Loved it

Rating: 7/10 (21 October 2009)

I really enjoyed the first movie. The second movie gives you more of the same. The parental units have become a little more familiar, and I actually enjoyed their antics this time.
They have introduced a few more bots, but unfortunately I don't think we get to see enough of them. There are a couple of wise cracking hiphop "twins" that reminded me a little or JarJar Binks (I know I know, but they weren't as bad and don't ruin the movie). They had a couple of "lady bots" that transformed into hot mamas on motorcycles, and I don't think we got to see anywhere near enough of them.
They added in a few new bad bots, and one mega bad bot made up of multiple construction vehicles. He was pretty cool.
There was pretty much non stop action all the way through the movie (my kind of movie). And although you may have heard different, the story was fine. Not overly complex, but we do learn that the transformers have been to earth in the past and the Decepticons had actually tried to destroy our sun to somehow gain energon. This was against their laws and so the original Autobots defeated the Decepticons and hid the key to their giant sun killing machine by making a tomb out of their own bodies.
The majority of the story is devoted to the Decepticons trying to resurrect Megatron, chase down the remaining fragments of the Allspark, and find the key to the sun killer to destroy the sun. Of course, the Autobots and main characters have to try and stop them. Optimus Prime is killed along the way and has to be brought back to life because only a "Prime" can destroy the original Decepticon (who needs killing REAL bad). The battle where Optimus is killed was awesome. Optimus really shows his fighting skills and kicks some butt, only to be brought down by being stabbed in the back by (who else?) Megatron. There are quite a few new bots, but anyone with half a brain can keep track of them.
I was glued to the screen all the way through. Fun fun fun. Anyone looking for more than fun from a Transformers movie is looking in the wrong place. The worst thing I can say about this movie is that I felt that a few of the battle scenes might have been a little rushed. It seemed there was a lot happening and it all went by so fast.
Hope they make another one. What do you expect, War and Peace?