[Ashrak]

Best movie ever.

good jokes. good action.

last 2 hours were pure shooting.

[Scotty]

Last two hours.  As in, it was significantly longer than that?

[Black Wolf]

Indeed. Saw it on day one, was great. More of the action from Transformers 1 (i.e. giant robots fighting, military equipment blowing up/blowing stuff up etc.) and loads more shots of Megan Fox either looking sexy (straddling the bike, getting changed outside the garage etc.) or running in slow motion. Awesome These guys have really figured out what their core audience is looking for.

As for the movie itself, it felt a lot more like an episode of the old cartoon than the first movie did - the decepticons were acting like their older counterparts (especially starscream and megatron). The jokes were funny, for the most part, although the twins could have been handled better. The whole "Hatchlings" substory seemed a little contrived and silly, TBH, but it was only present for a few seconds altogether, so I can ignore it.

So yeah, possibly not the greatest movie ever, but a worthy sequel to number one.

[EDIT]Probably around 2.5, give or take?

[Galemp]

Just got back--it could have been a lot better, with a script rewrite. Yes the FX were spectacular, and it was great to see the Constructicons in action, but there was too much stuff going on and too many loose ends and plot contrivances for my liking.

[iamzack]

I liked old man robot with the cane. He was effing hilarious. I would watch a transformers movie just about him.

[Turambar]

I liked old man robot with the cane. He was effing hilarious. I would watch a transformers movie just about him.

Made much better that he happened to be a frakking SR-71

I wouldn't say best movie ever, and being drunk made the action somewhat hard to follow, but it was entertaining.

[karajorma]

I liked it. Jetfire was great, walking stick and all and they reversed the error they made in the first movie and turned Prime into the badass he's always meant to have been. I was never impressed by them having Megatron beat him in a 1 on 1 fight in the first movie.

[Liberator]

Up front I will say that I like the movie.  I really like it,

Spoiler:

Optimus beats Megs and company so hard during the first battle they're still wearing the scars during round two several days later.

I have a spoiler for anyone brave enough to watch it btw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo

[Kosh]

the decepticons were acting like their older counterparts (especially starscream and megatron).

To be fair the Decepticons in the first one didn't really have enough screentime to act like it, especially Megatron.

[karajorma]

Yeah but you can only blame the script for that.

[Liberator]

To be fair...there was a script?

[Falcon]

Indeed an awesome movie, a lot of action, humor, a lot more autobots, and explosions.

Spoiler:

Favorite and scariest part of the movie was the Decepticon *****. I was all like holy **** when I saw that huge tail like thing coming out of her. Eugh... still creeps me out.

[JGZinv]

I find it amazing that you just about can't find a positive review at all
in the media, but the average joe thinks it's a pretty good movie for what it is.

I'm beginning to think there's either a anti TF campaign going on, or editroials
need to find their inner child again.

You don't go to a TF movie expecting Shaksepere, just like you wouldn't go to a
WWF match expecting to see the ballet. We came to see Peter Cullen toss one liners
and large metal things blow stuff up.

Wonder if there's any reviews from the deep south.... 

[Snail]

I like how they just had to set the battle in some Arab country, and how the Jordanian helicopters got served in 3 seconds.

[NGTM-1R]

The review writers can't get past the fact they were in task overload during the early battle scenes.

Me, I can't get past the fact they didn't let us see what happens when you hit a Decepticon with a Mark 48 ADCAP, and GODDAMMIT THEY BLEW THE MLRS, THEY BLEW IT ALL TO HELL.

I WANTED THE STEEL RAIN YOU BASTARDS.

[IceFire]

If you want to read any reviews about Transformers 2 I suggest reading the following link (it has been passed around a number of my friends): http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie?skyline=true&s=x

In short my feelings are that this movie was a fantastic explosion fest ...a work of art.  I could have done without a few of the parts in the movie but whatever.  I was entertained!  Plus it had a gigantic list of jets, tanks, ships, and so forth all kicking ass

[General Battuta]

That movie was racist, misogynistic, childish - nay, cretinish - horribly written, poorly acted, filled with nonsensical and unnecessarily convoluted plot twists conveyed by ham-handed and incoherent expository sequences, and totally ****ing awesome.

I saw it in IMAX. So worth it.

The review writers can't get past the fact they were in task overload during the early battle scenes.

Me, I can't get past the fact they didn't let us see what happens when you hit a Decepticon with a Mark 48 ADCAP, and GODDAMMIT THEY BLEW THE MLRS, THEY BLEW IT ALL TO HELL.

I WANTED THE STEEL RAIN YOU BASTARDS.

I was impressed by the attention to detail, though. The Vipers popping flares before their attack runs, and the credit they gave to the Decepticon's armor. They weren't just falling over Stormtrooper-style when hit with an APFSDS or something like that.

[JGZinv]

Ice that had to be one of the best movie reviews I've read....

[NGTM-1R]

I was impressed by the attention to detail, though. The Vipers popping flares before their attack runs, and the credit they gave to the Decepticon's armor. They weren't just falling over Stormtrooper-style when hit with an APFSDS or something like that.

No, it took several hits before they fell over.

One of the things I like about this interpretation of the franchise is that we can actually fight them and win.

[General Battuta]

It's kind of a shame the movie was intended for a younger audience. If they'd been willing to show the wounded, Black Hawk Down-style, we could've had a few really intense, almost Battletech-esque war scenes. As it was it felt just a bit too sterile, since the most common form of casualty was 'tossed about, implying death'.