Another poor blockbuster from 2009

Rating: 3/10 (17 March 2010)

After the success of the first Transformers movies a sequel was bound to happen. The Transformers movie was basically a set up for the first sequels. Here we get another CGI bombastic fest by Michael Bay.
Set 2 years after the first Transformers film, a multi-national military team, NEST has been created and with the Autobots hunt down Decepticons. After a mission in Shanghai Demolishor warns that the Fallen was coming to Earth. In America Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is preparing to go to an East Coast University. Which packing he finds a piece of the AllSpark and by touching it he starts to have images in his head. At the University the sexy Alice (Isabel Lucas) is attached to Sam, who is still loyal to Michaella (Megan Fox). Unknown to Sam, Alice is a Decepticon spy.
In the Decepticon camp, they plan to get the reminding bit of the AllSpark and use it to resurrect Megatron. By doing this Megatron serves the Fallen who a plan to make more followers by stealing the energy of the Sun and thereby killing Earth. After the Decepticons make their present known on Earth and demand that the people of Earth give up Sam. Sam and Michaella become fugitives and with the help of the Autobots set out to save the world once again.
Let's start with the good aspects (or what there are of them) of the film. First the CGI and action is of a high standard and they are fine action sequences, especially with everyone's favourite Transformer, Optimus Prime in the forest. Michael Bay has a flair for this type of film and he also uses less shaky cam then in the previous film. I also enjoy the military aspect of the film and the film should have shown more of this. There are also some fan favourite put into the film, like Soundwave and Ravage. The Fallen is a good villain and Megatron and Starscream have bigger roles, and it is good to see their rivalry on screen. Plus Megan Fox and Isabel Lucas are hot.
Now the bad: the film is way too long. Many of the scenes with Sam, Michaella and Sam's parents were not needed and dragged the film out. The audience don't really care, all we want to see is robots beating the hell out of each other. The story is paper thin and their should have been more effort in the script. The attempts at comedy were poor and the creations of the characters Mudflap and Skip is the worst in the world. They have been criticised for being racist stereotypes (which they are), but the main problem was they are really, REALLY annoying and I was rousing for the Decepticons to kill them. They attempts at comedy was terrible and they were on the screen for way to long; the fans care about characters like Optimus, Bumblebee, Ratchet and Ironside, not the crappy Twins. The film also has a number of plot holes: one great example is that in Transformers Las Vegas was a battleground for giant robots and the American military, and yet the filmmakers expert us to believe the American government was able to cover it up?
The filmmakers should have accepted Transformers for what it was, robots fighting each other, and just made it a fun 2 hour action film. At least the first film had some heart in it.
A poor blockbuster.