went out to watch transformers 2 with family yesterday
awesome movie! 6/5 stars, if you want to ignore the intelligence quotient (or lack thereof) of the film. geez, what is it with american feel-good movies and their penchant for showing chaos and panic in about every country in the world -but their own? china must have got blasted into smithereens in about a 100 films already. and this time france and egypt also gets a piece of the armageddon action. Its a good form of propaganda and publicity for the us military; while north korea tries to demonstrate their supremacy by nuclear missile 'tests', they're doing the same thing - by media forms. it was kinda droll the way they hero-worshipped themselves at times...though no one can admit that they found the autobots uncool. the autobots are the EPITOME of coolness.

ok, ill get it done with my beef about the movie first, and then i can rant about everything else that was good.
1. when optimus prime received his spare parts from the old decepticon, he didnt even say thank you, even though the old decepticon died for him. goodness, if ever there was a time for a memorable quote from the movie, that was it. but nope, no word of gratitude for his fallen comrade. heck it if there was a war going on and armageddon was on the brink, he should still have said thanks.
2. i dont get the plot. seriously i dont. apparently the matrix-key had to be "earned". in that case the old primes shouldnt have had to worry about the fallen trying to get at the key, right? and if the fallen didnt deserve it, why would the key have worked for him after he stole it from optimus prime in the end? serious inconsistencies. oh and i thought the key was supposed to unlock the machine that could bring optimus back to life, not the key itself revive him. so there was a big question mark at that point.
3. what happened to the little decepticon in the end? disappeared into thin air apparently.
4.what did the snipers have to keep shooting at the decepticons for? 30whole minutes of sniping, when a bazooka's apparently the minimum necessary to destroy a decepticon. the dudes fire cannonballs with their hands, for goodness's sake.
5.megan fox ran 9 miles of sandy dunes in high heeled boots. yeah right. at least give her some sneakers.
6.when people get blasted off a two storey building, chances are that they should rightly DIE. not say ouch..but let's keep moving.
7. they broke into a museum. all they had to do was taser two security guards.
8.humans treat the autobots like weapons they can talk to. its like there is camaderie, but not so much that the humans tell the autobots everything that is going on with them. its like, ok autobots, go to this location and destroy everything you see. we dont have to tell you anything, but we have faith you'll do the job perfectly anyway.
9. why do aliens such as decepticons speak ENGLISH? is that the interuniversal language too?
10. how did optimus prime know where the decepticons captured sam to?speaking of which, when a car is vertically-dropped from a moving helicopter, and even if the air bags are activated, the high chances are everyone in the car will die, cos the force of the air bags plus the impulse of hitting the ground against inertia will break their necks. they're not supposed to straggle out of the car unscathed.

ok, now the good parts. THE EFFECTS WERE AWESOME. i can see why some people were hating it; there was a lot of explosions and gunfire and blasting apart of things. but it was amazing, for most part. for one, the autobots are so fantastically awesome! there's something desperately cool about a random car or beaten-up lorry suddenly turning into an indestructible force of alien goodness in a series of cool-sounding clings and clangs. maybe its the underdog theory in place :). and the soundtracks certainly helped. its the kind of thing you would watch superman to, but its got the effect. that screen was leaking coolness onto its audience. hahax^^
OPTIMUS PRIME IS SO FREAKINGLY COOL. not in the sense that im a fan, but so freakingly cool nontheless. so are all the other autobots. seeing a whole bunch of cars cruise down the freeway with a lorry in the front is ULTRA COOL. bumblebee is freakingly cool as well. how does a car get so cute yet so lethal at the same time? beats me. if there was one word to sum up the movie, its COOL.

the comedy parts were fun as well. somehow, comedy in a comedy isnt funny, but comedy in any other genre of movie is. weird.

all in all, glad that we went :D
going to learn how to play the soundtrack :)