Oh dear

Rating: 3/10 (23 April 2011)

This is the first review I have ever written on IMDb, normally I wouldn't, but after watching this film and seeing that it had a lot of 10-star reviews I felt compelled to comment.
First and foremost, this film was completely ruined for me by the atrocious attempt at 'humour'. It was not funny, it was immature and annoying, the characters who were there supposedly to provide comic relief were just annoying. Maybe if you're 8 years old you'd find it amusing, but it completely spoiled the film for me. In fact, the dialogue in general was bad, very very very bad. The story was OK I guess but it seemed a bit all over the place at times.
The acting wasn't great, I love Shia and I think he was trying but he didn't really have a lot to work with in this film. Megan Fox was poor, the room-mate guy was awful, everyone else was mediocre.
There were also a lot of unnecessary scenes in the film and pointless elements to the story. Seriously, who cares about Sam and Michaela's romance? There was zero chemistry between them anyway. And any scenes featuring his parents were irritating and pointless.
Of course, the special effects and action were really impressive, but towards the end I found myself losing interest because the rest of the film was just so terrible, and to be honest, the action isn't even frequent enough to redeem it in an way.
I could go on but I'll keep this short as I want people to read this and know some of the reasons why this film is bad before potentially wasting their time watching it. I really wanted to like it because I enjoyed the first one but it was just crap.