The first movie was crap, imo. Way to much stinkin humans. Script sucked. Michael Bay sucks.
Star Trek, by the same script writers, but with a much better director, was far superior.
As for the sequel. I think it has a 22 percent on rotten tomatoes last I checked. I figured that it's over-rated. 22 percent is way too high for summer popcorn story-less garbage like this. That said, I haven't seen the film myself, but I would highly recommend seeing a good film, like Up, or Drag me to Hell. Unlike the gaming industry, there are hundreds of reviews on rotten tomatoes and they don't use numerical scores to judge them, rather an overall percentage of reviewers who voted "good" or "bad" for the film. Thus, the film review system on rotten tomatoes is vastly superior to our game reviews from metacritic or gamerankings in a number of ways, and more accurately represent actual quality.
That said, people like explosions, and critical reviews will always be more weighted towards story impact, character development, and innovation, than special effects and cutseyness. If you are a fan of beauty, and believe films are a more visual medium and should be reviewed as such, then by all means, don't read reviews.
If you believe a films strength is derived mostly from its characters, storytelling, direction, art direction, and script, rather than its production values, then you would fall into the target audience for movie reviews.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
