The first one was so much better it's unbelievable. This was 2.5 hours of stupid jokes for simple minded people. People aren't that "funny" when they are in life threatening situations. Great special effects I have to say. But almost every time Megan Fox came on, she was all sweaty and looked like she was posing for Maxim, which I guess is what people want to see. THAT was funny to me. In the first movie the robots were serious and didn't say things like "punk a** b****" which is how they should be. Also, I didn't like that there wasn't much of a story to this one. And all of a sudden Transformers can transform into humans?? Ridiculous. I said I would recommend this to a friend, but it depends which friend.