Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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  December 26, 2009

  thmtsang

  I was so looking forward to the next installment and it is great. Good storyline and full of adventure. Autobots live and work alongside the US military to protect humans But Megatron's dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and he revives him using his own s...( read more)park. There starts another battle between good and evil against the backdrop of the pyramids. Excellent graphics and action. Megan Fox is probably paid a lot to be eye candy but that is all she is. She's like a poor man's Angelina Jolie. All body, lips and very wooden.

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  December 4, 2009

  mjgildea

  Christ, this movie was dumb. You-can't-get-pregnant-if-you-do-it-standing-up-or-in-a-pool dumb. Or maybe it was blow-your-kid's-college-fund-on-hookers-and-ponies terrible. Haven't decided yet. While the cameos were one of the Revenge of the Fallen's few saving graces along with ...( read more)more robots in some pretty wild fight scenes, said robots in those scenes were so detailed that all I was able to get out of the CG messes were metallic-colored blurs. The movie was about an hour too long and all of the good aspects of the actually decent first movie were milked dry within the first 20 minutes. I was ready to forgive Michael Bay after the first Transformers movie but he proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that his God-given assclown status is not only deserved, but will be his until the day he dies. Probably longer. Bay just apparently assumed that by throwing more shiny things on the screen his audience would just drool and forget how terrible and incomprehensible the story was or wonder why the hell Shia LaBeouf's hand was in a cast for the last act of the movie. I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters and vag roommate was the worst. Wait, those twin Autobots were the worst. Sorry. Hearing Green Day 2387 during the movie and the Linkin Park song during the credits only added to the minus column and Megan Fox looked like a sunbeaten leather handbag in training. If you're over 14 and liked this movie you're a goddamned retard. Congratulations, Michael Bay--you've done the impossible and made Joel Schumacher look like fucking Fellini...

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  December 1, 2009

  lewiskendell

  It should have been easy to make a sequel to Transformers. With a simple story, a few more robots and more action, this would be an automatic home-run. Unfortunately, the filmmakers got a little too ambitious with this one.
  
  First of all, I have to admit that the CGI was very im...( read more)pressive. The Transformers look better and more complicated than ever, but at times the action and fight scenes are incredibly difficult to keep track of. The camera is often so tight on the action, and the robots move so quickly, that everything comes off as muddled. I'd like a lot more pulled-back views of the action, so that we could actually see all the eye-candy.
  
  That particular issue wasn't a deal-breaker, but I did have a big problem with the "humor" and the overall story. This movie tries so hard to be funny, and 95% of the time, those attempts fail horribly. I was just shaking my head at how impossibly sophomoric many of the Transformers acted. Most of the human characters were also so over-the-top that it was annoying. Either make the movies semi-serious, or get someone who isn't a complete idiot to handle the humor. The twins, the leg-humping, and the annoying mother are just a few of the awful bits that should have been left out.
  
  As for the plot, I'm not asking for a Oscar-worthy tale. I thought the plot of the first movie was fine. But Revenge of the Fallen seems like it's trying to be an Indiana Jones movie, and that doesn't work at all. And when did the transformers gain the ability to use magic? And teleport? How could that be explained in the least way? Why did the robots seem to completely disappear from the area, just because it was convenient for the story? Plot-wise, this was a mess. The first movie worked because it was simple, the sequel is needlessly complicated.
  
  I guess the fact that I liked the movie, despite its HUGE flaws, is a testament to how inherently cool the concept of transforming robots is. I honestly can't think of any other reasons to not give this movie a worse score. I didn't particuarly like any of the human characters, the story was bad throughout, right up until the end (when it became sappy AND bad), and Bay ignored most of the cool new robots, and instead focused on the lame ones like the twins and the old farting jet with a cane. I'm probably giving this a too-high rating....yeah, I'm pretty certain that I am.

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  November 18, 2009

  binky013

  It's apparent that they were trying to do more with a storyline in this sequel, but somehow that was detrimental to the project. How can this be? . . . . . . . . . Oh, I know! I know! I know!

  Just because you try to write a more involved story doesn't mean that it can't t

  ...( read more)urn out dumb. That's it. The story was a little bit stupid.

