One of the worst blockbusters ever made

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2009)

You would expect Transformers 2 to be huge. This movie was a huge letdown. I grew up watching reruns of the Generation One cartoon and Transformers has been part of my life. I know the movies are a new continuity and I'm not going to rip that apart like most Transformers fans have. Of course this was a typical Michael Bay film, over-hyped along with huge explosions, an unstable camera, and eye candy. You would expect Devastator a gigantic to be terrifying and destroy cities much like in Godzilla and other monster movies but no, he tears apart of a pyramid and gets killed with a rail gun. You also got crude toilet humor, with the Twins who are black gangster stereotypes, Devastator's wrecking balls, and Leo tasing himself. Then you have Transformers who were made just to get killed off with less screen time tha Cyclops in X-Men: The Last Stand. Another problem I can think of is they made the Decepticons too weak and hardly look like a threat at all. They also made Optimus Prime and Bumblebee like savages unlike any other continuity from the past 25 years Transformers. Aren't Decepticons suppose to be savages? Anyways this movie is a rare example to me of one that you think less and less as every day passes by. If they make a third Transformers film (and they will since this movie is sadly one of the highest grossing films of all time) they should reboot the franchise. This is worse than Batman and Robin and look what they did to that franchise, they started over. For the next film use the money on people who can actually write and direct a movie instead of eye candy and special effects.