Problem:
Why does Sam give the All-Spark shard to Mikaela rather than Bumblebee?

Explanation:
The All-Spark shard is already affecting Sam’s mind, creating a mental block which prevents him from mentioning it to Bumblebee and instead causes him to give it to Mikaela as a parting gift.

Problem:
Why doesn’t Bumblebee ask Sam about the kitchen appliance Transformers?

Explanation:
He does ask but no one can tell what he’s saying because he is having problems with his vocal processor. He retreats into the garage to repair it and plans on asking Sam once he gets it working.

Problem:
Why doesn’t Sam mention the shard he gave Mikaela when Optimus Prime mentions the Decepticons have stolen what he thinks is the only remaining shard from a US base, at the meeting in the graveyard?

Explanation:
The mental block created by the shard causes him to forget he ever had one at that point in time.

Problem:
Why doesn’t Sam use the shard he has to bring Optimus Prime back.

Explanation:
He shows it to Bumblebee and determined it doesn’t have enough charge to bring Optimus Prime back from the dead. There is enough charge to revive a dormant Transformer, Skyfire. For the story’s sake you’ll just have to go with it.

Problem:
Who is the Fallen taking out his revenge on when all of his brothers sacrificed themselves to hide the Matrix of Leadership from him?

Explanation:
He seeks vengeance on the human race over the falling out with his brothers.

Problem:
We see the Fallen get skewered by the Primes, why isn’t he dead?

Explanation:
They do kill him, but the Decepticons are too numerous and keep managing to raise the Fallen from the dead or out of imprisonment. A large number of Transformers joined the Fallen because they agree with the Fallen that their existence is more important than that of the human race or any other race.

Problem:
Sam goes to Prime heaven… and they tell him the Matrix of Leadership is earned through deeds… so how is it then the Fallen is able to pop in and take possession of it? Why doesn’t it turn back to dust when he tries to use it?

Explanation:
The All-Spark created those imagery and sound in Sam’s mind. It was all a hallucination. Just to prove it, you didn’t see Optimus there.

Alternative is the Fallen is a noble character in his own way with a flaw. He is actually trying to save his race, which is true no matter how you want to look at it.

Problem:
How does a projectile from a rail gun suppose to hit Devastator when they don’t have direct line of sight? Due to the distance and the curvature of the Earth it shouldn’t have been possible to hit Devastator a rail gun.

Another problem is rail-guns only work well in video games. They would need a huge amount of electrical power and have to be insanely long to build up enough velocity to even approach the speed of bullets launched using gun powder from a gun barrel.

Explanation:
The prototype rail-gun is used to accelerate-launch an experimental projectile, which has a guidance and propulsion system to adjust for the curvature of the Earth.

I don’t see why they couldn’t have used a nuclear-tipped cruise-missle or even conventional cruise-missile.

Problem:
The Sun harvester idea doesn’t work for me, either. The Sun is a naturally occurring gigantic nuclear reactor held together by it’s own immense gravity in the vacuum of space. It puts out trillion, trillion, trillion terrawatts of power per second or more. I don’t know the exact amount, but at nearly 1 billion miles from the Sun we only get an infinitesimal mount of the total output. In order to use up all the nuclear fuel it has, the device would have to somehow accelerate the nuclear process, which means it would have to expend additional energy making the whole process terribly inefficient. And it isn’t possible to accelerate the nuclear process… since it’s one continuous explosion after another… it’s already outputting the maximum (which is absolutely enormous) amount of energy that’s physically possible. It’s like killing the duck that lays golden eggs just so you can sell it for some copper coins. It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t.

Explanation:
Magic… sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from… of course that was a science fiction writer who said that… you got me. They needed it for the story… Why did they even need to build it on a planet? It looked like a they could have carry it around as part of a spaceship, which would make more sense, if they’re going around the universe looking for stars to drain. They end up just destroying it in the end so… whatever. As if there weren’t enough stars in the universe the Fallen picks Earth. He must be a racist… there’s just no other reason to be fixated on our Sun… there’s billions of stars with no inhabitable planets in the universe.

