Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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  November 9, 2009

  evillincoln

  michael bay, stop making movies, please. (Rifttraxed this one)

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  October 25, 2009

  Beefy

  I know a lot of people hated this, but I'm not sure why - it seems to me to be a direct continuation of the first film that addressed the one thing people disliked the most from the first one - NEEDS MORE ROBOTS. Well, this had them, in spades.
  
  Yes, the human plot was stupid to...( read more) downright annoying, two of the robots were nearly/possibly racist, etc. etc. I guess that stuff didn't bother me that much because I expected it to be big and dumb.
  
  I tacked on an extra half star because GOLLY this flick looks fantastic in HD. The special effects teams got the shaft for the work they did on the first flick, and I hope the Oscar folks won't make the same mistake twice. Truly amazing, glorious to see in action. Plus, you can see how heavily caked on Megan Fox's make-up actually was (ugh).
  
  If they have to up the ante again for the third film, what could they possibly do? Unicron? My Blu-Ray player says YES PLEASE.

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  October 23, 2009

  PvtCaboose91

  "Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing."
  

  
  Bigger and more overblown in every aspect (except where it's needed), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen represents Michael Bay at his most unrestrained and confident. Bay and his trio of screenwriters (E

  ...( read more)hren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman) have slathered this sequel with unrelenting excess, particularly dumb humour and an overwhelming amount of CGI. There's no coherent story here - just an arbitrary collection of explosions, robot battles and machismo posturing that's tagged with an awkward conclusion. The endless excitement is downright boring: there's no sense of anticipation, no tension, and no downtime...it's on all the time, like being stuck on a bus with a screaming baby. The movie, all 150 goddamn minutes of it, is just an audio-visual assault on all senses (including common) that mimics storytelling without understanding it. With the keen urge to bypass all traces of logic, reason, character development and depth, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an utter mess of an action opus.
  

  
  Now...the story? Yep, that's horrible as well. Sam Witwicky (LeBeouf) is departing for college, and the Autobots are busily hunting the remaining Decepticons. When Sam conveniently finds a shard of the Allspark in his jumper, his brain is flash-loaded with ancient symbols pertaining to the location of a deadly machine that will let the bad guys destroy our sun (for reasons too stupid to explain here). Megatron (Weaving) is hauled out of his deep sea tomb (where the government dumped him as part of their military strategy to set up the sequel) and revived before being placed in the service of the Fallen - i.e. "The First Decepticon": a being so important that nobody bothered mentioning him in the first film. The plot more or less just has Sam becoming all spastic as the symbols overwhelm his brain while the robots engage in fight sequences. Sam and his pals also meet Agent Simmons (Turturro), and they all travel to Egypt where the pyramids are...because that's what happens when you give $200 million to a bunch of idiots who failed geography, and allow them to make a blockbuster.
  

  
  The straightforward plot is padded out to an unholy two-and-a-half hours, which means the whole thing is packed with dreadful filler. For instance there's a subplot in which Sam and his girlfriend are too nervous to say "I love you" to each other...until, of course, the finale, because that's how it's done in Screenwriting 101. By the time the all-in rumble between the Autobots, Decepticons, Otherbots (?) and the US Army finally arrives, one will be too numbed and fatigued to actually give a damn about how it all ends.
  

  
  The blunders of the first film have been accentuated rather than expunged, while the very limited charms of the predecessor are gone, leaving nothing to recommend. For Revenge of the Fallen, Bay indulges in so much excess that he delivers the cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker's arse. The "money shots all the time" approach robs the action of weight and coherency.
  

  
  For reasons that escape this reviewer's mental perimeter, Bay and his writers place greater emphasis on comedy for this sequel. The dead space between the action is therefore reserved for rear nudity from Turturro, jive-talkin' Autobots (triggering uncomfortable memories of Jar Jar Binks), extended time with Sam's stridently unfunny parents, and a Decepticon spy with leg-humping tendencies. Does the concept of a robot humping a woman's leg seem funny to you at all? Bay seemed to think it was so hilarious that he also threw in two scenes of dogs humping each other as well. Transformer testicles also make an appearance, and there's an exceedingly long gag involving Sam's mother tripping out on pot brownies. And slutty chicks can transform into robots too, because the film patently refuses to make sense. If Bay had another ten million to spend, he probably would've tossed in a musical number as well.
  

