The incredibly annoying unsymmetrical twins that dominated the amount of TF CGI time yet contributed NOTHING to move the story along. The whole ignorant thug thing just wasn't working with me.
I found Skids and Mudflap ok myself. They were harmless comedy relief (all the racist claims are unsubstantiated,erroneous and baseless) and while they didn't do much to move the story along, it pales in comparison to the transgressions commited in DoTM where Shockwave is completely wasted and doesn't "move the story along" either. In fact he's incredibly one-diminsional in that all he does is smash *beep* up with his driller and utter one word in the whole movie instead of being the brilliant tactician and strategist that he is in other Transformers media.
The annoying mini-Autobot, not having his eyes and mouth in his face and not having his face inside his head truly hurt his believability as a actual character as much as his own over the top stereotypical personality. He came off as nothing more then a baby toy if you ask me.
You mean Wheelie? He was based off a little car in the original G1 cartoon and was an amusing addition to this movie. The idea that his alt mode was a radio controlled car was a good concept that worked given his size and no different than Frenzy transforming into a CD player in the original movie. Speaking of that, there wasn't exactly many visible components of Frenzy's CD player mode visible when he was in robot form but I don't see you complaining about that... The scene where Wheelie gets snapped in the mouse traps and gets shoved in the can and held prisoner are pretty good.
As for the villains that I guess was suppose to be playing the part of the Decepticons. Nothing more then generic metallic humanoid monsters. None of them retained any features that would reveal their alt modes. Doors, hoods, wings, tailgates, fenders you know all the things that made Transformers different from every other childhood hero vs. bad guy story.
Huh? In the original G1 cartoon, most of the time you didn't even see the wheels of the transformers that had vehicle alternate modes when they were in robot form. This is a moot point at any rate, because let's look at the main decepticons in this movie:
The Fallen; Does not even seem to have an alternate mode, but whatever it was, it would have been Cybertronian anyway.
Megatron; In this movie his alternate mode is a Cybertronian tank. No earth vehicle parts to recognise.
Starscream; In robot mode, you can see plenty of the earth Jet features.
Constructicons; You can see plenty of wheels, doors, hoods, tailgates on these guys in robot mode, especially on Long Haul.
Megatron who answered to NOBODY in the incarnation that the live-action version was suppose to be based off of now has a master, WTF!?
That's not a big issue. Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons but he, himself still answers to The Fallen.
The parents... I wouldn't know where to start with picking them apart. No point having them within the movie, eat a brownie immediately get high!? Not only was she told about the refer snacks she unknowingly consumes pot brownies anyways? Dogs humping!? Maybe your into that kinda thing, I don't know. Longtime fans of Spider-man, Batman, X-Men get to see their heroes up on the big screen in a live-action format. None of them have to witness this vulgar scene just why is it TF fans should!?
Once again the parents/Mojo were harmless comedy relief to take the edge of the serious nature of everything else that was going on.
To wrap it up, the US Military saves the day. Leaving out main characters like Ironhide, Ratchet... was Ratchet even in this!? Sideswipe had a really short scene somewhere towards the opening of the movie. That Chevrolet Beat & Trax which dominated so much of the TF screen time yet we NEVER even see them transform in the movie named "Transformers".
The military ASSISTED the Autobots in the final battle in Egypt, they didn't "save the day". Bumblebee, Jetfire, Ironhide and Prime all kick their share of arse at the end there. Which characters are you referring to in the second part of that paragraph by the way that we supposedly never get to see transform?
Just how is it that anyone can defend this movie is beyond me. The 1st movie I liked, it had potential. The third, was good still had room for improvement much like the fourth. Their just isn't anything salvageable from the ROTF.
Just how anyone can defend DoTM is beyond me. RoTF very much follows along in the spirit of the original film and has that awesome fight scene where Prime takes on Grindor, Megatron and Starscream at once, whereas DoTM is too long and drawn out, changes the Sam whitwicky character from an amusing if slightly hyperactive protagonist into a squaling, whining, neurotic, over the top little bitch. It also completely WASTES the character of Shockwave. Instead of him having play a role of a brilliant tactician and strategist (as he is depicted in other transformers media) working with Megatron and Sentinel in their plan to rebuild Cybertron what do we get? We get Shockwave doing nothing whatsoever to "move the story along". No, all he does is smash *beep* up with his driller and utter one word in the whole movie. As a result he was a completely wasted character.
Oh yes, and ON TOP OF THAT I almost forgot Bay's unnecessary and idiotic re-naming of Wheeljack and Mirage to Que and Dino. Urgh. Why do that? DoTM has A LOT more issues stopping it from being a great film than RoTF ever will, for the reasons covered above.
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