That’s my two-word review, as requested by D when I came home from the movie on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
My biggest complaint (minor spoilers):<\/span> Did anyone else notice that the final shot was set in virtually the same location as the infamous “animal crackers” scene from Armageddon<\/i>? And that the Autobots-hiding-in-the-yard scene was ripped off from Bad Boys<\/i>? I mean, I knew<\/i> Michael Bay had a limited repertoire, but when he starts repeating himself exactly<\/i>… not a good sign for Transformers 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Otherwise, for a toy commercial conflated with GM ads and USAF recruiting posters, it was appropriately spectacular, but in toto<\/i> just okay. One of my co-workers described it as “Independence Day<\/i> with giant robots,” and he wasn’t referring to the release date. It’s a fair comparison. Scattered storyline; sound-and-fury technobabble; lots of supporting roles, many of which characters never amount to anything real… but Shia’s fine, Turturro’s always good for comic relief, and Peter Cullen<\/a> is<\/b> Optimus Prime.<\/p>\n The special effects are damn good, but movies do not transcend genre by FX<\/a> alone. The comedy was just this side of camp, but it worked. And there were some nice, comic book-y touches, which I suspect were thanks to original screenwriter<\/a> and geek icon John Rogers<\/a>. RepreZent, brutha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s my two-word review, as requested by D when I came home from the movie on Tuesday. My biggest complaint (minor spoilers): Did anyone else notice that the final shot was set in virtually the same location as the infamous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}