  
  When the characters aren't engaging in embarrassingly witless dialogue or doling out tiresome exposition, they're running away from explosions in slow motion (although outrunning an explosion is physically impossible). Meanwhile the "action" is relentless in its monotony. Robots pound on robots, humans launch rockets and missiles at robots (though never in the history of the sci-fi genre has artillery ever actually harmed aliens), robots wipe out humans, etc. This stuff goes on and on - far beyond what's necessary for a brain-dead, CGI-laden motion picture. Worse still, there are over forty Transformers in this film (most are interchangeable cannon fodder). Unfortunately the Transformers are all similar in design, not to mention they're poorly defined and make absolutely no visual sense whatsoever (a car can transform into a robot a few storeys tall?!). Combined with the director's typical hyper editing and close-ups, it's impossible to tell who's who during the battles. Bay is unable to keep his camera still for a second to allow a viewer to actually watch the combat, instead opting for dizzying camera patterns. In the long run the action becomes a nauseating, incomprehensible blur of confusion. It's frustrating and burdensome, and one will struggle to figure out what's happening instead of relaxing and enjoying. Revenge of the Fallen is just sensory white noise that beats its audience into either submission or boredom. It's like watching paint dry while being whacked over the head with a frying pan!
  

  
  Naturally, Bay has less luck with the humans - his characters range from obnoxious to pointless. Every character is a bland cipher who either yells at the top of their lungs or runs away from explosions in slo-mo. Megan Fox's character is particularly superfluous - she serves no purpose in the story, and is there just because she's hot. The camera spends so much time ogling her torso that one will wonder if Bay allowed a 13-year-old boy to operate the camera. At the end of the day, the characters are all just stereotyped caricatures and there's no anchor among them - there are so many characters but no-one is in the centre to root for.
  

  
  The CGI work courtesy of ILM is strangely mixed. On the one hand the facial expressions of the Transformers have more range, but on the other hand the integration with the live-action footage is less smooth and more cartoonish. There's also no sense of physics or gravity to these creations - the giant robots are just tossed around without any weight or inertia.
  

  
  No Bay movie would be complete without the director's disturbing sense of reality. The women are all supermodel hot, and they love to spread their legs for geeks. Minorities are best used as comic relief, and conform to every stereotype imaginable. Oh, and a scene set in a foreign country must depict the country's clichés (just in case the under-titles don't make it clear which country we're in) - snails & mimes in France, and camels in Egypt. And of course, the American Armed Forces are fetishised - the final act more or less serves as an army recruitment commercial.
  

  
  Perhaps more than anything else, Revenge of the Fallen is about Michael Bay's love for Michael Bay. He accomplishes this in countless ways; most overtly by placing a large poster for Bad Boys II in Sam's dorm room, and more subtly (but not really subtle) through visual homages (including a shower of fiery objects destroying buildings in Paris which causes a tower to collapse that's taken directly from Armageddon, as well as the destruction of an aircraft carrier which is an obvious nod to Pearl Harbor).
  

  
  Fans of this woeful picture can only say a couple of things in the film's defence: it's entertaining and the special effects are amazing. But the latter is arguable, and the former is merely a subjective opinion. Every summer blockbuster has big special effects and action...Revenge of the Fallen is just a tired rehash of summer action movie conventions. Why bother?
  

  
  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen perfectly embodies every negative aspect of summer blockbusters. It's a big lumbering idiot of a movie that substitutes noise and movement for any type of emotional connection. Bay simply trudges through his hoary, heavily rehearsed motions of explosions upon explosions, and reduces the globetrotting plotting to a repetitive yawn. It's an unforgivably long, obnoxiously unrewarding and brutally tiring experience. Look, I understand the original Transformers was a colossal box office hit, and this sequel is doing just as well. I also understand there's a market for this sort of brain-dead blockbuster. The Transformers films may be popular, but so is junk food - and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.
  

