...What the hell? I mean, I liked the first movie, sure, but like how they did the first XMen movie, I found a couple of things wrong with the film. On top of that, millions of other people badgered the movie because of said mistakes. So now...they decide to make a sequel?
Michael Bay needs a tire iron to the crotch.
First off, the kid character wasn't Spike, however lovable and endearing he was. Same thing about Bumblebee, but only about his appearance. A Camero instead of a Volkswagen bug....'kay. I can let that slide. My man the Bee needed a total makeover, anyway. But a lot of people didn't like it.
Second, They killed Jazz, the only truly cool, laid-back transformer of the whole bunch. Also known as the token black guy of the Autobots. He was Killed near the end of the movie instead of somewhere in the middle or the beginning, which was a slight plus, but still, why?
Third, what the fuck was up with their choice of bad guys? They tried to give a makeover to Megatron...which was okay, I suppose. The only problem with the way they changed Megatron's appearance was the fact that they made his head look like a razor-sharp dick-knob. Sure he should look evil, but DAMN! Somebody in the design department had issues. And the characters Barricade, Blackout, Scorponok, and Brawl/Devastator were never part of the original Decepticons. The only ones that were were Megatron and Starscream. Bonecrusher was actually supposed to ba a bull dozer...and HE was supposed to be one of a group of minions owned by the Decepticons known as the Constructicons, who would connect to make the giant robot "Devastator". The others were not in the Transformers storyline untill third or fourth generation. Oh, yes....and Barricade? You know, the evil cop car decepticon? He was also never one of the original badguys. He was actually supposed to be one of the bad guys made way-waaaaay down the generation track (Transformers Armada/Transformers Energon), And the original cop car's name was Prowl, he was an Autobot, and he had the characteristics of a good cop. I assume they made 'Barricade' a part because somebody on the production team at DreamWorks Reeeeeeeeeeeeeally dissaproves of authority. But think about it...an evil cop car....with an evil bunch of Military equip vehicles?
That was lame.
Compared to the Military, the cops are more like borderline mall security. "Barricade" must have been made much fun of whilst in the company of his peers. Because originally...Barricade was a missle tank.
The excuse they gave for this blunder was that they originally intended to put Prowl in, but they also wanted the bad guy cop, too. In fact, they thought that the presence of the bad cop car was more attractive, so they took the good cop car (Prowl) out completely.
Plus...to add insult to injury...why don't we remain on the subject of people they left out of the first movie...
SPike Witwicky....Not SAM Witwicky was supposed to be the kid who found the transformers. And Spike, was an only child who lived with his single father. Also, The first Autobot SPIKE (blond-haired kid) found was Hot-Rod, A bitchin' cool kinda surfer-dude/good-ol'-boy Ford GT Autobot with the classic "fire bird" decal emblazoned on his chest plate. And I'm afraid they confused HIS personality with that of Bumblebee's. Hot-Rod was more the rambunctious but loyal teen and BumbleBee was more the boyscout. BOY, did they fuck that up.
Also they left out Kup, who was Hot-Rod's mentor, and was a close friend to Optimus Prime, Much older than Ratchet or Ironhide, and he was the jeep that everybody was looking for the whole scope of the movie.
The last original good guy, or good Girl, was Arcee. But they wrote her out of the original script. She was going to be used initially(as a cool motorcycle), but the producers didn't want to have to explain the concept of female robots....
Dude?...electronics?....Plug---Socket. One needs energy to use, the other basically has a source of energy all of their own that they just have ooze out of them....hence, woman.....Duh. And don't get me started on the idea of birth and creation, because while these robots from another planet are indeed machines, they must still need to create more of themselves somehow. Otherwise there would have been only one transformer in the entire movie, wouldn't there?
As for the badguys lacking in the movie, there were Skywarp, Thundercracker and Sunstorm(all bad-ass jets), the Constructicons (except Bonecrusher...wtf?) and everybody's favorite, Soundwave. But oddly enough, one of his minions Frenzy was allowed to be in the movie (again, wtf?).
Oh yeah...and some of the voices for the characters was wrong to say the least. It sounded as if Pete Cullen (Classic voice of Optimus) was doing more than one part.

Oh, and it only gets better from here, folks.
They are thinking of bringing back all of the idiots (lesser character actors)which made the movie almost unbearable to watch.
You know....liiiiike...they're thinking of bringing back Section Seven (retarded), Sam and his parents in tow with still no Spike in sight (more retarded), Plus the blond Englishwoman, the soldier guy and his war buddies, and last but not least, the fat-but fly- black hacker guy who is dirty-nerdy to the nth degree.

Stephen Spielberg must have cried himself to sleep the night he saw this turd premier in Hollywood.

And now....they are making a sequel...
Dude....put in Arcee and /or Hot Rod, Soundwave, all of the rest of his tape bad guys, And Spike and his dad and their truckin' way of life, or there won't be a soul in the theater after you premier the sequel. People will leave near the beginning, for christ-sakes. The only thing that saved the first one was the action/drama sequences, the comedy sequences, and the fact that the characters who WERE the original characters Acted the way they were supposed to...except Bumblebee....what's up with that?