I didn't like it- definitely not as good as the original

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2009)

Two years ago i missed out on seeing the magnificent Transformers on the big screen, and I swore that i wasn't going to miss out on seeing its sequel in the year 2009. Last night , I spent my $20 and watched it with a couple of mates. It was extremely disappointing. The movie overall wasn't that bad, its special effects were fantastic, but numerous mistakes got me puzzled which annoyed me right through it, and got me asking questions like " hey, didn't that guy die"? and " what team is that guy on?"...the whole movie was chaos! i couldn't take to any of the characters bar Optimus Prime which this whole movie was all about.This really ticked me off.
The movie ended up being a massive battle between robots throughout the whole movie, it didn't introduce any of the new characters at all, which really bugged me, because i didn't know what robots I was going for and who was who!. In a way, Transformers 2 isn't a sequel, but a whole new movie. It had many differences to the first, ie., Starscream's voice,personality and looks have changed dramatically since the first, and where we see at the end of the first Bumblebee's voice coming back and repairing, the second contradicts, with him again not being able to speak at all.
However my main annoyance was that the movie had lost its theme " Transformers". Unlike the first one, where we saw the Autobots transform in these neat cars and trucks, and the Decepticons change into the more rough cool "tanks", "Blackhawk helicopters" and "police cars", the Decepticons in T2 basically looked like massive "terminators" from the Terminator movie, not changing into any hectic cars or tanks basically at all through the whole movie.
The humor was rightly placed in the first Transformers and the jokes weren't that bad, but in the second they over-killed it, very similar to Spiderman 3. ie., the two dogs at the start where the camera focuses on them having sex ( this is transformers?), OK funny at first, but when the camera focuses on them again and again throughout the scene...it gets tedious, this joke is old and really isn't that funny.
Overall, his movie had its ups and downs, but the downs are definitely higher. However that saying, little kids would enjoy its special effects and action scenes greatly, although the the scenes like the dogs having sex probably attacks this target audience as well. The movie was also really too long.Rating- 5/10, definitely not as good at the original.