Just saw it.

Not happy

I didn't mind the first movie [although I hate the bionicle -like bots] becuase it was good value summer blockbuster action cheese. ROTF is too long and just gets boring.

Megatron is whipped by the fallen who himself isn't very scary. Heaps of new bots are chucked in randomly but no attampt at characterisation is made for most of them. Its difficult to even figure out who is who since everyone looks like bionicle silvery mush. The ending was incredibly dragged out. Its basically just Sam and his friends taking an hour to cross a stretch of sand with lots of explosions around them. Jetfire was embarassing. Such a cool SR-71 blackbird transforming into a Geriatric piece of junk with a walking stick and a bad british accent. Ecen I can't accept that much cheese.

The only saving grace of the movie for me was the prime vs megs/screamer/blackout fight. Thats was beautiful. I had been disappointed with the first movie coz there wasn't enough robot on robot action but this fight was exquisitely done. The camera was pulled back enough to give a good view and the focus was kept on the bots. Prime was heroic, valiant and totally bad-ass. He nailed all three of them until a cheap shot took him down. That scene was worthy of the animated movie. I'd pay 14 bucks at the movies just to see that fight scene again

PS - I had major fan rage when prime's body was dumped from the chopper like that. Treat the body with some respect why don't you. It would'tn hurt to lower him down gently.

I didn't go into this movie expecting awesome dialogue or the intricacies of method acting. I expected big blockbuster cheese with some nice in-references for the fans. I ended up with a too long and somewhat boring movie that isn't even the best action-cheese out this summer.