Transformers 2, one of the, if not THE biggest selling movie this year, has finally released on DVD and Bluray. Will you give Optimus Prime more money, or will a rental suffice?
First off, if your gonna rent, buy, watch this film, you have to watch the Bluray. It's imperative. If you don't have the means, find someone with a Bluray player and invite yourself over. If you don't know them, break in and watch it. This movie was made for HD and you owe it to yourself to watch it in Hi-Def.
But that begs the question, should you watch it? In short, yes. If you, like most of the world, saw it in theatres and was not to impressed I say check it out again. What you remember being bad is still bad (I'm talking to you Skids and Mudflap). But overall, it is a movie with more hot robot on robot action then the first one and that's what you really are watching Transformers for in the first place, right.
I have to make special reference to some issues that other reviewers are bringing up, now that its coming out on the home video market. Megan Fox. Yes, she is not the best actor in the world. No, she is definitely not the worst. But she doesn't need to be for Transformers. It's clear from the first time she's onscreen. Megan Fox is to look at. So that really becomes an invalid point. Also I've been hearing a lot about the dialogue being bad. Really. REALLY! It's Transformers! You looking for Shakespeare? Cleaver Quentin Tarantino pop culture banter? No, of course not. Your looking for giant robots fucking shit up. As long as the dialogue moves the scene from one badass robot fight to the next, who cares.
One thing I also feel compelled to bring up is the comedy in this movie. God! It is just awful. Every time a character tries to be funny it's like they are looking right at the audience and screaming "laugh at me! I'm funny!" In fact the funniest moments come from when characters are throwing out sarcastic lines. That's what funny. Everything else (once again, this is YOU Mudflap and Skids aka the Twins) are just painful jabs at getting cheap laughs out of kids.
So when it comes to the movie (cause this is a movie, a popcorn flick, not a film) it is a good, mindless action flick with more of what you wanted in the first movie. The first one is better, absolutely. The second one is a fun follow up.
But this is a DVD review and you also should get some info on the DVD (or in this case Bluray). First the picture. I'm sure the DVD looks great. The Bluray is better. As I mentioned up above, movies like Transformers are what HD was made for. The picture and sound quality is just astonishing. Absolutely amazing! And good subtitles too. This might seem weird to people but I watch every movie with subtitles, and some of them are just bad. And I don't mean the transcribing, but the placement. I HATE when subtitles are stacked more then 2 lines high and they appear on both the left and right sides of the screen. If you watch movies with subtitles you know what I mean. Now like I said, I like the subtitles, but there is one small gripe about them . Movies presented in wide screen should have subtitles below the picture. EVERY TIME! This does not.
And now the special features. If you don't care about anything besides the movie, the barebones single disc is just the thing for you. If you want a little more experience for your buck, the 2 disc and Bluray delivers in spades.
The sticker on the front of the 2-disc dvd and bluray says "over 3 hours of special feature" and and the back list a few of them and says "and many more." Well usually, the many more is a trailer or 2. Not the case here. With Transformers 2 you get the 2 hour making of documentary and the Bayhem special feature, but you also get a look at the promotion of Transformers 2, over the course of 24 hours with Bay. There's a 25th anniversary of Transformers special that focuses more on the toys, a music video of Linkin Park's the Divide (the ending credits song, and a couple more that are interesting, but not really worth mentioning.
So watch it again on the small screen. Normally I am a bigger fan of these kind of movies in theatre, but this one just had so much going on that the in-your-face aspect of the big screen kind of dampened the experience. The Bluray allows you to really take everything in, and in beautiful Hi-Def no less.
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