  I liked seeing and especially hearing less from Fox -- her voice should be harnessed as a secret weapon -- and LeBeouf was good again, but the inane story killed this for me, and all the great action couldn't save it from becoming anything more than humdrum. Too many yawns for me. See the first one, if you want to see either.

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  November 13, 2009

  allan913

  It's bigger and better than the original. A spectacular, eye-popping, heart-pounding and visually dazzeling epic action masterpiece. It's an amasing sequel that stands as one of the greatest ever made in it's genre next to Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement day and The Empire Strike...( read more)s Back. Director, Michael Bay strikes gold once again, crafting another astonishing triumph with some of the best speacial effects of today. The master of action has done it again. It's an incrediable, outstanding, extroadinary and breathtaking action-packed thrill-machine from the explosive begining to the incrediable finish. A smart, terifficly funny, exhilerating and mind-blowing adventure. It delivers more robots, more action, more laughs and more epic battles than ever before. This film screams out classic in so many ways. A fast, furious and full-throttle kintetic action flick loaded with pulse-pounding thrills and adreniline-pumping excitement around every corner. An absolute feast for the eyes and ears that will keep you entertainend right to the very end. A wickedly entertaining, explosive and truly unforgettable flim. It packs on hold on to your seat excitment.

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  December 31, 2009

  sarahlev83

  Great movie. Plenty of action and eye candy!!!!!

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  December 31, 2009

  LisaMichelleAckles

  As much as i loved the first Transformers i have to say that Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was even better!!! The action just got way better in this film, and i loved that even though Sam tried to live a normal college life when the time came for him to save his friends t...( read more)he Tranformers, he dropped everything and went rushing to help them. I cried when Optimus Prime died and was overjoyed when Sam risked everything to bring him back to life, and eventually succeeded. I'm glad that Sam & Mikaela managed to make their love work and stayed together, with Mikaela finally telling Sam that she loved him as he was dying, which along with Optimus Prime's death, also brought tears to my eyes. A great film and i can't wait for the 3rd in the trilogy!!!
  
  
  My Actor/Actress review:
  
  Shia LaBeouf - i love him as Sam, he's a really talented actor
  
  Megan Fox - better in this than the first
  
  Ramon Rodriquez - great introduction of Leo
  
  Josh Duhamel - great actor
  
  John Turturro - still as annoying as he was in the first film, but funnier
  
  Kevin Dunn - still so funny as Sam's father
  
  Julie White - even funnier as Sam's mother

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  December 31, 2009

  allaboutsilence

  not as good as the first but yet still entertaining and want a third.

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  December 30, 2009

  snorkyTALK

  ok...so...this movie was not very good... still has more purpose than "Up in the Air" though... i think i liked 'G.I. Joe' more... sorry TK

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  December 30, 2009

  deadmansshoes

  I will preface my review by saying: If you think my review is long and drags, it's nothing compared to the drab slog that is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
  
  Transformers 2 is a movie so bad that the only way I can conceive it's existence is if it were an anthropological exp...( read more)eriment on the slow, ceaseless decay of western culture. Screen this movie to the masses, if they respond to it in a positive way then they are morons and mankind is sliding ever closer to being a real-life Idiocracy. It's no exaggeration to say this movie has as much of a script as "Ass: The Movie".
  
  While every blockbuster release this year was hit by the strike the telltale signs are buried to varying degrees. While Wolverine's momentum was inert and scenes existed for no reason other than to splice into a trailer, the basic structure of a plot existed there, even if that plot was bland and without drama. Star Trek's plot begins to collapse exactly around the time Kirk meets Future-Spock, but the entire film works because it's directed with energy and smarts and filled with a downright perfect cast. Terminator Salvation is half-way through a rewrite and the entire thing doesn't click together, but it's the general drabness that sinks it.
  
  Transformers 2 is a film without the slightest sign of a script, it looks like a 10 page treatment expanded on the day of shooting. Nothing makes any sense, there's no structure, no character arcs, no drama.
  
  It seems clear that every positive thing to come out of the original movie were the work of Spielberg's input; the original screenplay was almost 100% Amblin in tone, some signs of that carry through to the finished product (such as the central friendship between Sam and Bumblebee and the funniest scene in the whole film, the Autobots hiding around the sides of the house) but the influence of Bay could also be seen - the inappropriate sex humour, the racism, the spastic editing.
  
