25 Years of July Fourth Box Office Winners, Ranked

Box Office: Opened on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Earned $42.3 million over the July Fourth holiday weekend to bring its domestic total to $293.3 million.

The first Transformers sequel is an offensive disaster, filled with racist stereotypes, female objectification, and pure stupidity. “When I look back at it, that was crap,” Michael Bay himself told Empire in 2011. “The writers’ strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you’ve got to have a story in three weeks.”