I like the first film, but this one wasn't that great

Rating: 4/10 (27 June 2009)

Two main problems with this movie were it was too long and there were too many annoying characters. The film felt like Michael Bay was high on cocaine because of the hyperactive pace, the obvious continuity errors, and the overuse of crude comedy. Either that or he's intentionally trying to sink this franchise now.
First let's start with the characters. Jetfire, the stupid Twins, Sam's mom, Wheelie, Simmons, and Leo all had most of the screen time and were EXTREMELY annoying. None of them would shut up. They all would ramble on and on whenever they spoke like they drank a pack of Redbull. Ironhide and Ratchet are basically no shows. Optimus is out for half the movie. And Bumblebee doesn't speak anyway. So we're left with some of the most cringe-worthy characters in film history. Megatron and Starscream are turned into wimps groveling at The Fallen's feet. Megatron grovel? He does. He lost his cool factor. The Fallen just appears out of nowhere and for someone unknown reason only a Prime can defeat him. The never say why.
Second were the continuity errors. If the Constructicons form Devastator, then why were they fighting on the other side of the battlefield while D was climbing the pyramid? Two sets of the exact same Constructicons. That makes perfect sense. And they kept saying Arcee, but where was she? I saw 2 or 3 motorcycles and they referred to all of them as Arcee. What? Was there anybody paying attention when error checking? Third was the overuse of crude, dumb comedy. Devastator would have been awesome if they didn't give him balls (2 swinging wrecker balls dangling between his legs). It wasn't funny and basically turned him into a giant joke. That and the fact he got his ass kicked by the super-annoying twins and Simmons. We're all hoping for a kick ass battle with the Autobots versus Devastator, but all we get is Dumb and Dumber and Simmons beating him. Huge letdown. Jetfire farting, Wheelie leg humping, Sam's mom was stoned and acted like an idiot. I had a headache halfway through the movie.
There were some good scenes. The forest fight. Sam's torture scene. Ravage. But the movie was too long with too many stupid characters. Bay just did too much I think.