For the first summer visit to the cinema this summer, a group of friends and I decided to see the hyped (by most of our friends anyway) Transformers 2. I can safely say that the entirely critical side of my brain was yelling at me, asking “why this”?! The dialogue was the typical generic “trailer friendly” action one-liners or just added little to the narrative whatsoever. The plot consisted of United States intelligence being based on a whim of a College bound boy, something that is highly farfetched (as well as the fact everyone in his science lecture looked immensely attractive). This on top of the action sequences being confusing as hunks of metal locked arms, rendering my vision helpless in determining who was actually fighting who. Oh and the unbelievably cliché ‘Bay watch’ styled slow-mo sequences with Megan Fox’s most protruding and appealing features to the male eye being plastered to satisfy the lower voiced half of the audience less subtly than a foghorn at Wimbledon. These to name but a few of my peeves with the film.

However, this aside, in spite of it’s repetitive use of codes and conventions and the substantial length of the film resulting in a cramped derriere; I actually enjoyed some of the film’s more charming attributes. The humour was intrinsic and made me laugh out loud on frequent occasions. There is a certain nostalgic value involved with transformers with the feeling of being an 8 year old boy again enjoying the aesthetic pleasure of robots and explosions. I experienced a weird sense of enjoyment in spite of the critical side of me more than being aware of the faults in the script writing and production of the film. It’s certainly not a classic in my books, but was an enjoyable evening out nonetheless.