On the other hand, I have to say that after seeing it, I’m really puzzled by a lot of the reviews of Transformers 2 that said, in a lot of words or just a few, that it sucked. There was lots of big-robot action, of course, along with Megan Fox (go ahead, call me a sexist pig!), lots of cool military hardware, and so much sly humor that it’s probably going to take me a few more viewings to catch it all.

There was only one thing that I really didn’t like about Transformers 2: stereotyping. I don’t understand why producers and directors have to try so hard to have entertaining sidekick characters in a film that they make them funny-annoying instead of funny-humorous. I think The Twins annoyed me the most: as soon as I saw these two, I immediately thought of Jar-Jar Binks from Star Wars and uttered my mantra of “Jar-Jar must die!” For the good of the Republic, you understand.

I’m sure if I thought hard enough I could come up with some other quibbles, but again, this isn’t Gone With The Wind. If you’re looking for a serious giant-robots-saving-the-Earth story, this probably won’t do it for you. But if enjoy lots of stuff being blown up, wow-ing special effects, and some very entertaining humor, this is a great film to see. We definitely plan to add it to our Blu-Ray collection.

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