Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen

To start with, I did enjoy the The Revenge of the Fallen as a movie. I wouldn't say it's the best movie ever, I wouldn't even say it's the best movie I've seen this week on youtube. But as a night out, why not.

But let me argue that Michael Bay should stop messing around with my childhood. I mean, the proof is in the pudding:

• He actually managed to make the Transformer equivalent of Jar Jar Binks. Guys... There's a very good reason why Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar so much... BECAUSE HE IS FREAKIN' LAME. And so are the two bitches they call the Twins. I was actually rooting for whomever these Tonka Toys were fighting to rip them apart. Sadly, they made it to the end of the movie unscathed...
• By the way, how did these guys manage to beat up on Devastator for so long?
• WTF happened with Megan Fox's lips? Megan, there was nothing wrong with your lips to begin with. Why do you pain us so?
• But Megan, thanks for that beautifully gratuitous shot in the beginning of the movie.
• Girls, small word of advice. DO NOT inject fat into your lips. Big Fat Lips are NOT attractive. They make you look like you have a glass window permanently stuck to your face.
• Michael Bay seems to interpret the previous movie's criticism of not giving the Transformers themselves enough screen time, as "Let's give the audience MORE robots." And so he carted out a bunch of anonymous Transformers, who get destroyed pretty much within five minutes after introducing them. Movie 1 did have this problem already with the original Bonecrusher, who Optimus decapitates almost immediately. Now they're doing it pretty much all through the movie.
• Probably Megatron didn't do a lot of exercise during his stay on the ocean floor. Optimus was a freakin' Stone Cold Steve Austin '96-'98 now, handling Megatron, Starscream and Grindor at once. Optimus FINISHED OFF Grindor by ripping his head to pieces for chrissakes. Compare this to Movie 1, where Megatron dominated Optimus completely, right up until Shia put that Rubik's Cube thing in Megs' chest. It's probably best that Megatron does some extensive work out at the gym before coming back in the third movie.
• Optimus is a bit out of character... headshots? Neck snaps? Fatalities? Man, that would have never happened in the comics. That stuff is for Arnold Swarzenegger, not the leader of the Autobots.
• WHERE'S Anthony Anderson!? Dammit, we need him back!
• I'm not getting into that car Megan, Shia and that Leo guy were driving in while fleeing from the Pretender girl: the bloody airbags don't work! They ran the car into a lamppost, and nothing happened. It took a fall from about a 100 meters up, through the roof of a factory for the airbags to eject. Eh... that's not safe.

I will get this on Blu-ray obviously; but I wouldn't go for the Special XE Edition with ketchup and mustard.