  Sadly, for this film Spielberg's eye was off the ball, and Bay just started kicking it around like a giggling little moron. Transformers 2 has completely and utterly lost that Spielberg touch, lost that heart, and now it is packed to the rafters with these painful Bayisms.
  
  Now I have no problem with Michael Bay - Bad Boys 2 is indulgent and offensive and crude... but it's an R-rated action movie, so politically incorrect content is par for the course. Transformers 2 is utterly inappropriate for children, and they should be the target audience for this fucking film. I would not let a child sit through this, it's puerile, foul mouthed, racist and insultingly dumb. Simply having robots say "bitch", "shit", "fuck" and "pussy" doesn't make it ok for kids to hear it.
  
  Another thing this applies to is racism. The Twins, Mudflap and Skids, are without a doubt some of the most bluntly racist creations since the crows in Dumbo. They make Jar Jar Binks look racially sensitive. Boasting big ears, buckteeth filled mouths (one of his being gold) spitting out jivetalk, and with some illiteracy thrown in for good measure. They are a mechanical emodiment of racial stereotypes that have been stamped out of most mainstream entertainment by now but are seemingly able to get a free pass because it's just robots. To anyone who will defend the Twins as entirely innocent due to their robotic nature, or even go to the lengths of saying "if you thought they were supposed to be black then maybe you've got the problem", then consider this... in the deli scene (when LeBeuf and Fox reunite with John Turturro) we see a black man with buckteeth, if Michael Bay didn't intend for us to make a connection between the Twins and African American stereotypes then why include this character? It's a pretty blatant visual link and one you simply can't argue against.
  
  The bigger offense in having these characters present is their screentime. Optimus Prime spends a considerable chunk of screentime absent (even when he was alive), but he did get the movies ONE good sequence which I will touch on later. Bumblebee, the heart of the last movie, was largely absent too, even in scenes where he was present, he rarely communicated with Sam and the others and was merely a background present when the camera was on him. It's also telling that the one scene with even the slightest hint of heart was when Bumblebee mourned Sam's death - Bumbelbee and Sam's friendship was key to the original films success and here it is an afterthought. Every other Autobot from the original film is absent for the almost the entire film, so we are stuck with the Twins for most of it's runtime. Even then the amount of time dedicated to the transformers is slim. It's more human characters, once again.
  
  I tolerated the abundance of humans in the original Transformers because (a) we were being introduced to the Transformers and needed audience surrogates to set things up and (b) at least Sam was entertaining, and to varying degrees so were his parents and John Turturro's Agent Simmons. Sadly Bay has beefed this element up instead of the robot presence, which was clearly the main draw for the audience. So now we get lots of Turturro (which gets old in this film) and Sam's parents are shoehorned into far more scenes (even the final battle, for no logical reason) and there is a brand new, annoying sidekick played by the alarmingly talentless Ramon Rodriguez. Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson are back, but in far shorter supply, as they spend most of their time with the Autobots we're not going to be seeing.
  
  If the movie is racist, it's also heavily right wing in nature. This is a movie proudly part of the Bush years. The Autobots engage in a War On Terror-like hunt for Decepticons, with Optimus Prime and the others acting like murderous dirtbags. I would say he behaves out of character but the film has no concerns with characterization. The movie also paints the Obama adminstration as spineless pussies, with Obama's mouthpiece character ruining the armies fun by disapproving of their genocidal witchhunt which as likely killed thousands of innocents in collateral damage. The soldiers openly mock this character, and by extension the new left wing adminstration, as being anti-military.
  
  It's telling when a plothole is the least of a movie's problems. The Fallen (the most underdeveloped villain in modern action cinema, he makes Star Trek 2009's Nero look like Star Trek II's Khan) claims that only another Prime robot can kill him, which would be Optimus. So if only Primes can kill other Primes, then why was Optimus killed in a fight by three bog standard Decepticons? By that point in the film you really don't care, though, there is so much more to complain about than basic story consistency.
  
