Transformed

[clevermanka]

Well, rats. I was looking forward to seeing Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox being hot together in the new Transformers movie. That's all I wanted. Hot young actors looking hot together. And some neat CGI effects. From the multiple reviews, it looks like we don't get even that small request granted in this sequel. Fox's character goes from "clever mechanic girl made of sex" to "needy whiner who cannot run without holding a man's hand". LaBeouf's character, moonily-in-love with Fox's character in the previous movie, cheats on her in the first thirty minutes.

Um. No.

And that's not the worst of it. Autobots set up as a racist stereotypes, complete with ghetto accents and a gold tooth? A mom who flips out after accidentally eating some weed? Oh, and a professor at Princeton who leers at a female student after she eats his apple that he dropped on the floor?

Oh. No.

All I wanted was some mindless fun, but it sounds like Revenge of the Fallen is just mindlessly offensive.

auroraceleste posted some links to reviews, and I'll share them here.

An LJ post from a woman who walked out of the movie.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Movie Review By Joe Lozito.

I'm posting this review even though it contains the five damning words "I'm not a feminist but..."

affreca posted these:

Roger Ebert's take. Unfortunately, his review of the first one isn't available for comparison. I wonder if he liked it better.

A reviewer at OregonLive.com who did like the first movie.

And here is my favorite review of them all, from someone I've never even heard of. I'll be reading his reviews more often.