each other more. My two favorite scenes were when Sam goes to meet with Optimums Prime and Prime asks for Sam’s help, and when Sam and Bumblebee have an all to short of talk around a camp fire while they are in hiding.
Not to say that I did not enjoy the movie, because I did. I just think that it was lost by fireworks and clanging metal. I am looking forward to seeing it again, and hopfully getting more out of it a second time around. Why would I see it again, if I did not think it was the greatest movie of all time? Well I mean come on, who does not enjoy robot battles? Overall thoughts: 3.7 stars out of 5.