  Admittedly, the Prime fight sequence is the only time in the film where the action is not only decipherable but has some vague hint of drama and intensity. Prime kicks some impressive ass and the action holds still with a surprisingly restrained eye, letting us take in the spectacle instead of barraging us with a whirling mass of visual noise. On an IMAX screen the result is absolutely stunning, the transition from the standard scenes to the IMAX shot scenes is a large scale equivalent of shifting from VHS to Blu Ray, it's astounding in it's clarity and scale. Beautiful stuff. Sadly this is the only scene where the IMAX technology is ever taken advantage of, the other scene including Devestator is boring and only seems to serve the purpose of giving us an extra clear view of Devestator's giant wrecking ball testes. A giant robot with testicles. I often thought Michael Bay had the sensibilities of a 13 year old, but I may downgrade that to 7.
  
  There is very little in this film that has any bearing on story or character, there is possibly 1 hour 30 mins of screentime in a 2 hour 30 minute film that has no purpose at all. And barely any of it involves giant robots. For a film called TRANSFORMERS 2, it may have an even smaller ratio of human-to-robot screentime. All those claiming it is MORE action packed than it's predecessor are misremembering, because this is a movie almost devoid of momentum, tension, drama or even explosions. We get an action scene at the beginning, a brief action scene 40 or so minutes in (by that time it feels like the movie should be wrapping up, the film moves so slowly) and then a finale that focues more intently on the militaries participation in the fight than the robots. There's your army porn for you.
  
  This is a movie utterly without discipline. The juvenile humour clashes with any semblance of drama, scenes flow with no rhyme nor reason, basic geography is given the middle finger. Bay's demented editing will intercut two dogs humping in the centre of a firefight. An airplane flying overhead is cut between a shot of a woman walking down a hall (why? as a shot it would serve a point, but in that sequence it makes no sense). Characters enter a building in D.C. but exit and find themselves in Arizona. One shot will show them driving across a desert plain in Egypt, next we see them on a tarmac road in Jordan. To say the visual storytelling of this film is off would imply there is any sense of storytelling to be found.
  
  In Transformers 2, Michael Bay has created, quite possibly, the dumbest movie ever made. If you could sit through this mental assault without noticing how profoundly fucked it all is, then I would put good money on you being a moron or someone with such low expectations out of life that you'd probably settle for domestic violence from a loved one.
  
  Shia Labeuf continues to show that he can make good work out of the worst scripts and while he does his best here, he just cannot overcome the rest of the film's glaring, headpounding flaws. Megan Fox looks gorgeous but you can see that just about anywhere these days, so that's no reason to catch this film. Newcomer, Australian Isabel Lucas actually 'out-sexies' Fox in her short screentime, although the level of sexuality she exudes is just too much for a kid's film. It was a-ok for me, but I couldn't help but think of how wrong it felt in this film. Her presence raises another issue, and another example of the script being one of Bay's last concerns when making the film; her character is a Decepticon that can transform into a human being (as well as grow a mechanical tail from her what I can only imagine was her vagina as the anus would be too subtle for Bay). Absolutely no precedence was set for this, so if they can do this, then why don't they all disguise themselves as humans? It's highly likely such a thing never occurred to Bay, and the only reason she was there was there because he had recently sat through Terminator 3 and thought a shapeshifting, hot robot chick was "kewl".
  
  While the script was of little concern to Bay, as I said, it was clear that what was of primary concern to Bay was whatever random, asinine bullshit he thought was cool - regardless of whether it fit with the scenes or even made the slightest bit of sense. If you were to discover a portal into Michael Bay's head (like in Being John Malkovich), this is what we would see when looking at the world through his eyes. I'm almost positive Michael Bay is severely autistic.
  
  It's hard to believe the summer blockbuster has come to this; a tradition that began with a bona fide masterpierce, Jaws, has devolved into Transformers 2, without question one of the dumbest movies ever made. Plan 9 From Outer Space possesses more good filmmaking instinct and basic script construction than this mess.
  
  As an anthropolgical study, watching Transformers and taking in the audience reaction is a fascinating glimpse into how little people care about the basics of film - taking the notion of "shutting off your brain" and turning it into something quite literal. The only way to enjoy this film and come away without complaint is if you are medically braindead. If this is the kind of shit we reward as a culture with record breaking box office, then we deserve to be treated like morons.

