
Ok, it's been a couple of days since I've seen the film. I've given you some time to see it or not, and I've thought it over. It's time for my review of the film. If you haven't seen it yet, Optimus Prime dies. This is going to be spoiler heavy.
So we went to Shia LaBeouf and His Wacky Giant Robot Adventures Part 2 at the 12:01 Tuesday showing. I will say this for the film, the theater that we went to had three different screenings of the film that night and all were sold out. Also, I call the film Shia LaBeouf and His Wacky Giant Robot Adventures Part 2, because like the first one, it's a bait and switch. They lure you in with a promise of a Transformers movie, but then it ends up being Sam Witwicky and his hot girlfriend, with Transformers as a side note.

Ok, this movie is huge. Sam is going to college and Megan Fox can't come with him because her dad is out of prison and she has to help run his custom bike shop or some shit. So Sam goes and his parents do some wacky fucking shit on campus. Honestly one of my favorite parts of this film was Sam's banter with both of his parents. Sure, his mom being high on pot brownies was a little strange in a movie that a lot of kids will see, but over all it was pretty funny. That's why I don't have kids. So I won't have to explain to them what pot brownies are after a movie.
So, while at college, Sam meets this new chick. Here's where the movie really starts to suck. This girl ends up being a Decepticon. Really? She looks all normal. Then she turns into a robot. WTFUCK? If Decepticons could look like people, don't you think more would. I mean, that would make it way easier for them to figure out our plans and shit. And a Transformer turns into a human? Or at least looks like a human? FUCK! They even make this thing about how Iornhide or one of them can tell that a Decepticon is nearby because he can smell them, but this robo-bitch actually rides in Bumblebee. He doesn't seem to notice anything strange. I hated that part of the film...

While all this is going on, you find out all of the Autobots, without Bumblebee, have joined forces with a secret branch of the US Government. They hunt down and destroy Decepticons around the world. While this is going on Decepticon Soundwave hooks into to some govt. satalite and starts intercepting messages. This is how the Decepticons find and resuscitate Megatron. Megatron Flies back to Cybertron to meet with The Fallen. Evidently he's Megatron's master. They talk about some thing buried on Earth that will turn our sun into Energon, and they're both going back to switch it on.
Ok, so then this whole plot goes on about how Transformers had been on the Earth a shit load of time ago and built the pyramids and such. Not really that original of an idea, but it lets them blow up a pyramid later, so I guess it works. The Decepticons are looking for Sam because he's the main character and somehow has gotten a bunch of Transformers knowledge in his brain because he touched a piece of the Cube of Life or whatever the fuck it was from the last movie. Remember how he held the whole fucking cube last movie? With no side effects to him? Well, in this one, he touches a shard of it, and gets a whole bunch of shit in his head, just like his crazy great grandpa did when he saw Megatron. Nice.
While defending Sam, in the coolest fight scene in the movie, Optimus Prime gets dead. Way to go Sam. It's your fault. So now The Fallen is looking for the Earth Sun Destructo Beam and the Autobots have no leader and still have to deal with Sam. I feel bad for them.
Eventually The Fallen and everyone else finds this Sun Killer Machine in a pyramid and Sam brings Optimus back to life. Not before he almost dies and goes to a Transformer heaven, where fallen Primes tell him how awesome he is and that they totally want to hang out after he saves Optimus. It's fucked up. Why would a human go to Transformer heaven? Yep. I don't know either.
You see, only a Prime can kill The Fallen. Not really sure why, other than that he was a prime. That's why they need Optimus back so much. But in the first movie, didn't Megatron pretty much kick the crap out of Optimus? But now, he's a prime and the only one who can stop a prime is a prime. Megatron is not a prime. None of this computes.
Optimus does come back and kick every ones ass. End of movie.

Now a lot of other stuff happens too, but come on. I'm not writing the book form of the film. But I can't leave out some of the most awful shit that I didn't bring up. Like how about Devastator's balls. Yep. You remember that big, awesome looking Decepticon from the trailers? The one that transforms from like 5 or 6 different construction machines into one huge awesome robot with a grinder/sucking mouth? How cool did that guy look? I know right. Well, guess what? He's got fucking testicles. Why? Why the fuck not. He's got a pair of wrecking balls hanging down between his legs. One character even refers to them as his testicles. Seriously, Michael Bay? Seriously?

Then there are Mudflap and Skids. Two Autobots that start out as this weird ice cream truck and then become some new kind of Chevy Mini's. They are, what can only be described as stereotypical urban kind of gang bangers. They talk kind of street, swear a lot , and are proud to be ignorant. They are a melange of racism. Great work Michael Bay. They both have faces like monkeys and one has a huge gold tooth. Fuck. Really? They are just weird.
Like I said at the start. The movie is huge. There are barely 5 minutes that go by without some epic battle or something blowing up. Most of it is actually pretty cool to watch. However the movie is about 45 minutes too long. You'll know what I mean when you see it. It's a cool concept, but man I don't know. I know Thom really liked it, and I didn't mind it. But I didn't love it. All these movies keep coming out that are huge and cool looking, I'm talking to you Wolverine, but when you're done with them, you don't really feel like anything. They looked cool and that was about it. Maybe that's the way things are trending these days. And if they are, I'll keep writing tepid reviews for movies that will make more than most nations in a year.
Michael Bay. Motherfucker.