Stupid? yes. Fun? Depends.

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2010)

It took an a**load of money to make this movie, probably enough to save a small country from economical disaster and starvation. This is the stupidest movie I've seen in months, but yet I watched it to the end.
The story...they didn't need one and they didn't care about one, so it is what it is - poor. I mean "Masters of the Universe" - poor. If someone expected this to be more mature than the first one, he is in for a disappointment. "Funny" characters and parts in the movie are very much comparable to Jar Jar Binks. I didn't see any ewoks, but I got a couple of jokes concerning testicles and robot farts. Plenty of needless explosions, Megan Fox-is-so-hot - moments, constant "we're gonna die" - false drama, it's all there.
But the action. It looks great. I know I was watching a stupid movie, but I had some fun with it. More stuff gets blown to bits than my brain could process. Sometimes there is too much action, and you get numb from it. Because of the bad story and cynical approach you don't really care who's fighting who, but that's not all, because from all the shaking, zooming and quick-cutting you can't even tell who's fighting who. Last third of the film is purely non-stop action, and it can get a little boring, but still...those effects are impressive. And I didn't even watch it in a theatre.
In the end, this is a stupid, needless, cynically bad but in a certain mindset also a fun movie. Perhaps a guilty pleasure for some. I'd say this would count as garbage entertainment for kids, if not for the shots of Megan Fox's ass, because that's a whole other demographic. That's not exactly material for 7-year old kids interested in Transformers toys. Because in the end, all of this is about toys.