Decent movie if you need a break from thinking to hard...

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2009)

Let's start with the highlights:
Pros: - Great action – Awesome graphics
Cons: - Awkward scenes – Stretches of bad dialog – Weak plot – Plot holes
If you like great action and fast-paced scenes and are very forgiving of weak plot you should enjoy this movie. But let's go through some of my gripes anyway (SPOILERS):

The commander of NEST also commanded the base that was attacked at the beginning of the first one and should have been killed there. - The Helicopter Decepticon (Blackout I think) was killed during the city fight in the first movie and was never shown to be resurrected yet was back fighting again. Also I think there were a few others that could have sworn had been killed in the first one. - Sam and his gang found the Matrix artifact in about a day whereas advanced alien robots couldn't find it in hundreds of years. - The transforming college girl was unnecessary. - Sam's high mother was unnecessary. - The Decepticons kidnapping Sam's parents and bringing them to Egypt seems incredibly random and useless even when it was part of some "trap." - Anti-Climatic super villains: The Devastator and The Fallen barely did anything.

But this movie is what it is it was exactly what I expected from a Bay sequel (i.e. Bad Boys II). It had a similar issue as X-Men United; could have been an awesome sequel then tried to do too much and made itself mediocre. If about 30-40 minutes of all that pointless dialog and mini-scenes were cut out it would have made the movie flow so much better.
Final Thoughts – What I expected for a Transformers sequel. Sam, Optimus, and Bumblebee carried the movie. Great Action. High Entertainment to Attention-paying ratio.