Although the first installment in Michael Bay's
Transformers franchise received favorable reviews in 2007, the film's 2009 sequel,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, was a complete mess. Even typically enthusiastic
Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers wrote, "
Transformers 2 has a shot at the title Worst Movie of the Decade." And recently, the explosion-happy director lashed out at his film, confessing to
Empire, "The real fault with [
Transformers 2] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap."