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jin

I would rate the story (5/10)
The graphics would be around (8/10)

My suggestion: Watch this movie ONLY if you want to have a 2hr 30min of “mindless” entertainment. In other words watch it for the graphics, which I do not think is as good as the first movie for some reason.

Look at this
Wednesday box office of Transformers is the highest ever for any movie at $60 million in one day (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime…age=wed&…)
Thursday's box office showed that the collection dropped to $28 million (It's still the highest-grossing non-opening Thursday ever)
Regardless of the bad reviews this movie will make huge profits due to the belief that people have on this movie expecting it to be better than the first Transformers movie. Believe it or not, Transformers already got $200 million worldwide collection which covers its entire budget

After waiting an hour in the line-up to get the best seats for the IMAX show, I had very high expectations for the movie and unfortunately Transformers 2 has failed to meet my expectations even in the graphics field as I wasn't expecting a great story anyways. Before I say anything about the movie, I would like to tell you that the original Transformers movie is MUCH BETTER than this movie in ALL aspects (Yes including graphics). The only thing I think is better in Transformers 2 is the sound and that's all.

Graphics: One might think that since they spent $50 million more on this movie than the previous one, this is going to be much better. Well guess what, you are wrong, just like I was. I watched it in IMAX and if I didn't think the graphics are better. There were a lot of action scenes with the robots but seriously the graphics were not as good as I expected them to be. There are too many robots, 95% of the action is with the robots fighting with each other. All the transformation scenes and fights are shown in extreme closeup and so fast that I couldn't see shit (The closer the shot, the faster the movement and harder to see). I would've liked a full shot fights much better as I could see what's happening. There is minimal Damage in the city like in the last movie which I liked a lot. I wanted to see the fights happen in the city which would've been much better. The entire fight was in a friggin desert. You will be watching the desert scenes for over one hour which was a bit boring.

Story: I do not want to explain the pathetic story in detail because to be honest, most of it didn't even make sense to me. Many important things thats needs to be explained were ignored. There are SOOOOOO MANY unanswered questions in the movie. They do not explain anything clearly and give very little information on even the most important things. There is some humour in the movie but that's not enough to say that a story is good.

My brief understanding: The movie starts off in the 15000 B.C to tell us that the Transformers have existed on earth for ages. Then somehow Shia has a piece that has some writings in it and somehow all the information enters his brain. Then the Decepticons (bad robots) wants to kill Shia because they want the information from his brain. He escapes from them and while he is being protected, Optimus Prime was killed in the fight with the bad robots. Decepticons wants super powers and that is only possible from a machine that somehow ended up on the earth inside a pyramid. The ancient robots that built the machine strictly restricted all the robots from ever using it because they didn't want to earth to be destroyed and even had a war to protect it. If it wasn't meant to be used then why was it built in the first place. What's stupid here is that Shia has the map to the machine and some life giving key in his brain, but the decepticons end up at that place too without any map. They somehow know everything with the exact co-ordinates of where things are located, so I don't know why they need the information from Shia's brain. Anyhow, Shia gets the life giving key which turns into power when he touches it. He carries the powder until he gets blown up … he dies for a minute and enters heaven and talks to the dead good Prime robots and then he comes back alive. The powder suddenly turns into original shape, Shia brings the dead Optimus Prime back to life with that thing. Now Optimus goes and kills the bad Robots and prevents the machine from being started. They said that if the Machine is started the sun will die/burn out

At the end, two or three handicapped Decepticons are left alive and they run away so that Michael Bay can make a Transformers 3

Awesome movie… THere are some let downs, but as a whole…Optimus Prime beating the crap out of 3 Decepticons… dude… Fuck the oscar give me some more of this action…

Spielberg and Michael Bay can team up for a Third…i'll still be eager.

get over the reviews and watch it for what it is… not what it should be or could have been – and the noobs knocking Michael Bay…. i'd love to see your attempt at anything he's done…all talk – amateur keyboard warriors.

I ended up blogging a shitload for it instead.

http://www.norwegianmorningwood.com/2009/06/first-impressions-transormers-2.html

worth paying to go see in the theaters if you're a fan of either Transformers or ridiculous amounts of explosions… otherwise… probably wait for DVD

I’m not going to preach about being completely true or loyal to the story from the old series… but at least staying coherent with the plot you are making would be nice…

for an example of making an epic movie with a great plot… see The Dark Knight… nolan manages to put in the “WOW” moments, but keep the plot moving in a logical fashion – without having to jump around…

I don’t think it’s too much to ask to have some sort of reasonable plot… instead of just an excuse to blow up as much as possible and show a ton of jumpy, sweeping fight scenes that in the end leave the watcher more seasick than wowed…

Been two hours since I saw it and I still don’t know for sure if I liked it more than I hated it or viceversa. What I know is that the first one was better, though.