Now that Megan Fox has been voted worst actress of 2009 in the worst film of the year, Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen, which I had the misfortune of watching last summer (on my computer, not at the cinema), I was reminded of my favourite review of the film, written by "william, brooklyn" in response to Manohla Dargis's New York Times review:
I think that about sums it up.

The film really is surprising in its utter incompetence as far as, you know, character development and, like, plot is concerned. There are hints that the filmmakers are at least aware of these concepts, but any and all attempts at implementing them are entirely half-arsed and incoherent. Thus the two illiterate Transformer-twins are clearly meant to supply comic relief, but since they're not introduced to us at any point, their presence is mostly just incongruous. Ditto the supposed relationship between Shia LaBeouf and Ms. Fox, which is taken entirely for granted (there has to be a "protagonist", he has to have a "girlfriend", and she has to be "hot") and never actually used to any effect. The two never actually kiss in the entire film, as far as I remember, not even at the end of their great ordeal. The fact that it's rated PG-13 for "sexual situations" is laughable. This is probably the most a-sexual film I've seen all year. It's also the film with the least "human interest". Because none of the characters are ever actually introduced or developed, and because the Transformers all look alike, I basically couldn't have cared less what happened at the end. If I'd had the impression that anyone involved gave the tiniest fraction of a shit about anything that actually happens in the film (e.g. the destruction of the Pyramids), I might have as well. But, as "william" astutely observes, that's not the point.

Nor, surely, can the acting ability (or lack thereof) of the film's stars be the point. Megan Fox's main asset is clearly that she's impossibly hot. That's her raison d'être, as it were. Or, failing that, it's the only conceivable raison for casting her in a film. (In the same way, criticising her for her acting in something like Jennifer's Body is fairly nonsensical, since the whole point is that she's a shallow teenager who happens to be the hottest girl at her high school. This, if anything, was the role Megan Fox was born to play). One of the prime indicators of how ill-conceived and poorly executed Transformers: Rise of the Fallen really is is that they've got Megan Fox, Hollywood's sex-on-legs du jour, and don't at any moment allow her to do her thing. There might as well not be any people in this film at all.

Ideally, I'd just have got a robot to watch it for me as well and be done with it.