Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

[Tyler E. Martin]

I saw it and enjoyed it quite a lot. As with some others here, I did take issue with some of the "humor"--dogs humping and robot testicles are honestly just not funny. Not quite as strong as the first film in terms of story and humor, but it was definitely not bad. I do believe the action was more satisfying this time around. Optimus throwing down with the five Decepticons in the woods was awesome.

[kidnicky]

[Hawanja]

[Brick Side]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Dr Kain]

[howze01]

[RapZiLLa54]

[Benjamin Haines]

I'm going to have to agree with Dr. Kain for once. Megan Fox is nothing special to the eyes.

[Elliot Gay]

Not to mention she's way too thin nowadays.

I dunno, I guess she's hot in the "She has boobs and an ass" sort of way, but she's certainly not the end all be all of attractive stars.

[howze01]

[Foxtrot X-Ray]

[mrbluehair]

[jellydonut25]

So, I went to see this yesterday, and with the flood of negative reviews from people I usually agree with and the mindless praise of people whose opinions I hold about as high as the soles of my shoes, I went in with extraordinarily low expectations.
Probably why I ended up not hating it and enjoying myself for MOST of the time.

It's by no means a good movie, and it's AT LEAST 20 minutes too long, but I was entertained and some of the bad was nowhere near as bad as it'd been built up to be.

The TWINS were nowhere near as bad as I'd thought they would be. Do they admit to not being able to read? Yes, but so does ANOTHER Transformer not 20 seconds later! In fact, if not for some just out-and-out STUPID dialogue (a couple of their lines are cringe-worthy for the pure fact that nobody black or white actually uses those slangs anymore) I don't think I'd have had one problem with them. They were actually not bad when they were picking on Sam's roomate, unfortunately, the 20-30 seconds of them that exists that IS stupid is REALLY stupid and turns them from being decent comic relief into just ANOTHER example of Bay's idiocy.


See a detailed review below:

SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT BWWOOOOP! BWWOOOOP!!!

It starts out with a prologue that IMHO could have used a little more explanation, I mean, the Transformers are on Earth earlier than man has weapons and somehow we were able to drive them away (only to learn at the 2-hour mark of the movie that the civil war started largely due to the stuff happening on earth and it wasnt PEOPLE that drove them away, but other Transformers)

Then there's the scene with finding and destroying a couple Decepticons - ok.

Then we're in Sam's room and while a lot of this is ok-good, I think we all could have done without the inexplicable - allspark gets hot melts through the floor and turns the kitchen into robots scene since it just added more minutes of SFX to the film and helps pad out the running time

I also could have done without 90% of the college scenes since I went to college and I get so SICK of people who dont even come anywhere kind of close to depicting it right. Also, what college is he going to? Model College? come on, throw a fatty or two in there...

Easily could have done without Deceptigirl as well...

Then we move along okay for a while, the Forest Scene was actually REALLY good. Someone FINALLY gets it through their heads that you can have a battle in a forest and it doesn't have to be BORING. Trees can explode just like buildings! (more or less)

Up to this point, we've even avoided the stupid 'hack into government computers with a Mac' crap that we had in the first one. Unfortunately, we get a taste of it with the whole Robowarrior hacking each others websites stuff....

Didnt like Jetfire at all...old men farting humor, eye rollingly dumb...

Then Devastator -- first of all, pointless (megatron or some other one could easily have just blown up the top of the pyramid), second of all, slow moving and non-menacing as a snail, third of all - Decepticles...

I was also disappointed by the worlds longest Egyptian battle scene which did a lot to pad out the running time but very little to pad out the plot in any way...and reminded me a lot of the desert battles from the first film and then the subsequent quick end that the Fallen met...like he gets built up to be this unstoppable menace and then his ass is grass in like a minute and a half...

Why do ALL the primes look alike except Optimus?
Did Bay REALLY think we needed to be reminded that the All-Spark brings stuff to life?
What PURPOSE does angry government representative man serve?

END OF SPOILERS


Bay does little more than pick up a plot point or idea, show us how new and shiny it is and then simply throw it away.
Angry government representative guy is a perfect example of this. He does NOTHING but add running time to a movie that's much too long as it is.

All in all, not as bad as I'd thought it would be, but too long to really be enjoyable, if it clocked in at about 2 hrs I'd have enjoyed it much better

2 outta 5 stars

[The Dark Uniter]

I thought the film was meh at best. I thought the humor was too wild this time around [Robot balls, mom on crack] and the sterotypes of African American are just wrong, I mean they show that even though they're robots that most African Americans can't wait which is not true. I liked the first one better.

[king_ghidorah]

[Rodanex]

[jellydonut25]

[Benjamin Haines]

[kidnicky]

[Hawanja]

[The Dark Uniter]

[Benjamin Haines]

[The Dark Uniter]

Granted I'm sure people seen Jurassic Park as kids but Transformers is something different. It started out as action figures turned anime. Most kids like giant robots fighting each other but the profanity and sexual jokes are for the teenaged audience, not for someone under 13.

[jellydonut25]