by Lisa Hemsley

Created on: June 14, 2010

Sam Whitwicky is getting on with his life after his epic battle with Optimus Prime and the other Auto bots against the Decepticons and is heading off to college. Unfortunately, his life is about to be changed again when he finds a small piece of the cube which he was defending stuck in an old jumper. After touching this small piece of metal small robots come to him and try to get the metal from him. Fortunately his trusty car / autobot Bumblebee is waiting in the garage and he manages to destroy these small robots.

Elsewhere, Optimus Prime is also battling against the Decepticons and during this he learns that they plan on raising the fallen and to do so they must retrieve Megatron from the bottom of the sea. The Decepticons are successful in the rescue of Megatron and soon Optimus Prime is seeking out Sam to help him.

Sam is trying to settle in at college, but things go from bad to worse for him when he gets flashing symbols in his mind and he cannot stop them, he manages to get back to his room where he is able to write them down. His long term girlfriend does arrive at college with the metal from the cube and says she will help him try to work out what the symbols are.

Will Sam and his girlfriend be able to work with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and the other auto bots to stop Megatron and the decepticon’s from rising the fallen and destroying the world?

I was quite looking forward to seeing this film as I was surprised by the first instalment and my boys had been driving me crazy for ages asking to see it, unfortunately I have to say that I was left feeling very disappointed with it. The storyline was quite average when I sat and thought about it after and I think a lot more could have been done to make it so much better and engaging.

I found the role of Sam, played by Shia LaBeouf was quite good and he managed to work very well with all of the special effects which were used for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and at no point did I not believe that he was actually talking to them. He also had a great on screen chemistry with his girlfriend who was played by Megan Fox. She also gave a great performance, I think she did play on the sexy image more than was necessary but hubby did not complain about this one bit! There were a lot of additional characters and actors in this film and they each gave good performance and all brought a different element to the film with their characters.

The saving factor for this film has got to be the special effects, they really

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