"Would anybody else like to have a nervous breakdown?"

Rating: 3/10 (16 May 2010)

This movie is obviously not intended for high artistic merit marks. However, the loud and wild approach goes too far, to the point of being dumb and banal.
The action scenes are anything a fan of the Transformer comics could ever ask for. The characters look real, and seem to actually interact with their environment. The CGI animations are interesting to look at, and the robot duels are choreographed with fervor.
However, the violence and destruction are not backed up by any useful plot. Instead, there are monotonous "human interest" subplots that fall completely flat. There's a yawner premise about the guy from the first movie going to college, and trying to distance himself "from his destiny." The whole bit about inserting the hero's parents, and how they're always making retard comments is dull. The hero himself acting emo like that guy in Close Encounters; what's up with that? Then he makes weird faces and throws a fit in a science class. In fact, there's always somebody making lame comments that I guess are supposed to be amusing. Right in the middle of battle scenes where people are dying. There's a stereotype soldier, making the usual Eddie Murphy babblings, and (so original:) all army officers are depicted as clods. The actress doing the sultry femme-fatale Decepticon spy needs acting lessons, to put it mildly. As for the villain's desire for revenge; poorly contrived.
In short, a mess.