All thriller no filler

Rating: 3/10 (18 July 2009)

What a crying shame director Michael Bay couldn't strike gold twice! The first Transformers movie relied upon a time tested formula for the action movie genre: Action, sexy women, hot sound track and light hearted comedic moments.
This time around follows the same basic formula however this time it just doesn't come together with the same result. I think the main let down lies in the story which sees Shia LeBoeuf return as Sam - still the socially ackward teenager this time starting college - but on the way absorbing knowledge about the location of a second Transformers energy source. Megatron is revived (remarkably easily) and the race is on once again.
The plot line has so many holes in it as to be considered swiss cheese. Introduction of new characters fails entirely by making the new characters incredibly annoying (Autobot twins); and favourite old characters are not given enough screen time to be considered important.
There isn't much positive about this film - even the ever lovely Megan Fox cant do much with her role. The action scenes are even faster paced than the original making them at times hard to follow.
I understand that a Transformers 3 has been inked. Lets hope they can focus more on the story and characters than on cheap thrills and low brow humour. The cinema going public just expect more nowadays!