Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted Part 1

Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted
Part 1

Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen is still a mouthful of a title, but as robot sequels go (and that includes the lumbering Terminator Salvation pic that came out last month) - it's the mother of all robot war films. We're still trying to wrap our earthly brain cells around the film we saw last night at the exclusive Sydney premiere.

The film is best summed up as a ludicrously thrilling adventure, bent towards complete and utter craziness. The B-grade romance feels tacked on, while everything else is flawlessly Bay.

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW: More than meets the eye

It's really hard to accurately describe this film without taking into account the type of audience who are going to be seeing this. There are those diehard Transformer fans who will still believe that the original 80s cartoon series is better. And if that's the case, then forty foot Autobots firing rail guns possibly isn't your thing. But casual fans of the orginal are probably going to love it.

The script, if you could call it that, takes a backseat to the huge array of new robots in this film, as director Bay turns up the action quotient up to 11. More robot characters from the original cartoon series turn up, theres a pleasant homage to the original Transformers film of 1984 and of course, there is no shortage of visual eye candy: the CGI rendering is a big step-up from the last film and it seamlessly blends from one shot to another.

But its not all chocolates and roses.

The GM vechiles are starting to look a little tired by the second film. Nobody expected miracles with these fine products of American manufacturing, but the recent GM restructuring is going to make some of the autobots wish they originally landed in Italy or Germany.

We actually started to feel bad for the autobots. Design styling certainly wasn't their strong point. Where are the Ferrari and BMW transformer models when you need them?

And, remember when fanboys complained about the lack of action in the original film? If Michael Bay had added any more three-second shots to this film, they would of required one of those dire warnings you see on theme park rides.

to be continued ....