Best Thing: Optimus Prime 
Worst Thing: It’s hard to say the WORST thing when there are many things fighting for that honor but in short, Mudflap and Skids.
Score: 2.2/10
Transformers 2 looked pretty good in trailers. There was going to be more robots meaning more action, so in short perfect for a good summer blockbuster. However… some thing went wrong in the process. First let’s highlight the good.
Optimus finally shows why he is a Prime. Finally he takes out not 1, BUT 2 swords to fight. That was something that they definitely got right in the movie, because it was a major complain in part 1. Showing why Optimus is the leader of the Autobots was essential to the movie, because in part 1, he was getting thrown around by Megatron here and there, so it’s only fair that in part 2, Optimus gets his revenge. Bumblebee also has a pretty good scene, and well….thats about it. That all the good in the movie. Unless of course the Linkin Park song at the end counts.
Now on to the complaints. First of all, Mudflap and Skids are 2 autobots that should have never existed. PERIOD. They are useless in the movie, clumsy and always fighting with each other. Michael Bay said that he put them in there for the kids. Really Mr. Bay? For the kids? So you want kids to copy the curses these 2 stooge transformers say every other second? Pathetic. Also, one of them has a golden tooth. A GOLDEN TOOTH. For crying out loud, what were they thinking??!?!
Second, the running time, the movie was way to long. it runs 150 mins. The movie’s plot would have fit easily in 90 mins. This is almost double the time. I was constantly moving around my seat anxiously thinking, just when is this film going to end. Kinda like the same way I felt during Pirates 3 (World’s End).
Another failure, Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) parents. I understand they were there for laughs but come on, how much screen time do they have to take. They beat both Optimus and Bumble Bee in screen time!
Final failure I’m going to point out, well… the fact that Sam is immune again in this movie from getting hurt or dying in this movie in circumstances that ANYONE else, would have at least, have gotten some body damage. I mean look, in the beginning when the tiny transformers are in his parents house, they are shooting bullets and small missiles RIGHT IN FRONT of him, yet this guy doesn’t even get scratched. Then in that scene where he is pinned down by a Decepticon, he gets flung around like a toy yet he gets up and running again almost instantly. I dont get it, this guy must be a transformer in disguise because it makes no sense. Maybe he is , just like that other girl turned out to be, (what was up with that, wouldn’t the Decepticons want to pose as humans instead of vehicules to capture Sam? Maybe pose as his parents? but no…cars are cooler) and Bay is waiting for Transformers 6 when everyone gets bored with the robots and then unleashes the GUESS WHAT SAM IS A TRANSFORMER plot twist on us.
To sum it up, yeah it had explosions and actions, but even those were getting boring. How are they supposed to TOP the action scenes in Transformers 3, when this one has all the DECEPTICONS (i would guess all of them since Megatron says “Decepticons Attack!” and a bunch fall from the sky. Unless there were some who were cowards) attacking at once. Popcorn film to the fullest extend.
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