Big, Morphing Robots Part Two
Directed by Michael Bay
Reviewed by Ernest M. Whiteman III
If there is one crime against the Internet and YouTube, it is that they reduced the attention span of young, susceptible audiences to 10 minutes or less. Therefore most big summer movies are required to have huge, spectacle every 10 minutes or the audience will get bored with the movie. Michael Bay excels at this. So does Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
Never mind the stupidity of some of the situations, never mind the racism of the Twin Robots (Went over my 10-year-old’s head, she loved them, but I was cringing. Doesn’t mean Char is racist, just that she thinks better of people.), and forget the silly loops in plot (Why is Megatron back and suddenly an acolyte of a robot that neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons EVER stop to mention before now?), it was whiz-bang every 10 minutes, either with silly comedy, overblown melodrama, or big fucking robots bashing each other.
My 10-year-old Charlotte summed this up the best; after the movie ended and the lights came up, after laughing at the jokes and cheering the fights and covering her ears in the explosions, she turns to me and asks, summing up everything that every reviewer could ever put into words about this movie:
“Okay, now, what was all that about?”
Do not recommend.
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