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I enjoyed the movie, but if you didn’t, that’s fine. People have very different expectations of a big robot shootin’ action movie, it seems. Besides the action – which I thought was very nicely done (if a bit too rushed in some scenes) – I had fun with the juvenile humor and so did my folks, surprise surprise. It was better done than Shrek and other movies I had seen that tried to use the same kind of humor.

Though I will admit I cringed at the urination scene, but that was the sole exception.

I know what JK stands for. Lol,,,

no problem. I just wanted to make sure you realized i was joking. i was messing around with you and 790. c’mon i luv u guys!

Sorry, I missed the “jk” you buried in your comment. And your other comment got caught in the spam filter due to one of your acronyms (which I removed). It’s on the site now.

Vic

Try to enjoy a movie people for what it is instead of picking it apart.

To me the masturbation joke was actually one of the most realistic things in the movie… i guess thats why it was the funniest part to me. I mean you try to go see if your son is ok but he doesn’t want to open the door and when he finally does he’s all sweaty and defensive like he did something wrong. The fatehr didn’t say anything at first probably because he didn’t want to make him feel embarrassed in front of his mom but the mom on the other hand… well they were drinking and alcohol does make you say things you might not say when your sober( nothing against you daniel but at the moment i’m just going to use you for an example of the alcohol thing but i’m not going to write what you did). Now had i seen my teenage son all sweaty in defensive in his room… i would have talked to him about masturbation as well but i guess maybe thats just me.

The turturro character was a joke i do agree on that but did he make more people laugh then the people that dislike cringe… yes. He must be doing something good since everytime the commercials on the big screen at my job and he appears… people laugh.. yeah shocking huh…lol. I’m not saying who the humor is geared towards because i’ve seen people of all ages laugh.

At the end of the day bay will be bay… you could pretty much copy and paste the review that you put the link that talked about the testicles and then add your extra tidbits of things you disliked when you see the movie because i don’t see much of a difference happening anyways… but this is just my opinion.

Slowly steps up on transporter pad,,,

790 to Voyager, one to beam up…
Wheewh.

Look, it’s not because our expectations were too high that those of us who didn’t like the first film, panned it. It’s because it gave us nothing. Absolutely nothing. All I would have asked the film do is present us with decent, well staged action and characters we could rally around, villains we could boo and make us feel like something, anything mattered.

They didn’t. Nobody I know went into the film thinking it was going to be “thought provoking”. But you have to hit at least one of the triumvirate of “head, heart, and laughs”. It had none of those, and action that was shot lousily and character designs that were confusing for the most part, sound and music that was eardrum shattering, and editing by Cuisinart. It gave me a headache and for what? Nothing. I was mad at the screen at about the time the robot urination joke happened, and I just hated it more and more with every passing minute as I knew from that point out there was nothing that could redeem it.

It was an unmitigated disaster.

Shakespeare? No, I just wanted the movie to make me care about something other than scatological movement.

790, please don’t make Kahless mad. Of course, everything makes Kahless mad.

Sharpin up those fangs?

I know you’re not a hater – that’s why I said “just kidding”. Geez, defensive a bit? Maybe you are a hater.

Sorry, I’m not a “Bay hater.” The Rock is one of my favorite flicks and I didn’t even mind Armageddon (far from great, though). I’ve said it over and over: I hated the mashup of of cool action scenes with retarded, juvenile humor.

Sure… PUT humor in the film, but raise the bar a little (OK, a LOT). Look at the Die Hard films – they had humor, but it was appropriate to the movies. In Transformers they wanted humorous moments but decided to inject kindergarten humor (robot peeing on dumb-ass FBI agent) as well as inappropriate humor (masturbation joke).

Vic

You guys are bay and transformers haters! I should hunt you both down and force you to watch bay movies. Jk I wouldn’t put you through that torture!

Can’t be good car advertising, considering that the passenger door doesn’t seem to be equipped with any sort of latching mechanism.