I have no idea how Bay managed to make this one worse than the second, but he came through. The only redeeming quality Dark of the Moon had was that it (eventually) ended. Shia LeBeouf is already one of the most annoying actors in hollywood to begin with, so who had the bright idea to start him off as a whiny, annoying, degenerate loser who inexplicably lucked into a second hot girlfriend? Speaking of, I love hot British chicks, but she managed to be nearly as useless as Megan Fox.
The entire bit where Sam gets a job as a mailboy, "impressing" this tough-as-nails boss who runs a compay in a fashion that would make Hitler cringe was horrible. From the creepy, over-the-top Asian loser to the bad homophobic jokes and said boss later turning into some sniveling wimp that Pulp Fiction's Gimp would have dominated.
And then, halfway though, it turned into Battle: Chicago and Shia's character does a hero transformation even less believable than Emilio Estevez in Judgement Night.
Just a horrible movie all around.
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