Good action film, Less than desirable plot and execution.

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2009)

I went to this film feeling that I would be entertained similarly to the last one. It was exciting watching the great battle sequences, but when the plot slowed down to incorporate the human characters it was just uninteresting. Megan Fox's character was nothing more than eye candy, like the first film.
The story revolves around the earth and the transformers having met before the all spark. Megatron is revived using one of the remaining shards from the cube. And he apparently is no master, but the apprentice of a fallen Prime, hence the Fallen. The plot has little coherence with the previous film. The story is completed when the decepticons attempt to activate "The Machine", which collects energon and is capable of similar feats to the all spark. Optimus Prime is the only one who can stop the fallen, being a Prime. He does so in rather handy fashion and the movie is left open for another sequel.
Beyond the action sequences, the addition of the twins, who act much like rednecks and receive far too much screen time, and RC, the only female transformer, has no influence but to create a more congested world of transformers.
The film, just as the first one, must be watched moving from one fight sequence to the next, the in between muck is not worth paying attention to. If you expected more out of Michael Bay you would be sorely sorry with this attempt to create a masterpiece from a beloved franchise.
The action sequences balance out the lacking back story and below average acting. The CG is still amazing.