ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Bay Promises a Passel of New and Unique 'Bots for Transformers 2

Michael Bay Promises a Passel of New and Unique 'Bots for Transformers 2

by Jeff Giles | January 03, 2008

Summary

Directing a movie that has rolled up over $706 million in worldwide grosses can leave a guy feeling festive on New Year's Eve -- as Michael Bay's fans found out when they visited his official site in the waning moments of 2007. Back to Article

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Poncho_E writes:
on Jan 03 2008 11:46 AM

NO DINOBOTS DAMNIT!!!

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gryphen writes:
on Jan 03 2008 12:05 PM

I want to see Tidal Wave in the sequel, with the same scale as what was in the first Transformers game for the PS2. That would take some doing, but hey, you might even pull in some King Kong fans if you let Tidal Wave lose on, say, San Francisco!

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jaqu7 writes:
on Jan 03 2008 01:09 PM

I hate to say it, but Dinobots are actually reeeeally lame. They are among the dumbest Transformers. I would say the odds of Transformers 2 being a good movie are about 25%, but if they put Dinobots in it, you can drop that number to 0. Here's what they need to do; have Optimus Prime keep his mask up over his stupid looking robot lips. Seriously. How did they think that was a good idea? And let's have more robots getting killed. Michael Bay is a Neanderthal, but for what it's worth, Transformers actually gives him a chance to do what he's good at, namely conduct high octane action sequences. So why not ramp it up a little more? Have Optimus Prime slice through at least a half dozen Decepticons.

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ManofStee1 writes:
on Jan 03 2008 01:23 PM

Dinobots. More Starscream. Optimus dismembering some 'Cons with his wristblade. Yes please.

Hopefully there will be some kind of all out war with the 'Cons this time. Let Starscream show what little backbone he has by coming back to Earth with a whole mess of them to screw things up for the Autobots and the military. And no more keeping the Transformers secret either. They nearly leveled that city in the last movie and apparently no one remembered it.

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mouveebuff99 writes:
on Jan 03 2008 01:49 PM

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LOL! thats awesome dude, that has my vote.

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daikara writes:
on Jan 03 2008 02:01 PM

I agree with the less human comments and more robots but how bout a director who will actually show them fight instead of cutting to Shia Leboof running around or retarded marines shooting them with magic bullets and screaming YEAH.

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Fuimus writes:
on Jan 03 2008 02:36 PM

I need to see more of all the bots. Especially the Decepticons. More Starscream, let Megatron become Galvatron so we can see him as a big canon instead of a jet and introduce Soundwave. It made no sense leaving him out of the last one. As for the Autobots. There are tons that would be awesome to see but I'm holding my breath for Skyfire. It would be amazing seeing him as a AC-130 gunship. I air war between him and Starscream and maybe Thundercracker would be so Sick.

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Uradik Smoke writes:
on Jan 03 2008 02:52 PM

I was more than entertained by Transformers and lets face facts thats all that matters when it comes to a Bay movie about giant a$$ robots ...

For the 2nd , I wanna see

Autobots : Hound, Cliffjumper , Wheeljack , Mirage and Skyfire

Decepticons : Soundwave w/Rumble , Thunder Cracker and the Constructicons/Devestator

I would love to see the Dino Bots and Omega Supreme but i would prefer to see them in the inevitable 3rd film , i it will be the one to wrap up this trilogy i would rather see them in a grand final film . Also i would rather them have another movie under there belt to perfect the CGI and allow them to make the Dinobots the best they can ...

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Elixor writes:
on Jan 03 2008 03:02 PM

All I ask is for some effort into making an interesting story for the next one. Cut the campy humor, annoying cliche characters, and Bay's mandatory spinning firefight scene. If you're going to make the human characters as annoying and stupid as the first movie, than I agree with the person who suggested moving the whole movie to another planet. I admit that the first movie had entertainment value (more than what I expected), but it was also damn annoying.

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DMcG writes:
on Jan 03 2008 03:13 PM

Next movie plot: starscream goes back to cybertron to get help, aka sounwave and the contructacons. Meanwhile, remaining decipticons atempt to steal the spark Optimus prime retreived from megatron after he died. They steal it and rebuild megatron into Galvatron at the expense of making a pack with Unicron as he was the only one able to do it since the all spark is dead and so is cybertron/primus. While the autobots are busy taking care of minor crisis on earth, the decipticons return and build a secret underwater base where they plan to drain the earth's energy by tapping its core. Autobots get wind of it, get help from new bots and have to battle on multiple fronts. Skyfire will have to be introduced as the autobots cannot afford to be localized by vehicular transport anymore with a more global crisis at hand.Omega supreme will also make his apparence as a starship inorder to transport resued autobots from other planets.

