Transformers 2

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took the boy to see this on imax tonight. place was fucking packed. i really liked it, for what it was. bay decides when spending this much money they really need to seem like they have a deep plot. the story does get a bit convoluted and they get a little bit too into the plot than was necessary but the action was pretty damn cool. i hate action movies, and most cgi, but i let it slide here, maybe because i loved transformers as a kid. the cgi is usually pretty good, you know it's fake anyways so you just go with it. sometimes there's just so much metal flying around, though, that it's hard to keep track of what's actually happening, even on imax. some of the fight/transforming scenes are just too cool that you can kind of forgive the dumb love story angle and the obligatory good govt./bad govt. plotline.

i really liked the parents in the first one and the interaction between them and mr luhbeauff is pretty good in this one too. and megan motherfucking fox. jesus fuck, the first scene she's in is legendary, and on imax it's just right there and ready to be worshiped. also, john turturro is back at his john turturro-eist, good stuff.

3 out of 5 and as far as cgi-micheal bay-blow em ups go, maybe 4 out of 5. this may also be based on the fact that i had a blast watching it w/ my kid.