Just a heads up, this is hardly a review, moreso just my thoughts on the movie in an unorganized couple of paragraphs.
If you think about it, there wasn't much room for a good sequel plot after the first Transformers movie. The good guys win, the leader of the bad guys is at the bottom of an ocean abyss, Sam gets a super hot girlfriend, the good transformers have an alliance with the humans, and the thing fought over the whole movie is now destroyed. If you ask me, that's a pretty happy ending. One that doesn't merit a sequel... or does it?
In the extremely anticipated movie, Transformers 2, the continued "happy ending" plot that follows the first movie is, to no surprise, a total flop. A complete failure. Not only does it succeed a movie that was not intended for a sequel (or was, but director Micheal Bay just did a horrible job in anticipating it), but it has the most holes and unanswered questions than any other movie I can remember watching (or at least was paying attention to).
The plot just doesn't add up. All the sudden, the decepticons have the makings of their very own army?? Where were these guys in the first movie? Why weren't they there to aid them in finding the cube? There's no explanation to why that is. That's one huge problem in Transformer's plot.
Apart from random deceptacons dropping out of the sky from who knows what planet, there was another problem in the plot that struck me weird. If Sam had a piece of the cube, why couldn't he just touch Optimus Prime with it to bring him back to life? It worked with Megatron, and the cube shard obviously still had enough power if it awakened the entire Witwicky kitchen into a little army of culinary equipment. Practically the whole end of the movie was based on something that didn't even have to be done. That's two huge problems with the movie's plot (or at least a very large unexplained detail).
Other than having a terrible "plot", Transformers 2 also had an obscene amount of dirty humor, practically all of which wasn't even funny at all, just annoyingly inappropriate. I was very surprised at the amount of inappropriate humor in a movie that was solely advertised for it's special effects and action. If Micheal Bay focused on more plot, and less money and appeal, he could have maybe came up with something half decent.
Conclusion:
The new Transformers movie is nothing more than an attempt to make money through it's astounding special affect, intense fight scenes, and dirty humor. The only thing that was left out was a good plot.
I disliked T2: ROTF, too, but the problem for me wasn't the ridiculous plot--that I could handle, and I expected it since 1 had it in spades--but the obscene amounts of crude jokes, racist stereotypes, and, dare I say it, objectification of women. I mean, yes, I enjoy Megan Fox as much as any other guy, but this wasn't the kind of movie to put it in. Shameless exploitation of the kind Michael Bay puts in in this movie (the first of Ms. Fox in that bent-over pose, the constant slow-mo shots at the end of her running, etc) belongs in a movie that knows it's being exploitive, like Shoot'Em Up or Fast & the Furious. Here, with the unnatural melding of stupid humor by stupid characters while they're not being deathly serious about a plot that's not meant to be taken so seriously. There's gotta be a balance, there can't be non-stop comic relief, 'cause then you'd need relief from the comic relief and you've defeated your purpose. And it also doesn't help that your relief is coming from the most obvious and offensive racial stereotypes since Jar Jar Binks.
ReplyDeleteNow, I realize that I'm preaching to the choir, but your review of sorts has given me an opportunity to get some thoughts out before I write my own critique (so you'll be seeing some of these same sentences probably, heh). :P
Yeah I definitely know what your talking about. It was really the plot that got me, but the amount of other stupid content just made it all the more worse.
ReplyDeleteYeah, definitely. :P My review's almost up!
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