WARNING MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILER INFO ! First half amazing second half to Much going on ,effects out of this world!!

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2009)

Im Fresh out of the cinema after seeing the first screening of transformers!
Im a massive fan of the first film and couldn't wait to see the second one. The first half of the film starts of straight into the action with amazing effects and awesome fight sequences. The humour in the first half is great and balances out the cgi fight scenes really well. With Sam's mother playing a more comical character than the first film. We also get introduced to the new auto-bots but sadly don't get to much involvement with them apart from the 2 twins. It would have been great to get a little more out of sideswipe and arcie although sideswipe does pull of an amazing fight move off within the first 20 mins.
After a breath taking first 15 minutes the story is the set in to motion with SAM finding a piece of the all spark. Without giving to much away the film progress's on nicely adding more jokes and delivering us some great special effects of the new decepticons with new tricks up there sleeve. Soundwave and Ravage are particularly good and love the fact that the original voice from the cartoon is used.
By the middle of the film everything is looking great, the acting by Shia and Megan worked really well and there looked a good chemistry between them. Megan if possible looked even hotter than the first film ( wow shes fine!).New characters and old ones from the first film have now been introduced. We are also wowed with some great fight scenes with optimus prime taking on three decepticons in an epic battle in the woods. This scene for me personally was the best throughout the film and completely jaw dropping, Michael bay had certainly geared up optimus primes hand to hand combat to make him look more like the ultimate auto-bot.
After this i found the films story went a little down hill as it started to seem a little to long and lost some of the humour and magic of the first. We still get introduced to some amazing new decipticons such as devastator, the design and cgi of which cannot be rivalled.
Towards the end of the film i was starting to feel to much had been crammed in with to many robots and explosions happening all at once, and i couldn't really focus on what was going on.I began to think that the movie should have ended half an hour ago. I did love however some of the old reference from the very first Cartoon transformers movie such as the matrix of leader ship ( Yes i still remember the cartoon film ..it was awesome!!).
All in all this is a great film with special effects to wow you throughout. I don't want to criticise to much as i think Michael Bay did a brilliant job on the first transformers (my favourite film of all time) and had some totally awesome ideas for this second film. I think the film could have just benefited by toning down the second half slightly, shortening it and bringing back the spark of the first half with maybe a few less robots and explosions.
I would still definitely recommend watching this if you liked the first film or love all out cgi action films in general then you will greatly enjoy this.