And yet, they keep making money....

I'm not sure how, but they do. As a fan of the franchise, I introduced my sons to the original cartoons long before the first of these installments was released. They quickly progressed to the other new shows that still air. Imagine our excitement when there was talk of a movie!
The first one wasn't bad - I actually enjoyed it. But these movies have continued to spiral further and further down the garbage pit. The only real difference between all of them is the number of curse words -- the first one had literally none, and this one sounds like a 7th grade boy who just learned how to curse. Pathetic. It only further cheapens the already pathetically weak dialogue.
The ONLY true saving grace for any of these movies now is the understanding of the actually awesome tech that goes into making them. But even that is crippled by the fact that this movie looks like what would happen if all the computers used to make it drank heavy one night to the point of vomiting out images. WAAYYY overboard on the CGI.
Bottom line, my young sons like these movies. They're kids. This movie is just yet another cog in the Micheal Bay CGI machine.

And yet, they keep making money....