Transformers 2 is long

By Daniel Barna

Posted 17 years ago

I’ve noticed that there’s not as much excitement surrounding this summer’s TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, as there was for the film’s predecessor a few summers back. Perhaps it’s because we’re no longer anticipating the robots as we once were. It’s like: been there done that. Maybe it’s because a lot of us didn’t really care for TRANSFORMERS in the first place, and so why should we care about another one? Truth be told, the thing I’m most looking forward to, is more of Michael Bay’s fetishization of Megan Fox’s midriff; one of the few things he’s done right over the course of his career.

Still, the most self-indulgent director in Hollywood is intent on giving us more than we can chew with this sequel and has announced a runtime of 147 minutes; four minutes longer than the original. When asked by MTV about the studio’s reaction, Bay repiled:

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