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Gearing up for the Transformers 2 release, I was mildly excited. After growing up with G1, I really wanted this franchise to be awesome. I found the first movie entertaining in my initial viewing, though Mr. Bay, I will never forgive you for ruining Jazz. I figured that this movie couldn't be much worse. I was even hoping it might be better.

What was I thinking?

Have you ever seen an episode of Transformers in your life? You know, the cartoon where the morally righteous Optimus Prime didn't shoot people in the face? Where we didn't have stereotypically ghetto, ebonics-blasting illiterate gold buck-toothed robots dropping vulgar words in every sentence? I liked your remark that they were "made for the children," very cute.

Ok I really need to cut myself off, or this is just going to descend into one messy rant over the flaming train-wreck that is TF: Revenge of the Fallen.

To put it this way: the movie could have used more giant fighting robots, more coherent visuals, less emphasis on the human actors, less potty humor, less "SAAAAM!!" and "BUMBLEBEEEEE!!!" And a lot less suck. That would be great.

However, Mr. Bay is a man who deals in big explosions, not miracles.

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