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Highly anticipated action film of the summer hit the theatres June 24th and swept the box office with $112 Million in the first week of viewing. 

Michael Bay returns as a captain of the ship as he takes on to direct the next installment of the Transformers franchise.  This time around, Michael tries to supersize the world, and comparing to the first film where only fourteen robots were present, this film brings in fourty-six. Someone needs to pass the message to Michael that three times more robots and explosions will not make the film three times better.  But, in this supersized world, one thing that stood out was that Optimus Prime is life-sized on IMAX screens during the forrest fight scenes.




Instead of taking time to make special effects into something extremely over-the-top, Michael as a director should've taken the charge into polishing the storyline. There are many dead-ends, unnecessary characters, predicted plot points, and action scenes that drag on to eternity.

Shia LaBeouf finds out the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers, which sets the whole movie into motion. Sadly, after the discovery, the film turns into Indiana Jones type of adventure, with Shia travelling to Middle East alongside the Autobots in order to save the world.  Other than similarities in the adventure typed genre, both Indiana Jones (The Last Crusade) and Transformers 2 shared the same location for the shoot, which is located in Petra, Jordan.

Dissapointment of this summer blockbuster carries the Megatron weight as it sinks deep into the "I saw it once, no need to go see it again... for awhile" pile. 

Hopefully next time transformers will "transform and roll out" with a better storyline other than ending it with the big bang theory.

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