Lackluster money-generating attempt based on previous

Rating: 4/10 (23 July 2010)

To a seasoned movie watcher, those sequels that are simply trying to leverage more money out of our pockets, because the first movie rocked, are obvious, and this is no exception.
Of particular bad taste was turning Megan Fox into a sex toy for male gratification. Yes, she is one very hot woman, but do we really need to see her straddled on a motorbike, grinding her hips into it in slow motion? Do we really need to see her sashaying down a college hallway in a schoolgirl skirt in slow motion, etc etc??? The first movie was excellent but was marred by one problem I see a lot of in newer, heavy fx based movies - they have the action scenes TOO CLOSE to the subject matter, so you can't really see what's going on, just a lot of very fast close up images of various robot parts zipping by smashing into stuff. This movie took that to a new level. The only scene that was memorable to me was the 'rumble in the jungle' forest battle scene were the Deceptacons bring serious hurt to Optimus. And only when they ZOOMED OUT and actually showed the battle properly! The lead character, who had some moxy and edge with his 'poor loser buys old junker and get's hot babe' routine, now completely blows it in the sequel, proving he is just a really bad actor that benefited from some good writing in the first movie.
Transformers will forever be the first movie, this one was TERRIBLE.