It's an action movie.

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2009)

It's an action movie; which just about sums up Transformers 2. It plays out like a montage of previous movies in its vain, disposing of the parts which slowed those movies down, you know, boring things like dialog, character development and plot. What we're left with is thrown together array of action sequences where the talky bits in between simply act as segways.
Despite this however, what little character and plot development there is is rather contrived and trite. You are simply waiting for it to be over so you can get back to watching over-sized robots smashing the nine levels of hell out of each other. The attempts at comedy come off as forced and generic, which left me laughing more at how bad the jokes were rather than the jokes themselves. Come on, do we really need the stereotypical comedy-relief duo that speak entirely in Ebonics? All I have to say about LaBeouf is that he's as annoying as ever, the nerdy socially awkward sch-tick is starting to run thin, so unless he starts taking parts in proper movies rather than glorified SFX demo's I'll be avoiding his movies like a case of swine flu. Megan Fox is as pointless as she was in the first movie. Her role consists of standing around and pouting a lot, giving the filmmakers the opportunity to get some, ehm, "intersting" shots, but the few attempts she makes at actual acting comes of as laughable. John Turturro returns to spout yet more unfunny dialog, as do the Witwicky parents, but the less said about them, the better. There's also some Mexican kid who cries a lot, and ehm, some other guys who, talk and shoot and stuff...I think.
I have a hard time remembering anything about this movie except for explosions and the sound of grinding metal. So while this movie may only do action, it does it very well, everything else that constitutes a movie in the traditional sense? Forget it.