Not as horrible as some say, but not as good as the first either

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2009)

I listened to all the critics and some of the people who trashed this film. I still went to see it anyway, and was stunned why it was getting such negativity. I mean some people are making this out to be the worst movie ever, and it's definitely not that horrible. I'll admit it could've been better, which is why I can't quite recommend it, but I'm telling you this is not a piece of trash by a long shot.
SOme people are complaining about the twins and how racist they were, but I don't here many people talking about how sexist the movie was against women, and what about the nerdy white FBI guy who was made out to look like a complete idiot, and weak. SO the racism and sexism go more then just one way. In fact if I had to complain about either one of these, I would say it was worse against women then anything. All the women are made out to look like nothing more than sex symbols. Let's see, we had a robot humping the leg of Megan Fox, and the other women in this film do little or nothing but look gorgeous.
On top of all this, the parents of Sam weren't used properly in this movie like in the first. In the first movie they helped to make the movie more fun, but this time they offer no humor other than the mother getting high on drugs and going around making a fool of herself on a college campus showing everybody Sam's baby booty's. THis was in bad taste in my opinion and not funny at all.
Other points that bothered me about this movie were that there were scenes that went on forever and never seemed to want to end. THe final half hour or so was probably the most tedious I ever sat through, but the action scenes before that and the special effects throughout made it a little more bearable. I also like that they made Optimus Prime more of a bad ass. In the first film he was getting whipped by Megatron, but they changed that around with this movie. In fact, Optimus gets some of the better lines in the movie.
I've given some factors why this movie was bad, but I also have to applaud the action sequences, as stated above, and the special effects which were great. Transformers is not the type of movie where you go in looking for a good story. Given these facts, to go with the lack of humor from the cast, I give it an average grade of 6 out of 10. Not the trash that people are calling it, but not quite up there where it needs to be a good movie. THats all.