This past weekend I had the mispleasure of seeing the newly released movie
Transformers 2. Even though I hadn't seen the first
Transformers movie I entered the theater with an open mind. However, after the first 10 minutes of the movie went by I was already planning my escape. Transformers 2 is an over-hyped, non-sensical,and drawn out movie going experience.
Megan Fox is obviously beautiful. She's so pretty it hurts. In fact, categorizing Megan Fox's beauty as merely "Pretty" might even be an insult. So now that Megan Fox's hotness has been acknowledged we can now bash her acting skills or lack there of.
Megan Fox has two facial expressions in
Transformers 2. First, she has the "sexy pout" and second, she has the "distressed pout". Every time she had a speaking part I felt like a stage hand was poking her with a stick, and having her read off of cue card. It was quite amusing to watch Shia Labeouf sweating, and reacting to the other actors in the scene as Megan Fox sat there with a blank pouty expression on her face.
Beside having a wax dummy for a leading lady
Transformers 2 has lame attempts at making the audience laugh throughout the movie. In one scene Sam's (Shia Labeouf) mother eats a marijuana brownie by "mistake", and begins running around jumping on strangers and flailing her arms . This is just one of the many far fetched (even for a movie with talking robots) situations in
Transformers 2 which causes the audience to roll their eyes.
Another ridiculous part of the movie is when Sam's dad tells him he should dump his girlfriend (Megan Fox) because there will be other girls in college. This scenario is not even in the realm of believability. No college kid will ever do better than Megan Fox, ever. To act as if something better could come along is pure insanity. In real life, Sam's dad would tell him to get his girlfriend(If she was Megan Fox) pregnant so that he could trap her in a relationship forever.
Then add scenes in which giant transformers beat each other up for extended periods of time, a weak convulted plot line, and you have
Transformers 2.
The movie is about as suspenseful as a trip to your dentist. And depending how well you take care of your teeth getting your teeth cleaned is quite possibly a more "nail biting" experience than watching
Transformers 2.
