So about three and a half hours ago I sat down in a fairly empty theater. The same theater that ruined my Order of the Phoenix midnight premier, but that's a different story. I sat down, surrounded by friends, already talking about whether or not the film would be good or not. Overall the critics haven't been so nice to this sequel, and in my opinion, their reviews have been too negative. From here on out, spoilers.
I am no expert on films, or film making, but I can tell you I have watched a fair amount of movies in my short life and I would like to think I know the good from the bad, and this was certainly not among the bad. It was not top notch either, but it was very good for what it was: an action, comedy, romance, did I mention action? movie. I am not against action movies, but they are not my favorite either. I prefer movies like The Godfather. Now, recently I have probably enjoyed too many action movies for my own good. These past few months have been Transformers, Iron Man, and now Transformers 2.
Ok, let's get down to the review. First of all, good movie overall. I saw problems with: pacing, comedic moments, some lines, and a big change from the tone of the first movie. Pacing, action didn't seem always well spaced out, then again now that I think about it, there was rarely a moment when no one was being chased. Comedic moments, the twins seemed highly unnecessary to me and were clearly only placed for comedic interests, also too much humping (two times with dogs, and one with robot) for a movie's own good. Some of the lines seemed a little phony, and some unnecessary and overall just not good. Probably the biggest problem for me was the fact that with the robots this movie seemed a lot different. In the first one they were a lot more serious, in this one they talked a lot more and were used for comedy.
Ok, on to the good parts. I wont list them out I will just start talking about the film. Storyline, much to some people's thoughts, TOTALLY EXISTS. This movie is based on the past, and people usually don't like that. People want the epilogue first and don't want to know about what happened before what is happening now. You at least can't base a whole movie on that. Flashbacks are ok, but you start traveling to different planets and try to explain for whats happening now, not ok. My point is it exists, and I enjoyed it. I like movies that explain what happened before. Like a prologue to Pirates of the Carribean would be greatly enjoyed. Moving on... the effects and the sound to go along with the effects was all top notch. It was all very crisp and clean, the sound effects had thuds and clings when they needed to an it all fit perfectly. The acting was good as well, the fact that he was going crazy was portrayed very well. The voice acting was also very good as well. All the voices fit the characters well. I especially liked the Black Bird transformer (I don't recall his name, very old Transformer), anyways it was all very good.
I was entertained the whole time, and my friend who was sitting next to me would tell you the same. There were a lot of lines that were timed just right that they cracked me up and some moments were just "That can't be good" moments were just perfect.
This film, as I said as I was walking out of the theater after all the credits were done, deserves a B.
General Movie Grade: B
Cinematography: B
Sounds/Music: A
Writing/Story: C
Acting: B
Entertainment Quality: B
Effects: A
Thanks for reading
~Jake
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