Ignore the bad reviews, unless of course you hated the first one.

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2009)

Well, I've been waiting for two years to see this movie, and now it is finally a reality. I loved the first Transformers, being a fan of the Autobots and Decepticons ever since I was a toddler, and since I loved the 2007 movie, it was no surprise that this was my #1 anticipated movie of 2009.
Now, having read all the bad reviews and the negative word-of-mouth, I was so scared that this movie was going to suck. However, I watched this movie three times in a row, and I can easily say that it is so far my favorite movie of 2009. And it has also become my new favorite comic book superhero movie. Sorry Watchmen, you've been usurped.
First, let's start out with the general idea.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes place two years after the first movie left off. Both the Autobots and Decepticons have been in a stalemate, while Optimus Prime and the Autobots have teamed up with a new, elite military unit that specializes in fighting the Decepticons, known simply as NEST. After discovering a Decepticon in Shanghai, wrecking most of the city in the process of fighting the Decepticon, the Autobots receive a warning that an ancient being known as The Fallen will have his revenge. After touching a sliver of the All-Spark that was caught in his hooded sweatshirt, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) starts seeing images in his head of the Fallen and starts drawing strange Cybertroinan symbols. While this is happening, the United States government wants to force the Autobots to leave, believing it to be the only way to stop the Autobot-Decepticon skirmishes from destroying all the major cities on Earth. Sam Witwicky, now a college student, is asked by Optimus to be a sort of peace ambassador for the Autobots to convince the government to let them stay on Earth, but Sam says no. Then everything stars to go really bad when the Decepticons steal a fragment of the Allspark from a Naval base and use it to revive the dead Megatron.
The Good After seeing Transformers 1, I was actually wondering how they were going to top it, but they did. This has got to be some of the best action scenes that I have seen in years, even better than the action scenes in The Dark Knight. ILM has really outdone themselves, after seeing the effects they did in the first one, Iron Man, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. You had some entertaining new characters (Mudflap and Skids, also known as The Twins, and they are not racist at all, and they are not the new Jar-Jar Binks like some people say. The humor was very funny, and everyone, in all three times I was a the theater, laughed at every single joke in the movie. And the IMAX experience is just great.
The Bad I don't really have anything bad to say about this one, except for the fact that it was kind of a little long, and could have been cut down a little bit. The Deceptions and The Fallen's plans to destroy Earth was kind of stupid, and I wished that Soundwave, my favorite Decepticon, could have had a few fight scenes himself instead of just floating around in space the whole time. Hopefully, he'll be in Transformers 3 and he'll actually have fight scenes this time.
Overall The general consensus is this. If you hated the first one, then don't see this one, it won't change your opinion, but if you loved this one, then this is a must-see. If you loved the first one, then by all means, ignore the bad reviews, and go out and have a good time. And now, I wait patiently for July 4, 2012 for the third one.