Transformers 2

Transformers 2.

Where do I start?

First, I loved the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's faithful to the fans of the original continuity as it is to anyone that enjoys a Michael Bay film.

However, the refrigerator logic on this one is simply mind blowing. When the explosions died down, the last of the juvenile potty humor is delivered (good Lord, this is PG-13?!), and one is left considering what has just taken place, it becomes apparent that someone was asleep at the wheel in the scripting department. Did it seriously take 3 writers to hammer this one out? Out of the entire film, this one gem in the credits really was the most astounding.

We have almost every conceivable macguffin and plot hole thoroughly used and abused in this one. Does it really take Shia LeBouf only 10 minutes to solve a riddle that took the Decipticons eons to decipher (and fail)? Was Indiana Jones working with Shia in the back ground on this one too? How long does it take -really- to find those shards? A casual glance and it's obvious, so why did it take them years to find them? Why does the robot hump Megan Fox anyway (again, PG-13?)?
It really looks like the script writing session probably took place in a Dennys over some brown bagged bottles of tequila.

I digress, it's a decent enough film while the explosions are going on. Just don't think too heavily on it. You might get a headache trying to rationalize it all. Which is fitting, since the original Transformers continuity was a little head scratchingly strange and this one, unfortunately, follows in its foot steps despite doing a wonderful job of glazing over and improving the original plot archs.
Though I can't help but think that if this was the first film, they would not have made a sequel.

Spoiler:
Great nods to Megatron turning into a tank after his death, having the original voice actor for Soundwave (and it really does add to it all), Soundwaves minions doing what they do best, classic Megatron/Starscream dialogue, Jetfire having all his backstory and being wonderfully reimagined, and even the completely insane robot spirit ancestor hoo-ha.

Kudos for Michael Bay getting it all in.