Awful, just plain awful.

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2009)

I have been a long time IMDb user but this is my first review. I felt so betrayed by this movie that I felt I had to. This was easily the most disappointing films of the year so far. And it had so much potential. I was a transformers junkie when I was a kid, I liked the first movie, and I was excited by the trailer for this one. The premise was a good one and could have blossomed into an engaging story that moved this re-vitalization of the Transformers' Universe forward into possibly a third and fourth movie. Instead, it seemed to focus on potty-humor, dog-humping, and racial stereo-type humor, that was barely passable as funny the first few times they tried it, but since they went back to that same well over and over again it just became stupid. You didn't care about any of the new Transformer characters and you ended up not caring about the old characters either. The editing was horrible with scenes feeling like they were jumbled together haphazardly and even the Transformer battles went by so fast that it was hard to distinguish who was who and it all looked like a tornado hit a junk yard instead of a robot fight. And the testicles on the Constructicons, come on. Everyone in the audience groaned with most of us putting our faces in our hands ashamed of what has become of the Transformers in this, the most recent raping of the franchises of our youth. It is a sad state when we have to hang our hopes on GI Joe for some sort of salvation.