Originally posted by Sadako of GirthI thought hte second had more of an actual story and a story that was more logical.
The first had more soul, the second less so, but it was bigger and shinier. Excellent 1st 35 mins, then it was back to usual "Dumber Faster more intense" direction mantra.
It also showed better transformer character dynamic than the first.
I actually don't like most origin stories if I know where the character/s originate from. It's weird, I loved the first one, but I felt like I wanted the movie to hurry up and establish the 'Bot and 'Cons. The second already had everything establish, so no beating around the bush was done, and we were given giant robot fighting.
I like the new one; follows a lot of the sequel rules for being bigger and such. But I LOVED the first one - if they had charged twice as much for admission, I still felt it would have been worth it. It had more wonder, with the nods to past Spielberg pics like E.T. & Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.