Here we have Touka getting wet.

Episode 13 was worse than episode 12 in terms of time-wasting and pissed me off in every way possible. The animation was superb, considering it was from a dying studio, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted more mahjong play and less scenes of Touka getting excited and wet from absolutely nothing. I mean, seriously, what was getting her so worked up anyways? Nothing happened! Haramura Nodoka won twice and gained like 10,000 points. That’s not story progression, that’s not turn-of-event, there was nothing significant to it. It was just Nodoka winning twice in a boring uneventful game.

Saki slowly moves her hand up for the oncoming convulsions.

Was there really a point to this episode besides giving me blue balls? I don’t think so. And what really pissed me off was that they didn’t focus the anime on the real main character: Touyoko Momoko. Momoko is Tsuruga’s secret weapon. They’ve been biding their time just for these last two rounds. When the professional mahjong bitch is going on about how the unfair rules favor “special children” Momoko is amongst the sillhouettes. So who exactly is she?

I’ll tell you what, Momoko is a ninja. There, that’s what’s up.

It blows. What else can I say?

I literally dragged three of my buddies to go watch this movie with me so I wouldn’t feel so foolish going alone, and all I could wish was for it to end as soon as possible. The CG and action was great, don’t get me wrong. But I didn’t even like the first movie, so what made me think that this was going to be good anyways?

This movie kind of made up for the fact that the first movie lacked action by being nothing but action. What little story there was present is hidden underneath layers of heavy CGI and military gimmicks which make life just that much harder for me to live through. There were nothing but lame jokes, apparently to appease the first graders sitting in the front rows.

There was a hot girl and the only role she played was eye candy. 75% of the movie “featuring” Megan Fox was of her ass. I assume she plays an integral part of the story progression since she did end up taming the Decepticon that ultimately led them to the old fart who knew everything. Still, they could have done this in a number of other ways, and they didn’t. What was with the cube sliver? Where did it go in the end? If Megatron can be revived with a simple shard, then couldn’t Optimus as well? Did that thought ever cross anyone’s mind? In any case, main boy dies and comes back, Optimus dies and comes back… lame.

This movie was lame. Michael Bay hasn’t produced a good film since The Rock and Bad Boys.