It’s just too blatant to be deemed anything but obvious and in poor taste. What were the filmmakers thinking? The ‘it’s just a movie’ defense doesn’t fly on this one, folks whereas George Lucas had wiggle room to defend himself with Jar Jar Binks, there is none here for Bay and company to fall back on. In my review, I called Mudflap and Skids “the Amos ‘n’ Andy of the Autobots and two of the most offensive characters in recent cinematic history. In the film, the ‘bots have gold teeth, talk about “popping a cap in ass,” and say they don’t read. Who’s idea was “the twins”? I can’t say it better than this excerpt from an article on IGN: How do you tell him and Starscream apart in the middle of robot combat when you only see them on screen for mere seconds at a time. (Fortunately he did briefly in the sequel) That’d make more sense, but ANOTHER jet? He’s got no color either. Megatron: OK…WTF?!?! These two things have nothing in common!! It looks like they mashed up tin foil and said, “Alright, good enough.” He doesn’t look like Megatron, he doesn’t sound like Megatron…and he’s gonna turn into a jet-like space-shippy thing? I understand not doing the gun, but at least in some forms they had Megatron turn into a tank. No high-pitched annoying voice? But that’s what makes Starscream the whiny bitch he is! I’m getting a little aggravated now… I can’t see them putting in another one of those. I hope they don’t do that with any of the other robots or it’s gonna be tough to pick him out. Starscream: Hmmmm…he’s just all metal…no distinguishing color. Wait, he’s not gonna be a VW Bug? That’s where his name comes from!! I don’t know about this… He’s gonna have the same voice from the cartoon too? Well then I’m sold!! Let’s move on…īumblebee: He’s still pretty much metal and yellow. The flames are a bit unnecessary, but OK, they got most of it. The classic red and blue, the iconic helmet. Optimus Prime: He’s pretty much all there. In the first Transformers movie, I accepted some things and let others slide because it wasn’t TOO horrible. While I would have liked to see more iconic costumes in the X-Men movies, I understood why they went the direction they did. I’ll be the first person to defend certain decisions when it comes to redesigning characters from the source material. This was the result of two things, horrible editing that had jump cuts lasting all of a second, and… Half the time you couldn’t tell which robot was doing what to what other robot. It was just “Argh…smash two robots together.” And really, it kinda looked like that over and over again. The battles at the beginning of the film are just as meaningful as the battles at the end. Who taught Michael Bay pacing? Clearly nobody did. Why did this movie have to be 2 1/2 hours long? I have no clue. Let me explain to you all the mistakes that Transformers made this time around. I mean, look…the Constructicons actually make Devastator in this one!! How awesome is that? Well…that’s where the awesomeness stops. After all the previews and the fact that I actually liked the first, I was very excited to see what would be done with the follow up. Last Thursday I went to go see the sequel to Transformers. If you're into viral campaigns, you might want to take a look.Read my review of one of the year's worst movies, if not one of the worst movies I've ever seen. While I usually don't care about viral stuff, I think the angle they're taking with this one is kind of cool. On top of that one, has also launched and according to, the site is run by Jon Turturro's character in the movie. If you saw the recent trailer, the back of Shia's shirt has a website url on it and it's for an actual site. And I can't wait.Īnd one last thing, while movie studios have been embracing the online world with more and more viral campaigns, I think "Revenge of the Fallen" is going to be the first one that uses the movie to help promote the campaign. While this summer has been filled with great movies, the end of June brings up "Transformers Revenge of the Fallen". And what better franchise is there than giant f*cking robots punching each other. Mo matter what you think of the guy, he knows how to film action. I thought the first "Transformers" movie was incredible, and I think Michael Bay was born to helm these movies.
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