Well, at least you're going to the target audience when seeking to understand the phenomenom that is "Transformers II."

Just today I was thinking about "Transformers II" and some of the previous commentors musings. And the more I think about it, the more I harken back to the appeal of animated cartoon series like "Spiderman" and "GI Joe," not "Transformers" because I NEVER watched that series.
BUT what those 1/2 hour animated series were all about was setting up the "big fight": Spidey vs. Doc Ock, GI Joe against Cobra.

And I THINK the Transformer's movie moreless follows that. How to set up a fresh sequence of robot-on-robot fight scenes.

No real plot, just how can we showcase the transformers, and build up enough empathy or disdain for them, so as to get an audiece hot for a "robot-on-robot" bout when the bell rings.

Just a thought, please run that by Luke, I'd like to know how I did.

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

Er, EC, did you fail to realize that this review is satirical and in no way laudatory?

The movie's a "phenomenon" the way a giant tub of oversalted popcorn is a "meal" -- something to stuff yourself with at the time, but hardly a culinary masterwork, and completely forgettable afterward.

Nothing personal, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself... but let's not pretend it's anything but junk food -- the same kind of empty-calorie candy rotting Hollywood's teeth.