Joseph Brower

.. that really sucked.  I took my family to see the new transformers movie.  I didn’t have high expectations for it, since I had heard that it was essentially a hollow movie built to get a bit more money from the success of the first film (which I liked.)  I didn’t expect it to be that bad.  If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t. If you plan on seeing it anyway, my rant will contain spoilers, (what little can be spoiled) so you may want to stop reading if you are worried about me somehow spoiling the movie.

The movie starts out with the autobots hunting the decepticons.  That’s all nice fine and dandy, and even set up the film fairly well.  The special effects were amazing.  We get introduced to two new characters, autobot twins.  They seem to be there for comedic releif (which we didn’t need) and throughout the entire movie they used foul language and offered “comedic relief.”  Honestly, I didn’t find them beating up on eachother, insulting eachother and other characters, or generally not helping, to be of comedic relief.  I just found it annoying.  Also, the movie became incredibly predictable.  There is a decepticon that is after the main character, and you know about 2 seconds after seeing her what is going on.  Also, Sam’s parents become idiots somehow and their “comedy” is spread throughout the film.  It isn’t even mature comedy that makes you think, it’s just stupid humor that I would expect a 13 year old to think is hilarious.  I could go on and on.  The only “good” thing about the film is the special effects, except that half the time you can’t tell who is fighting who, who’s winning, what’s happening, but there is a lot of it, so it must be “good.”  I feel like the production team for the movie took Dumb and Dumber, Transformers 1, and National Treasure (Sam is following clues at one point to find the Matrix which can power up a device to eat the sun, that ends up being destroyed, but the robots that hid the matrix (which is the key to using it) didn’t even think about destroying it.  Isn’t that kind of a major hole?  I thought that the transformers were wise.  Anyways, maybe it was a bit too much Dumb and Dumber for my taste.  That’s my opinion.  I won’t be throwing any more money towards the movie beyond the 10 bucks I spent to go see it last night.