Transformers, A Movie in Disguise

After weeks and weeks of waiting, we finally made it to a screening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We wanted to wait until the fervor died down, but perhaps we overdid it a bit. But now I know why the film's made as much money as it has -- I forked over $23 for the two of us to see it. No popcorn, no candies. Just two movie tickets. (So in a bad economy, raise the movie prices so that people become pickier about what they see especially because of all the crap films the studios force upon the public and then wonder why ticket sales aren't at the level they expect to be.)

Rant over...sorry about that, but I feel the über high price may have contributed to my movie experience.

Or maybe it was just because the movie was bad. Sure the special effects were as good as with the first film, but that wasn't enough to save the film in my eyes. Caesar and I both groaned at the cheesy, overdramatic dialogue and even laughed quite a few times when we were probably not supposed to. Michael Bay went crazy with his fast-moving, encircling of the Transformers at every available moment so much so that I almost felt nauseous from motion sickness. (Or the bad dialogue.) Caesar thought the movie would have worked much better without the humans. Let the robots battle it out amongst each other -- like the TV show.

The film overflowed with inconsistencies -- such as just how did Mikaela make it past airport security with a robot locked in her suitcase, fly thousands (?) of miles to Sam's college in time to find him in bed with another woman? Or why did the Decpeticons kidnap Sam's parents and not use them as a bargaining chip, instead spitting them out in the middle of desert combat? And I couldn't wrap my head around Rainn Wilson as a college professor for whom every female co-ed had the hots. And what was the point of the character Leo? He should have been killed off as quickly as possible instead of dragging him through most of the film.

That's not to say the film didn't have its moments. When the Witwicky's kitchen appliances transform into robots and attack the family, that was well done. Or when Alice's face pixels away to reveal the Decepticon within -- cool effect. But it wasn't enough to make me enjoy the film.

And I really want that $23 and 2h30m of my life back.

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