Okay.  I agree with the idea that in order to understand where you are going, you need to know where you have been.  Or something along those lines.  Michael Bay is no exception.

I’ll skip the small stuff and start right at the ones we remember:

Bad Boys
The Rock
Armageddon
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys 2
The Island 
Transformers

I’ll be honest.  I thought Con Air would be in there too.  But I guess that’s a Jerry Bruckheimer debacle.

Now, I like all of these films.  Not in a genuine way, but in the same way most dogs eat grass.  They don’t need it and it doesn’t help them, but it gives them something to chew.  It could quite possibly hurt them.  This is Michael Bay’s genius.  I know exactly what I’m getting.  And I won’t be a better person after its done.

I’m going to give it away and preface this by saying that as a whole, I enjoyed Transformers 2.  Almost as much as I enjoyed the original.  It is a film targeted for males who want to see robots wrestling for 2.5 hours.  And that’s what we have.  THe absence of plot means it won’t get in the way of the action.  Michael has a uniquely amazing and equally disturbing view of women portraying them all as orange tanned and absent of all individuality.

Its a guy movie.  Without plot.  With Fighting Robots.  And orange women.  And a golden glow to every scene.  And I think Shia Lebouf is funny 90% of the time.  And that’s alright.

I haven’t settled on a rating system yet.  So for the time being, I’ll give Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen a 4 out of 10.

Hopefully Harry Potter will redeem the summer.