Their war on our planet continues as the Autobots and Decepticons continue to slug it out over Earth's destiny. Sam Witwicky is caught in the middle as important clues from the All spark have been imprinted on his mind and holds keys to the survival of transformers and humans alike.
This movie is big, loud, wacky, too long and dumb...but it's lots of fun eye-candy. I really enjoyed the first Transformers, but this sequel suffers the same fate as the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels; they try to cram too much into one movie, even unnecessary things, making it too long and too much. The story is all over the place and has plenty of holes. There is way, way too much cheap humor. Some of the newly introduced robots are annoying characters. The original movie made the relationship between Sam and Bumblebee pretty endearing and funny; serious lack of any of that in this one. About midway through I was on board with the story and the fun action, but it loses steam from that point on. There is plenty of jaw-dropping action, fights (one with Optimus Prime taking on 4 Decepticons is particularly impressive.) and some of the most amazing effects I've seen. I imagine director Michael Bay will push those envelopes even further for part 3, hopefully he mixes in a little more work on the story as well.
** out of 4 - See it on IMAX for the fx.
(PG-13 for violence, mayhem, language and crude humor.)
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