Entertaining but tacky...

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2009)

I did my best not to get excited about Transformers 2. I patiently awaited the premier and when I finally did see it, I was glad I didn't get all worked up.
Yes, Optimus in the forest saying "I'll take you all on!" got my adrenalin going. Yes, I got a little choked up when Sam was telling his parents to leave but his father was didn't want to go. But in the end, the really great parts of the movie were overshadowed by the cheesy, tacky parts.
What really distracted me was the unnecessary use of foul language, stereotypes, and sexual innuendos. I myself didn't care, but this is a movie for all ages. I could handle the mother and her swearing for the most part because it's funny in moderation, but when the twins referred to the roommate as a p*%@y, I had to draw the line. That was nothing but dialogue going for a cheap laugh. Other things that irritated me were robots humping human legs, giant testicles, and a navy ship commander firing a rail gun at the Egyptian pyramids with authorization from a nobody as far as he was concerned. Let's not forget the southern/black personality based twins who just happen to "don't do so much reading."
And I also understand that character development is not something I am going to get a lot of, but please, just a little. In the first Transformers, you got to know the robots and there personalities. You get virtually none of that (minus the twins who were annoying anyway).
6 out of 10 because it had some funny and cool parts and I would see it again.