A Wee Bit Too Long

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2009)

I was very excited when I saw the trailer for the sequel to Transformers. I love the first one so I was anticipating something just as exciting and just as loud and complicating, and complicating as in you gotta keep your eyes peeled for every robot combat.
However, this one has its flaws. If you read an article about Transformers' plot holes, then you'll get what I'm going for. There's so much going on in 21/2 hours that you'd just wish for it to be over. The first hour or more is about Sam going to college while his girlfriend Mikaela is at home working in the shop with her outta-jail pop. Sam discovers a fragment of the destroyed All Spark Cube and discovers that it's done a major mind blowout on him, causing the Decepticons to go on a frenzy to bring back Megatron, who wants to bring back the mysterious Fallen, who wants to take over Earth and wipe out the human race.
The movie isn't that bad, but despite that original director Michael Bay had directed, this movie is like watching the first movie over and over again: a lot of metal smashing, car chases and big ol' scary Decepticons with their devil red eyes and Bumblebee's inability to speak, which you'd think would be solved after the end of Transformers.
Either way, this movie is only an 8/10.