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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I'd say the plot has evolved immensely since the tv show from the 80's. Overally I really didnt think it was a bad movie. I didnt realize we were looking for hyper realism or super complex character development in 2 hours of robots fighting.
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If it was 2 hours of robots fighting, it would have been much better.
Instead we have completely useless scenes with Sam's parents, not a single of which advanced the plot. Not even their kidnapping:
Evil robot: "Unleash the trap."
<parents get puked out of a transformer>
Sam: "Mom, dad, run this way!"
<parents are safe>
WTF?
The idiotic scenes with the "girl" trying to seduce Sam at university added nothing, and like above, the conflict it set up between Sam and his girlfriend evaporated instantly.
Sam's roommate added nothing.
The twin autobots with the racist overtones added nothing. Oh, except that they accidentally beat the battest bot on the planet. Oops.
The government guy who opens the movie threatening to toss the autobots off the planet. Ok, great, we're going to set up a human vs. autobot conflict. Oops! we just shot the suit out of a plane. Guess we just killed that plot device in its infancy.
Basically, the movie repeated itself over and over:
25 minutes of sophomoric attempts at comedy, 5 minutes of bot fighting, repeat four times, roll credits.