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  September 11, 2009

  samjan1234luv

  IT was fantastic and interesting.It revealed the power oftechnology but the movie has not been concluded, we need see TRANSFORMER 3 FOR THE CONCLUDED PART.
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  August 17, 2009

  Rosepetal75

  Leo Spitz could have a new love interest played by Parminder Nagra in Transformers 3.
  
  Sam is with his girlfriend: Mikaela to get married @ the end of the movie of Transformers 3.
  
  Wheelie will join Autobots because he is frightened of Decepticons in Transformers 3 before he learned a former Decepticon: Jetfire switches side to join Autobots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
  
  Hope for new Autobots in Transformers 3.
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  August 15, 2009

  JD700

  So the film had its plot holes, but the incredible display of action, CGI and acting made this film suberb, i really enjoyed this flick and would recommend to almost anyone.
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  July 16, 2009

  tenortank

  Anyone who wants to ditch Micheal Bay after this is just asking for the lack of continuity that has plagued series like Harry Potter and Star Trek. Transformers isn't an Artsie-Fartsie film. It isn't about fantastic acting and metaphors, it's a childs toy cartoon that became a movie. The movie blows your mind, it links in with the origional, and it made a boatload of money because regular people (who don't sit in a dark room analyzing movies all day for lack of a real job) actually went and saw it. The only way we'll get more great sequels is if we let Bay's imagination continue to amaze us.
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  July 6, 2009

  droidmakr

  Anyone remember how many critics tore into Star Wars when it was released. I do. I remember hearing them on TV and reading in the papers about how awful the movie was, and how only the special effects made it worth seeing. Now you’ld be hard pressed to find a critic that would openly admit that he or she hated the film.
  
  Is Revenge of the Fallen on a par with Star Wars? Oh hell no!! But then who cares except the self appointed gardians of what we should and should not enjoy. As is so often the case, the critics are way off base. So far off base in fact that it is shameful. But then this is not the artsie fartsie type of crap that critics always seem to think is so wonderful. Nor is it the kind of left wing propaganda piece that so many of the fools praise and cheer for.
  
  This is purely a fun film, full of fast paced action, and good old fashion, good verses evil, hero stuff. 8^)
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  July 2, 2009

  darklamarsdragoon

  You guys are crazy, I'm not on the bandwagon but dang the movie was good for what it was...if u like love, drama, suspense or westerns this wasn't the movie for u don't complain, i mean really made u laugh and was an action flick , why expect more....you guys find ways to hate on a movie, there were hater on dark knight wtf could u hate on but they found their reasons and ran with em, titanic same story doesn't matter the movie or drama all ya want to do is hate.....but in reality for what its suppose to be transformers is great, and as far as u comic book people, dude there is no way and i mean no way to incorporate every achin detail into a movie i mean come on man, name a movie that can do that.
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  July 2, 2009

  jimkindratiuk

  I think people just need to realize that you don't go to a movie like this to FEEL something, or to have some sort of revelation. Just like the first one, you go to a movie like this to watch giant robots kick the crap out of each other.
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  June 30, 2009

  sanctuarysamurai

  Funny how many people are followers about saying this movie was grate when they really know it could have been allot better. I may be one of few that will speck my voice about how bad the movie was. I grew up with Transformers, watched every cartoon/movie about them. This was a big disappointment. If you like junk and have a low standard then you will like it. watch this http://g4tv.com/videos/39560/The-Real-Transformers-Debate-/
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  June 30, 2009

  belinerg

  It's interesting how so many critics have said so many bad things about this movie, and yet, according to the news (if you want proof, check the links on the right hand side at the bottom), this movie is the second highest grossing movie in it's opening weekend of all time, only barely behind The Dark Knight. And it's expected to be one of only *eight* movies of all time to break the $400 million mark. So, no matter what the flaws were, someone somewhere must have done something right. Either that, or there's only 100 sane people in the world. Get a life people. There's a reason this is classified an Action movie, not a Drama.
  
  And yes, I agree there were a number of flaws. But it was still a good movie. Someone said something about only wanting to see Harry Potter now because of this movie. Talk about flaws? How about completely removing characters that were in *every* book? Every movie has its flaws. What makes a movie good is not a lack of flaws, but how they put it all together.

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