I must qualify this by saying I never saw the second one. I was moving into my house at the time so there were other priorities. Then I started hearing tales of giant robot testicles and I was somewhat thankful I did have other priorities.

But is any of this suprising? For whatever reason what Michael Bay is doing works. At least in terms of the studio and Hasbro and shareholders anyway. Why would they stop now?

Personally I believe it will be a success. But I don't believe it will do as much business as the last one. It seems when it comes to modern movie franchises, they try so hard to out-do themselves that all they do is making the audience realise how much they are trying to out-do themselves (see Spider-man 3).