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Rant time!!!

I hate Predacons Rising. Not just 'oh, well that sucked." I mean, I actively HATE this movie. So to get it out of my systems, I shall go on a long winded rant about it. Also note that because this is a rant nothing will be in order.

Animation:
I don't have any problems on this front. Astatic wise while it's no my favorite version of the transformers, it looks great, and from a technical stand point everything moves like it should. Buckle up, this will probably be the last time I say anything good about this movie.

Villains:
And this is where things start falling apart. Now, from the title you would assume this movie's central antagonist is Predaking. You would be wrong. Predaking shows up in a few scenes and has a small baring on the climax, but he was a non presence in the show and he's a non presence here. The movie also has two other Predacons, but as I stated in my list of worst TFp characters, they're so forgettable the only reason I remember them is because I gave them stupid nicknames in my boredom. The actual main villain of the movie is Unicron, who possesses Megatron so he can destroy Cybertron's center therefore killing Primus. But that's not all, Shockwave and Starscream are in this movie too. And they just sit around doing jack sh*t until the movie ends and Starscream dies. That's three villains ladies and gents, and I thought if there was one thing Spider-Man 3 taught us it was that having three villains doesn't turn out well. And it really doesn't. The movie tries dividing it's time among these three party's, and the result is that none of them get enough screen time to be seen as actual threats instead of minor plot diverges.

Heroes:
If the cluster f*ck of villains wasn't bad enough, the Autobots are as bland as wheat toast in this movie. One of the best things about Transformers Prime was the great characterization. Even if some left a bit to be desired, everyone had a pretty clear personality. Not in this movie. Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Ratchet, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Smokescreen, Optimus, NONE of them have any personality here, they're nothing but empty vessels to be moved around the story at will. And Bumblebee, quite frankly, p*sses me off more here than he did in the series. He's nothing but a Gary Sue reject that for some reason they feel the need to play up as a grand hero and leader. No. Out of all the characters you can make into the grand hero, bumblebee is not one of them. Ever since the first Bayformers movie he's been hyped into oblivion, and is just over saturated at this point. He, and no one else for that matter, does anything for this story. And the heroes of the story and important, I'm supposed to root for them, but here, I feel nothing but a hollow apathy thinking about how these characters used to be good.

Plot:
Bland leads, unfleshed out villains, and a mess of a plot to boot. Oh boy... The basic plot of this movie is that Unicron wants to kill Primus, and while he's trying to do that, OP and Wheeljack are off getting the Allspark. Simple enough, right? But, they managed to screw it up. It's kind of hard to explain, but it feels like the movie is going 1.5 miles an hour and 240 miles an hour at the same time. Things happen, but because the Autobots are boring and bland, Predaking is boring and bland, Unicron doesn't get enough screen time, and Shockwave and Starscream have no purpose being here other than, hey! Remember them? Yeah! We remembered they existed too! Nothing has any sort of impact whatsoever. By the time the climax rolled around, all I could think was that it was almost over and I would be free soon. I couldn't even bring myself to care when Optimus died, all I wanted to know was what the f*ck happened to Soundwave and wonder why he wasn't in this movie. The plot has no twists or turns, it's nothing but terrible scene after terrible scene until after the longest hour and seven minutes of my life it finally ends.

Character development:
Two. Two characters in this Primus forsaken movie have something of an ark. And yeah, I get there's a lot of characters so it would be hard to give all of them an ark, but the two characters they DO give arks to, Megatron and Knockout, have the exact same ark. Both of them decide that they need to switch to the other side, but again, no one gets enough screen time in the movie for it to feel like the natural course of action. Megatron MAYBE, but Knockout does nothing in this movie, like almost everyone else, and he has so little screen time it's almost funny. And besides the those two, I'd even argue that one character actually regresses. Ah yes, Starscream, one the movie's casualties...sigh...So, at the beginning of the film Starscream is fine, if a bit superfluous, and then Megatron disbands the Decepticons and everything goes to sh*t. After that happens Starscream is right on back to his old backstabbing self, all notion of development thrown out the window, and then he just dies.

So basically everything in this movie sucks aside from the animation... And side note, if any of you guys like this movie, hats off to ya, glad you can enjoy the end of Prime unlike I can, and if any of you are gonna disagree with me in the comments, don't be jerks about it.
And with that, back to stupid pictures and memes.

~ Jakkie