I was stunned at how awful thus movie was

Rating: 3/10 (16 February 2012)

Explanation of the 3 stars instead of 1: the robot CGI, special effects, sound effects and sound editing were all excellent. Kudos to the technical department for their work, it was flawless.
You know how certain kinds of pain are horrible in totally different ways? A really bad toothache is a different kind of awful pain than getting kicked in the balls (I'm sure there is a lady equivalent but I can only speak for my own gender on this subject).
Watching this movie was like discovering a new, different kind of pain that's horrible on a new special level. I've seen bad movies before, but this film just stunned me in its utter contempt for the art of making a film.
There is no coherent plot or structure of any kind, characters just whiz around the globe for the flimsiest of reasons. New artifacts and concepts are introduced and discarded haphazardly and constantly throughout the movie.
The motivation of every character is bizarre to the point of being surreal. This kind of conversation happened at least 3 times in the movie:
Person in position of authority (admiral,colonel,etc.): Wait, you want me just to drop everything, ignore all my rules and procedures, and just do what you say even though it makes no sense whatsoever? Transformers character: Yes. Person in position of authority: OK, I'll do whatever you tell me to do.
The whole movie feels like a series of CGI action scenes just strung together in whatever sequence was convenient. I can't remember seeing a movie where in EVERY scene something utterly illogical is going on.
This film takes the "battling robots take a cigarette break whenever main characters talk" concept from the original movie and abuses it over and over again. You'll be watching this overly long conversation between Sam and some other character and start wondering, hey wait, isn't there a battle going on around them? Why did it stop? Decepticon union regulations?
These robots are super fast and can outrun any human and yet they can't catch Sam in open desert territory, or hit him with a weapon, even after they have had almost an hour of being right on TOP OF HIM.
There's even an inside joke when the characters are searching for alien technology inside Egyptian ruins ("archaeologists have been all through this, what makes you think we'll find anything?"). Ha ha ha archaeologists can't find stuff that's right in front of their face.
I lost count of how many troops were killed in this movie, it must have been well over 1,000 if you count the number of tanks, planes, ground troops, etc., that were wiped out. But in the end, it's all feel good wonderful with no sense of loss whatsoever. That's another problem with the movie: there's absolutely no consequence of ANY action in the movie. If anyone or anything dies, it's ignored. When it is some character you're supposed to care about, they'll be fixed in some magic way right away and be back in the movie. The movie gives the viewer nothing and no one to care about. Compare that to a movie like Up, where you make an emotional connection to the main character almost immediately and it's a cartoon!
I guess the humans must have beefed up their weaponry since the first film, since their weapons seem to actually affect the robots this time around. Barely. You'd think soldiers would be smart enough not to bother using ineffective weapons against an enemy since that's pointless. Apparently, all the soldiers in this film come from the Lemming division. Getting decimated by the Decepticons makes them only more eager to suicidally attack; are these US soldiers or Al Queda?
This movie makes Star Wars: Episode I look like the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I read one review that summed it up well: This is the movie Ed Wood would make if he had ILM and a $200 million budget.