There is something seriously wrong with a world where Transformers 2 exists. Worse, where a film so monumentally misplaced manages to draw in 500 million dollars.
Who is watching this film and enjoying it so much they encourage their friends to do the same? Who is it that doesn't find the combination of soft-core porn and pre-teen comedy to be creepily unsettling?
This is is a film which spends half its time ogling semi-naked teenage girls, bent over motorbikes and hitching up their skirts, and half its time attempting to be funny, with silly little robots speaking in quirky little voices, reminscent of Small Soldiers or Gremlins. It's like a freakish episode of Bagpuss, where Professor Yaffle gets a job in a lapdancing club.
Throughout the movie, we are presented with large-scale scenes of mayhem and fighting robots, which are supposed to be impressive but which are so visually complex that it's all but impossible to see what's going on. The robots don't appear to have physical substance, and there is so little emotional connection that it really doesn't matter how many buildings are blown up, or how many aircraft carriers are sunk. It all means nothing.
But then, what do you expect from a toy advert?
Mr P's rating: 3/10
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