Year One, and No Transformers 2.... maybe...

I went in expecting too much of Year One. Actually... scratch that. I was expecting ANYTHING from Year One. I wanted something along the lines of History of the World, or a Monty Python-ish movie. Instead I got something... bad. Zed (Jack Black) and Oh ( Michael Cera) are two neanderthals who are banned from their clan for eating the forbidden tree of knowledge. They go on a quest, and meet up with various characters from the bible. That's the story in a nut shell, but not much else happens. They set out to save the girls they love, but for some reason that felt flat. Actually, a lot of things felt flat in this. Not everything is terrible though: There are some funny scenes in this movie, believe it or not. The problem is that they are too far and between. Hopefully, the next big Michael Cera movie ( Scott Pilgrem vs. the World{no doubts about this one.}) and Jack Black movie ( Gulliver's Travels... lots of doubts...) will be better. I know for a fact they can be funnier than this. D

Okay, I've been reading a bunch of different reviews that say basically Transformers 2 is the worst movie of the year. If ANY of the things I read are indeed in the movie, I do not believe I will pay to see this travesty. Free? Maybe. But no money is coming out of my pocket. I already got burned with Spidey 3. What stuck out the most amongst the reviews I read was the two Auto-bots named Mudflap and Skids. Now, I don't know whose idea it was to make these characters, but seriously.... they should be hammered for this. The characters have big ears, buck gold teeth, a black southern slang saying things like "gonna pop a cap in ya," and they tell the characters in the story "They don't read." How could ANYBODY approve these characters? Didn't they seem a bit too un-PC for kids during production?? And from what I hear, there is a lot more wrong with this film. I liked the first one, which was flawed in many ways as well, but at least the story was there. This one is explosions without any regard to advancing the story and pretty girls that can't act. No thanks Mr. Bay.