More of the same....in a bad way **SPOILERS**

Rating: 6/10 (19 June 2009)

Well, this is a hard one to comment on. It was good, but not what it could have been. Let's start with the negatives: - Devastator/Constructicons have NO introduction. They just kind of appeared. - Too many unidentified robots. - WAY TOO LONG! The first was even a tad too long for a Transformers movie, so this one is just ridiculous. - Skidz and Mudflap are the two most annoying characters I have seen in a film in a long time. - Much of the CGI was actually worse this time around. The textures were spot-on and it mostly looked life-like, but the transformers seemed to move at a lower frame rate than the rest of the movie, making them looked stuttery. - The whole film ended with a bit of an anti-climax. - Megatron OR Optimus Prime should not have been resurrected. - Please zoom out, Michael Bay! At times, it is hard to see what is going on!
But it is not ALL bad. The good points are: - The fight scenes are brilliant. It raises the bar yet again for CGI, but it needs to be tightened a bit. - Retains the humour from the first one. - The sound. The sound in this film is incredible. Much better than the first film, especially during the pyramid battle as well as the Paramount/Dreamworks bit at the start. - Scorponok has a really incredible entrance. You almost forget about him until he appears.
So there are more bad points than good, but that is just me. The first film, for me, was a 9 out of 10. The only bad point was the 2hr10minute MINIMUM running time. This is 147 minutes, so it gets a little silly in terms of running time. Still, I hope you enjoy it.