Something was Missing

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 2009)

The first film had humor, catchy phrasing, and built in suspense...this movie has a tribute scene to Gremlins that is nice, a battle sequence with Optimus that makes buying your ticket worthwhile but then it goes all downhill. I actually got sleepy, felt like the humans were the sidekicks and weren't as well integrated into the story. Lots of big big explosions, special fx sequences, a few touching moments but you just keep feeling something is terribly missing and wrong about the film. The last portion of the film seems to drag on and on making the finale very anti-climatic...this is one of those sequels where you hope they make a third to repair the damage done by the second film. Ho-hum.