  
  At one stage John Turturro asks of a Transformer in relation to the current crisis "Beginning. Middle. End. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it." - I'd like to ask the screenwriters the same thing.
  

  
  Oh, and you know what? Michael Jackson saw this movie on opening night. Next day, he was dead. Coincidence?

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  October 21, 2009

  jsd35

  Is this film as bad as the press would have us believe?
  
  Well, It's not good, that's for sure.
  
  It's not as bad as other movies that have been inflicted on me recently, but that alas, doesn't mean that it's any great shakes. It's a bit of a mess - an over-long rambling music vide...( read more)o of noise and effects, strung together by a poorly developed storyline.
  
  There are moments I enjoyed in this - mostly around the character of Jetfire, (who, I like to think, was speaking his opinion about the film as a whole, rather than simpy addressing the characters). The, er, wrecking balls of the Devastator were something of a misfire, but they definitely make wry comment on the rest of the project. And, while I'm not sure the Twins are intentionally racist (no more so than portrayals of rednecks in other movies), they do play overtly to stereotypes and are frankly speaking a total waste of movie time.
  
  Once-in-a-while it leaves you thinking, 'This could be okay...' But nope. Not worth paying good money to see, and it should have been much better developed before set free onto the world.

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  October 19, 2009

  johnd62

  You know what, to a certain degree I don't really need to write a review for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Everything you need to know comes from fans of the film. Amazing film as long as you don't think too hard about it or you know expect anything good but stuff blows ...( read more)up real good. Look I'm all for action films and guilty pleasures but "Revenge of the Fallen" is neither. To call it an example of hollywood at its laziest, dumbest and most soul-sucking would be an insult to everything else in hollywood. I'd like to believe its some evil $250 million budgeted experiment of seeing how far you could push its audience AND still be suckered in.
  Okay so to save you from this horrible fate, I'll debunk every .
  Action scenes: Let me warn you right now, in a 2 and a half hour flick there is about 25, count em' 25 MINUTES of action! So in between the action scene, you have terrible and uncomfortable jokes about everything between sex and drugs and if that is not enough then how about black face and women jokes that would make audiences in the 1950s cringe. (More on that latter.)
  Amazing effects: Look there's a difference between a lot of money and good visual effects. "District 9"= Good visual effects, "Revenge of the Fallen"= expensive effects that still look kind of corny by today's standards. Follow this example and you should be able to understand the difference.
  Megan Fox is mighty pretty: Well my friends I have a new found invention, one where you can enjoy looking at her ass minus the crap acting. Welcome to the wonderful world of internet porn.
  My final point
  Its about time somebody understood D.W Grittifh's message of tolerance: I'm not even going to bother with the sarcasm here. Who the f*ck looked at the script and thought two gold toothed, illiterate and I quote "Jive talking" robot brothers was a good idea... oh that's right we'd be suggesting someone read this script beforehand. Why would anyone have enough respect for the audience to make something worth the $12 during a f*cking recession! My mistake guys, I should have known better.
  To end this review off cause quite frankly I want to get on with my life. I understand that I may be a bit of harsh on people who actually like this film. However remember a year ago and how excited we were that hollywood was finally getting it with "The Dark Knight"? A blockbuster that pushed into the realm of pop culture art. We can still have that and by justifying "Revenge of the Fallen" were saying its okay for studios to walk over us. All I ask is that we all put a effort into proving them wrong again.

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  November 11, 2009

  marsmail1402

  I prepher the 1st one

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  November 11, 2009

  navajah1211

  better than the first

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  November 11, 2009

  hiranizidane

  amazing movie lots of action some course language appropriate for kids over 4 lots of good parts good moral of movie[good messege] that you will want your kid to learn

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  November 11, 2009

  guitargirl4

  I LOOVED this Movie <3

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  November 11, 2009

  petergriatsiotis

  I love this movie. I bought it the sec. it came out. I own both Transformerd

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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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