There were other problems, but I don’t want to seem like I am nit-picking and believe me there were other problems. Big ones like how is it Megatron is able to kick Prime around like a rag doll in the first movie, but in the second movie Megatron needs the help from Starscream and Blackout to kill Prime?

Criticism:
There was way too much crude humor. Dog humping dog, Simmons showing off his thong underwear, dog humping dog (yes, it was in the movie twice… you it’s think it’s excessive to list it twice… well, we had to watch it twice… why we needed to see that at all is beyond me), Wheelie humping Mikaela’s leg. Guys jerking around on the bathroom floor.

Pointless scenes:
The scene with the kitchen appliance robots wrecking the Witwicky residence. If you didn’t have that, there would be less of a reason for Sam to tell Bumblebee about the shard and no reason for Bumblebee to ask about where they came from. You already have a shard to bring Megatron back to life and you don’t use it to bring Optimus Prime back and Sam was already in contact with the All-Spark for a considerable amount of time in the first movie, so it wasn’t necessary for him to be in contact with it again to start having a mental breakdown or he could have run into something at the college triggered the mental break down and you could have used the tasers to wake Jetfire from his slumber. Oh, like Jetfire was a serious character.

The guys with white paint jumping around in the opening was pointless. It looked like it was something you found on the cutting room floor of a B-movie. We find out the Transformers have been here on Earth for eons in the film as the story unfolds, anyway. A soldier with a bazooka would barely raise an eye brow. Cavemen with stone spears do not pose a creditable threat to a Transformer. For giant robots to stop working on something of vital importance them to notice cavemen, seems ludicrous. It wasn’t even well done. I didn’t even like the design of the Fallen.

I had a problem with the design of the Transformers. A whole lot of the machinery is exposed. Does it look cool to someone to see the machinery underneath for it to look techie or something? They do mention force fields in the first movie, but force field + armor is still more protection than just force field alone.

Too many comedic characters:
Sam’s mom
Sam’s roommate
Wheelie
The Twins (Mudflap and Skids)
Jetfire (but it’s part of his character and he dies at the end)
Witwicky dogs

And these were already on top of wise cracks and (attempts at) funny moments from the normal characters. Why do we even need comedic characters? If it’s for the kids, then why do you have all those humping scenes, guys jerking on the bathroom floor.

I think many people would have preferred more time spent on the robots, I mean it is called Transformers, right? Did we really need to see Simmons’s underwear? It was OK in the first movie, since Mikaela was getting back at him for threatening her dad, at least there was a semblance of a reason there in the first movie.

Less attempts at humor, especially crude humor, please… it’s not suppose to be a comedy… most of them weren’t even fun to watch… it was more like… you enjoying a meal then finding out someone put a bug in it… that’s what it was like watching some of these scenes. I’m sure the person who put the bug in thought it was funny, but not the person eating it.

Otherwise it would’ve been one of the best action movie of all time.

Which was the best new character?
I really liked Optimus Prime because he really kicks ass in this movie. His double swords and his will to fight all 3 Decepticons in the forest fight.

Which was the worst?
I really didn’t hate any of them in the movie, they where all good characters and fighters.

What would you have done different?
Maybe had things move on a bit faster than they did just to make it not so long (not that that is bad). Some bad reasons of the film where its length so maybe doing that would shorten the movie.

Did the movie fly by too quickly or did you think it was too long?

Were Skids and Mudflap annoying or genuinely funny?
Not annoying at all, but they could have been a little more serious than they where. The racist thing is nothing, I hate when people down the movie just because of that, they where very funny though.

What was your biggest disappointment or favorite part?
My favorite part would have been the forest fight with Optimus and Sam and Megatron, Starscream and Grindor they was really cool. Optimus really proves why he is the main main man in Transformers. Really cool. The most disappointing part was.…NOTHING! It was all really cool.