Movie Review: Transformers 2

So I saw Transformers at midnight last night.  I went into last night pretty scared.  First I heard a lot from critics that it was WAY too long with a runtime of 2 hours and 24 minutes (which is pretty long) and then I saw that it got a RottenTomatoes rating of 30% (OWCH!).  Well I sat down in the back of a packed theater at the midnight showing texting friends and such who were in other theaters and then the lights dim down and the movie starts.  If you dont want to go into the movie with any idea of whats going on, then skip the next paragraph and go to my final thoughts on the movie.

The movie takes place two years after the first movie.  Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is heading off to college and apparently things are going rough between him and Makaela (Megan Fox).  Sam stumbles on a piece of the All Spark from the first movie and it trigers him to start seeing the ancient transformers writing.  All of the information that was in the All Spark is now in his mind so now Megatron and the Deceptacons are after Sam.  

After the movie ended, I was happy.  I did not see the really big fuss of why critics hate this movie.  It is EXACTLY like Transformers 1 with all of it's action, comedy, and epicness.  Now there was one moment near the end where I had this feeling of things being stretched on and that could have been cut a lot shorter but I really did not care because I was having fun.  The action is very badass and after seeing the first movie, the fights are a lot easier to comprehend (you actually see things better, it is not just a blur of moving parts.)

I feel like people are trying to hate on this movie because they are diving into the movie to deep or critiquing the movie too harshly.  Yes it's a Micheal Bay movie so it has weak characters, lots of explosions, and cheap comedy.  But I'm not critiquing this movie for Best Picture for the Academy, the movies purpose is to make you have fun at the movies.  Have people forgotten about that?  The people who are hating on this are the same people who hated Bale's growl as Batman in "The Dark Knight".  Did those people ever notices that he did it in Batman Begins?  All of this stuff happened in Transformers 1 so what more do you expect?  All they did differently is that there is more of it which I enjoyed.  I mean thats what sequels are about right?  

In conclusion, if you liked Transformers 1, you will like Transformers 2.  The movie is a lot of fun and thats what it is for.  It is just a fun summer blockbuster and if your trying to see past that and look deeper, then you did not get the point at all.  If you need strong characters, deep emotions, and less action, then Transformers 2 is not the movie for you.  To best judge if you will like Transformers 2 and have not seen Transformers 1, go rent the first one on DVD or Blu-Ray (which is a great Blu-Ray may I add) and see if you enjoy watching it.  If you do, then you will like Transformers 2.

RATING: 7.5 out of 10 (Good)