Mindless Fun

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2009)

You know the boys who smash toy cars together and go "bam!, crash!"? Now replace toy cars with real cars and real explosions. That's basically Transformers 2. Also, the cars punch each other in the face and shoot rockets.
Transformers 2 is a movie made by boys, made for boys. And as that, it's great fun. As an achievement in storytelling, you should rate it much, much lower. The script could have been written by a 9-year-old. What little there is to act as story makes little to no sense and sometimes comes out of nowhere. If Michael Bay wanted to create a cinematic masterpiece, he failed. What he did achieve though is a boy's dream of an action movie.
Go see it if you can ignore the plot and enjoy the action for its own sake, otherwise don't.