First off I'm going to get this out of the way. This is not the worst movie of 2009, not by a long shot, that's reserved for Grace. No the big problem I see with Transformers 2 is the pacing. The movie feels to long. As with all Bay movies he tends to overindulge in cool camera movements that make a scene to long, that doesn't need to be that long. If you shaved down the scenes in question I would say you'd get a pretty good 2 hour flix here. As is I enjoyed it, but you can pretty much put your brain on auto-pilot. The actors are just there for eye-candy and the robots...well they're well done. There are parts of this Transformers I like a lot better than the first, but the first climax is way better. The opening in China is a fantastic fight, and one of my beefs, not enough sideswipe or the other good auto-bots. To much decepticon action. Another stand-out sequence is when Optimus Prime is attacked by Megatron, Starscream and Grindor. It's about time we see Optimus kick some major butt. That scene was worth the watch. The next being the Constructicons forming into Devastator, that was one mean SFX. All in all there are better popcorn movies, but if you love explosions then this movie will go down easy like the fake butter used in said theaters.