3rd movie plat: Unicron attacks earth because Galvatron did not follow his master's instructions, and the autobots and decipticons must unite to fend off this monster planet bot. omega supreme detects unicrons movement in their direction, and shows considerable fear. Since he is the largest and most powerful robot, this displays the gravity and power that unicron has as a juggernaunt foe.

thats my thoughts.

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jessxtreme518 writes:
on Jan 03 2008 04:06 PM

Hot Rod, Kup, Ultra Magnus, For that matter lets throw in a couple triple changers people.How about Blitzwing, or Springer. I mean come on springer was a bad *** smartass had a comment for everything helicopter/armored sportscar that could kick *** and have a comment right in between, Definately need devestator. for that matter it would make sense the if it has devestator then the autobots should have defensor because those two fighting in the movie would make more sense than the dinobots and devestator. and to add a couple more how bout sideswipe and sunstreaker. one is cool and collected and the other is an egotistical prick. perfect opposite as brothers make for pretty good scenes of sibling rivalry. just don't bring back wheelie or perceptor. for god sakes no wheelie!

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damvbat writes:
on Jan 03 2008 04:20 PM

nice

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Hamboner writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:08 PM

I really do not care as long as they have Megan Fox looking every bit as hot in this movie as she did in the last. Despite all of the CGI I really do believe she was she most amazing looking thing in that movie. She had the body of a walking, talking Maxim covershot. Can they actually airbrush videos the way they can airbrush pictures? Because I could not believe any woman's body could look as fantastic as her's did.... oh sorry, I'll put it away.

Have Optimus die in a blaze of glory as pass the flag to Bumblebee!

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impfromhell writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:13 PM

Don't know if anybody has mentioned this yet but, if you guys really want a good Transformers movie, you should start a petition or something to make sure Michael Bay is not involved. Let him direct the action sequences, but that's it.

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Poncho_E writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:21 PM

No more Tyrese. NO ANTHONY ANDERSON! No teenage romance. The less humans on screen the better. I almost burned the whole theater down everytime Anthony Anderson was on. He looked so stupid with those nerd glasses. I HATE the fact that when Optimus gave his famous line "One shall stand, one shall fall," we were looking at Even Stevens and not Optimus. It would have been sooooo cool to see him saying it. I would have loved if the camera payed less time to Marines fighting robots and more time on robots fighting robots. This was a god damned family movie. It's hard to take it seriously. I'm sure it was made with the intention of bringing in money, which it did but, the story was weak. I don't know if Hollywood thinks that all people are easily amused and just want to see action while hearing lame and campy humor or, they just don't care. I don't blame Hollywood though, I blame the general audience. That's right! Those people who show up with their kids. The ones who talk and text on their phone during movies. The same ones who don't have the common descency to shut the hell up during non-action scenes. It's these kind of people who loved Transformers 1, Spider-Man 3, and the same people who attend films such as:Scary Movie3-?,Epic Movie,Date Movie,Fred Clause, etc. It's THOSE people that Hollywood caters to, leaving us true fans disappointed and pissed the hell off! If you're reading this and are one of those people. . ."F" you man. . .

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BowieSwimmer writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:21 PM

Can the bots just please kill all the human characters?
Please?!
Because if you're going to make a mindless action film, don't weigh it down with boring subplots about random humans who ultimately no one cares about.

But let's keep Megan Fox.
Oh pleasepleaseplease just keep Megan Fox.

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deneco4 writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:29 PM

id like to see optimus, megatron, and starscream. Cause they weren't in the first one.

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kROCK writes:
on Jan 03 2008 06:34 PM

Another one? Geez. Michael Bay probably won't stop with a trilogy either.

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Comment writes:
on Jan 03 2008 07:04 PM

Lets hope more than one good robot gets the crap blown out of them

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XxCypherxX writes:
on Jan 03 2008 07:32 PM

It's gotta have Unicron and Galvatron, since Megatron got screwed in the first. Only way they could bring the character back at all, and you need him as leader of the Decepticons. Unicron on the big screen would be just as awesome as the animated movie. Scared me to death as a kid.

BRING ON THE WORLD EATER!!!

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