[iamzack]

It's kind of a shame the movie was intended for a younger audience. If they'd been willing to show the wounded, Black Hawk Down-style, we could've had a few really intense, almost Battletech-esque war scenes. As it was it felt just a bit too sterile, since the most common form of casualty was 'tossed about, implying death'.

What about when Optimus Prime (?) ripped that other robot's face in half?

[General Battuta]

For better or worse, we don't take damage to machines as viscerally as damage to meatbags.

[TESLA]

To be fair...there was a script?

Well you do have a point there!!!


Michael Bay director: Explosion, fight, fight, fight, explosion, plot line, explostion, action, fight, kiss scene, plot, explosion, explosion, explosion

The man is obsessed with stuff going Ka-Boom

[Snail]

A bit too much comic relief in places IMO.

[Demitri]

To be fair...there was a script?

The man is obsessed with stuff going Ka-Boom

For this type of film, is that necessarily a bad thing?

Seen it the day it came out. Took my nephew to see it on friday(was looking for an excuse to see it again ) and there was a ****ing power cut half way through!

[JGZinv]

there was a ****ing power cut half way through!

It was the US government! It's a conspiracy! We know the truth!

[NGTM-1R]

A bit too much comic relief in places IMO.

Micheal Bay is incapable of directing any scene with comedy in it, it seems. Somebody else must have been running the first movie, though. This one deteriorated badly.

[Snail]

It wasn't that bad. Good action sequences. And that's all I went to see.

[colecampbell666]

That's all anyone watching Transformers goes to see.

[StarSlayer]

Just saw it at IMAX.  The best way I could put it was the film is so freaking awesome that all its failings are just swamped in eyegasm.  All the parts of my brain that should have been wondering "wtf is going with this story?!" where shut down as all synapses and mental power was devoted to the parts of my brain responsible for interpretting outside stimuli were assaulted by a pure visual and auditory blitzkrieg.  Even an hour later as I start to wonder about all the plot holes and other issues the cave man side of my brain konks me brutally over the head screaming "HOW AWESOME WAS THE FIGHT IN THE FOREST!?"


The only thing I wish is they kept the old curmudgeon SR-71 around, though to be honest with the inconsistancy of death in this film, I probably don't have to worry about it much.

[Scotty]

So, based on the comments, this film could be considered a personification (er... movie-ification?) of The Rule of Cool

[TESLA]

A bit too much comic relief in places IMO.

You would think so.... 
Micheal Bay is incapable of directing any scene with comedy in it, it seems. Somebody else must have been running the first movie, though. This one deteriorated badly.

Well, As the only Irishman here (as far as i know)(In the free Republic)  i thought the line about how "you get to the end of the rainbow, and guess what!! the leprechauns boobytrapped it!!"  was very funny     

[colecampbell666]

There are quite a few drunkards Irishmen on HLP. ssmit, Maeg...

Me mam's name was Patty and she went and married Donovan O'Furniture so now she's Patty O'Furniture.

[ssmit132]

There are quite a few drunkards Irishmen on HLP. ssmit, Maeg...

Where have I said that I'm Irish?

[TESLA]

There are quite a few drunkards Irishmen on HLP. ssmit, Maeg...

Me mam's name was Patty and she went and married Donovan O'Furniture so now she's Patty O'Furniture.

Well **** you. There fighting words now,

[Scotty]

Guys, take it to PM or mods

[Kosh]

Yeah but you can only blame the script for that.

Given that it was the first movie it was better the way they did it (slow intro of the bad guys).

[colecampbell666]

There are quite a few drunkards Irishmen on HLP. ssmit, Maeg...

Where have I said that I'm Irish?

Must've been someone else.

There are quite a few drunkards Irishmen on HLP. ssmit, Maeg...

Me mam's name was Patty and she went and married Donovan O'Furniture so now she's Patty O'Furniture.

Well **** you. There fighting words now,

Apparently you haven't met my Irish family. Christ, I know that all Irishmen are not alcoholics, how do you think I like it when I get called igloo-boy?

[FSW]

This film was amazing. I'd imagine that your mileage is dependent on how familiar you are with the Transformers franchise, but nobody can be unimpressed by the mind-blowing action scenes.

Films are merely a medium through which various qualitatively different experiences can be conveyed. Transformers was never meant to have a profound, coherent story; it gives us mostly what we went to see, yet critics score it on the same one-dimensional scale as every other film. That said, the story didn't have to be this stupid, and every single non-battle scene was cringe-worthy to the point where I suspect that the cheese factor was deliberate. I suppose some filler is needed to break up the fights.

[Sololop]

I've seen it in a total, probably around 4 times. Working at a theater has its benefits.

However, I am disappointed how they always say "Roll Out" and rarely "Transform" and never once said "Maximize" or "Terrorize."

When the tiger Decepticon (Not a huge TRANS fan, don't know names 100%) got its spine ripped out though, ...oooh that was great.
Also, compared to the first once, Optimus Prime totally owned ass. I mean, in the first one, Megatron could take him. In this one, Megatron gets whooped. He loses an arm, for god sakes. Thats brutal.
Also disappointed how Devestator, the certainly biggest, and one of the meanest Decepticons, gets destroyed so quickly.