Transformers 2

Last night we finally got round to going to see Transformers 2 (sorry, “Revenge of the Fallen”)

We weren’t expecting much from it, having heard lots of negative – or at best ambivalent – reviews of it being too long, too complex, too this, too that.  But all fours of us came out deciding that we’d actually enjoyed it far more than we’d expected to.

Yes, it’s utterly ridiculous – just read the questions and answers here to get some idea of the awesome plot holes and stupidity of the film – but so long as you don’t go in expecting anything other than a hyper-fast stupid film with lots of transforming robots, you’ll do OK.

I do wonder if I’m getting old, though – about two thirds of the way through the film, my poor brain was just wanting the director to slow down a bit, just to let the braincells regroup a bit.  Sure, you’re just along for the ride really, (and wow, is it a ridiculous ride in *so* many places)  and I guess it does need to be that fast just so you don’t sit back and ask just some of the questions in that Q and A post linked to above, but it would still be good to slow things down a tad on occasion.

As expected, the final half-hour or so is just ridiculously bad, with a bundle of tacked-on sentimentality in case you felt you’d missed it.

So it’s fun – but really, please don’t take your brain into the cinema. If you do, you’ll be badly disappointed – and distracted by those epic plot holes.