Optimus Prime shows his stuff in much improved action scenes.

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2009)

The action in this movie was great, the battles being better than any found in the first movie, so why did I give the first movie a 10 and this one a nine? Well, for one the first movie was well the first movie. I had not seen the Transformers on the big screen and not even bigger action scenes can make up for the freshness of the first one when also the story and some parts of the movie were not all that great. The story goes here and there and near the end when I knew the final showdown was looming the movie kept adding stupid dialog scenes such as Shia and his gal talking and trying to figure stuff out. Two of the new Autobot's were so annoying that I cheered when one appeared to be eaten and then there is Soundwave, I can roll with him being a satellite, but why did he have Dr. Claw's voice from Inspector Gadget rather than the voice he had on the cartoon that would have been rather easily duplicated as all you need is a voice modulator of some kind. Still, there were some humorous scenes once again involving Sam's parents and the action scenes were very great I loved all the major confrontations involving Optimus Prime that is for sure, Bumblebee too gets to kick some major booty as well. The story could use work, it is not quite as hard to follow as some claim, but it is overly complicated in areas. Basically, for the most part the movie revolves around what appears to be the Decepticons true leader known as the Fallen and his desire to use a device that would be very bad for us on Earth. So be prepared to be a little annoyed as the twins will talk, Sam's new roomie will annoy as well, and look forward to a runtime of over 2 hours and twenty minutes twenty minutes of which could have easily been cut, but with all the bad comes a lot of good too. Loads of very cool battles involving the Autobots and Decepticons, and let's face it that is the reason you want to see a Transformer's movie.