| Movie Review: Transformers
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On Friday, my friends and I went to see Transformers 2. The first one was ok, maybe its because I was a big fan as a child and it was nothing but a glamorized rehashed version of it. The second was no different. Yeah, I said it.
If you haven't guessed it by now, I don't give a flying hairy monkey's ass about what popular opinion is about. I don't care if I have to stand out on this limb by myself and say that this movie was just OK too.
Maybe I'm a person of substance and not easily fooled with gimmicks (well, not via advertisements when shopping, lol) and all those special effects. If you took away all of that, it was just an underdeveloped rushed movie. Seriously. Maybe I just pay too much attention and should just admire the special effects, but too bad this is one of my favorite cartoons of my childhood. 
I felt the plot was rushed through. It gave almost no time to develop any of the characters. You couldn't really connect with any of them. (besides Bumble Bee and Optimus Prime) The twins gave good comic relief those were a little racist. I guess because they killed off Jazz in the first one so they needed to fill a "quota." lol.
Second, the plot holes. Why the heck was Optimus all by himself saving Sam? Where was Bumble Bee and the rest of the team? Why can that sliver resurrect Jetfire but not Optimus Prime? Why are they always fighting in the desert? Why does Optimus remove his Jetfire pack (I'd keep it if I was him!, lol)? Rail gun? Really?
Another thing, I'm not a fan of the redesign of the Transformers. I mean, we don't have to go original, just spice it up a little. Instead, its over done. So much to the point you can't tell what the heck is going on in half the fight scenes. When they transform, they all look like a mess of silver wires with a little highlight of the color car they were. When they fight hand to hand, it just looks like a mess with peices flying everywhere and you wonder who hurt who! And it takes them like twenty seconds to transform from car to robot and its all visual because I'll be dammed if a toy can transform like that.
But like I said, its an ok movie. Not really going to go with the crowd and say "Oh I loved it". No. I don't think so. Maybe I should be a writer for Transformers 3. Can you say Dinobots! Snarl FTW! 
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