When did "escapist fantasy" become code for shoddy writing, editing, and directing? You're confusing the genre of the film with the quality (or lack thereof) of the filmmaking. There's no reason to excuse bad filmmaking just because the film has a fantasy setting. The LotR films were very well made, and they're every bit as escapist as Transformers.
As I and others have said, the difference between TF1 and TF2 was night and day. This is not to say that TF1 was any kind of masterpiece, but it was at least an entertaining (IMO), professionally made and coherently put-together film. Revenge of the Fallen on the other hand was a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the premise of giant alien robots, even ones with silly metal beards. I can even accept historical and scientific inaccuracies done in the service of better storytelling. It's just that that's not what Bay seemed to be doing in TF2. Many of his inaccuracies made absolutely no improvement to the quality of the film, and could have worked just as well or better if done correctly. It comes off as laziness and apathy more than anything else.
Already seeing that same laziness in this new trailer, when coupled with the huge decline in quality from TF1 to Revenge of the Fallen, doesn't give me much confidence that this new film will be any good.
