Good action film, not as much fun as the first.

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2009)

First of all, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Some of the things that bothered me have to do with comic relief, and I just simply let those go, like the "humping" of Megan Fox's leg by the little robot.
More to substance, I thought that Megan Fox's character had been given a lobotomy since the last film. She had previously pretended to not be smart. She didn't want people to know that she knew a lot about automobiles, because, as she explained, guys don't like a girl smarter than them.
When the final battle occurred in the first film, Megan Fox's character lashed up Bumblebee and drove while he fired at the Decepticons. It was her idea. She was brave and smart. That was appealing.
Her cooing and dreamy eyes when looking at Sam, in "Revenge of the Fallen", would have almost tolerable, if she had not gone for the fake Marilyn Monroe voice, stereotypical of dumb blonds.
It seemed like no matter what was going on, all Megan Fox could do was look at him, with her lips parted, inviting him to kiss her. Even in the midst of battle, all she wanted was Sam to say, "I love you", first.
I like tough women in films. It's because I believe that they are just as capable as men. So give me Sigourney Weaver in "Aliens" over "Revenge of the Fallen's" Megan Fox any day. Lena Headey in the Sarah Connor Chronicles, was just one of many smart, tough women in the series.
So, all we got from Megan Fox was "eye candy", and not a substantive performance. Maybe that's all that mattered to Michael Bay.
I also was offended by the Jar-Jar negative stereotype "guys from da hood" represented by the Twins. I got over it eventually and laughed at many of their lines. I just wish it had not been so disrespectful and racially biased.
Those are my two problems with the movie. By the end, I was cheering like all the other people in the theater at Optimus Prime's triumph, and would go see it again.