Ripping PS2 Models...

I had someone on to help me do this a while ago but he's highly unreliable and has since.. I don't know... turned to drugs. He's gone anyway.
I want to start a project which is gonna involve some pretty heavy technical work and probably get me sued.
The idea is to take models from PS2 games, onto the PC and animate them into movies, a kind of extreme machinima.
The exact idea was to make a movie using the original PS2 Transformers game.
What I need to know is, does anyone know of any software that could do this? And any software that could load and animate these models?
it's probably way too much but, you know, I need to at least try.
I want to start a project which is gonna involve some pretty heavy technical work and probably get me sued.
The idea is to take models from PS2 games, onto the PC and animate them into movies, a kind of extreme machinima.
The exact idea was to make a movie using the original PS2 Transformers game.
What I need to know is, does anyone know of any software that could do this? And any software that could load and animate these models?
it's probably way too much but, you know, I need to at least try.