‘Transformers 2′. It’s out. Am I going to go see it this weekend? Well, we’ll see.

I feel like I kind of have to if I want to keep calling myself a VFX artist. And also to see the Camaro spot we did here at Speedshape that’s leading the film nation wide. But then a voice in my head keeps popping up telling me that I shouldn’t risk wasting 2 1/2 hours.

This article from Scifi Wire kinda makes me want to check it out though simply just to see all the VFX work that ILM did. Which apparently broke a couple of their blade servers overnight on one of the more heavy effects shots. We’re talking smoke and everything!

LINK: How the giant-robot F/X in Transformers 2 nearly broke ILM. Seriously

Visual-effects supervisor Scott Farrar was in charge of turning Industrial Light & Magic’s computers up to 11 to create the new characters and told reporters that the sequel features 40 new characters. That and the increased resolution of the characters for new IMAX footage nearly exhausted ILM’s render farms: After one hard night of rendering computer-generated footage, some of the hardware actually exploded.

“We did, we lost some machinery that night,” Farrar said in a press conference on last week in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Little puffs of smoke, just like in the movie.”

But then I read their review of the movie on the very next page, and I swing back to the other side of the fence.

LINK: Review – How Transformers morphed into the lousy Revenge of the Fallen

Notice I haven’t talked about the robot fights yet? That’s because they suck! They even blew the robot fights! They’re just so busy there’s no awe or wonder. Blowing them up on IMAX doesn’t make them more intense. The film does not use IMAX to capture a mood or tone, as The Dark Knight did. It’s just bigger.

Hard to believe that a film about giant destruction suffers by getting bigger. Even with a few graceful parkour moves and some fun scale with Optimus Prime standing next to international artifacts, Revenge of the Fallen has lost the fun of Transformers. It’s mechanical, pun intended, going through a plot that doesn’t matter to get to visuals that are not impressive.

So I don’t know.

What do you guys think I should do? Go and see it, or wait to rent it on Netflix? Have any of you already braved the crowds to go check out all the purdy explosions and giant robots? What did ya think?

Let me know in the comments below!