More than meets the eye?

Last night I ventured out to see the new Transformers movie and I have to say it is worth a look if you follow into a few of the following categories.

 

1. You watched the cartoons and played with the toys in the mid 80s.
2. You are actually a fan of Michael Bay movies (Armageddon, Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor)
3. You have seen all the better movies out this summer.

 

That might be a little harsh for a movie I enjoyed but the truth is that even though I enjoyed it, I didn’t love it and I really don’t see a lot of people liking the movie. It was completely average. The story was as shallow as the ones from the cartoons, the acting was, well it wasn’t bad enough to distract from the non-stop action. And in typical Michael Bay fashion even though the action was moving a mile a minute it still felt slow at times. It was long, and though they tried to fill up some of the non-action moments with humor there were still so many times when I was bored waiting for the next fight. If I had to rate the movie it would be a 2.5/5, completely average and, for me at least, it was completely typical of the recent super hero movies (i.e. X Men, Spiderman and the like) the first one always seems to be slow and usually the sequel will be better. So, while I did not love this movie I can not wait for the speculation on Transformers 2. I can already hear all the scoops popping up on Rotten Tomatoes. Will we see Grimlock? Energon cubes? Soundwave? Clearly, there are a lot of cool storylines and given the end of the movie a lot of options for what comes next.