Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

[Highly rated reviewer]

Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen

cant wait for this....awesome 1st one was very well done

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look cool

cant wait to see this cool movie , it looks fab

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[Highly rated reviewer]

The first film was light years better.

I watched the very first showing of this film (19/06/09 at 12.01 am at Leicester freemans park and it is 2hrs 30mins long). I thought this would be just as good as the first film. However, I was in for a nasty surprise. No thanks to the typical american, assenine, puerile idiot michael bay (and equally shia lebouf, who was allowed major influence in the story), this film was peppered with stupidity, immature toilet humour and inconsistent storylines. There was far too much infantile humour which severely handicapped any legitimacy of the plot and sub plot. Furthermore, according to the idiotic t**t michael bay, the creation matrix is used as an ignition key to switch on the 'star harvester' which saps all of the nuclear energy from a star/sun and transform that energy into energon, thus destroying a living planet in the process. WRONG!!!. In the original comic series, the creation matrix never had destructive functions, only life generating abilities. Hence the name 'creation matrix' and NOT 'destruction matrix'. Clearly michael bay and shia lebouf have let their infantile imaginations run amok and have completely rewritten and perverted the original comic stories. They also plagiarised integral components from other films such as as star wars, terminator and even titanic!. Megatron turned out to be an apprentice of the dark side (star wars!!), whose master is one of the original 7 primus autobots. The film is called 'revenge of the fallen' since the dark master betrayed his autobot brethren and was thus banished (star wars again!). There is plagiarism of theological undertones, where Iblis (an angel) was banished from heaven and became satan. The film also plagiarised the terminator cyborgs, since decepticons were able to assume animal and human forms. At the end of the film Optimus Prime gave a speech whilst standing at the stern of a US navy aircraft carrier (reminds me of the scene from Titanic). There was also very little integral performance from the original autobots (Ironhide, Ratchet and Bumblebee). They were used as window dressing. The awesome autobot Sideswipe was sidelined at the expense of the immaturely portrayed twins (mudflap and and skids). Arcee was not one autobot but 3!. In the final fight scene, the six minor autobots were up against 19 decepticons (including megatron and his master), yet the autobots still won!. Prime was killed halfway through the film but was brought back to life by the matrix. Jetfire made a cameo appearance, but was mortally wounded in the final battle, but still donated his life spark to Prime, to bolster his power, so he could take on megatron and his master. Shia lebouf dies but is resurrected (he thinks he is Jesus!). Bad points aside, the film had only 2 assets. First and foremost - Megan Fox was unbelievably sexy (I seriously want to marry her!) and the CGI was fantastic. This film is worth watching just for Megan Fox. However, I do miss the gorgeous blonde analyst from the 1st movie (Maggie Madsen, played by Rachel Taylor). She gave Megan a run for her money. No doubt there will be a 3rd installment in the money making franchise (where quality has clearly gone down the toilet). However, michael bay should be disposed of asap and another writer/director must be allowed to take over and go back to the original comic stories. Bring back all the other original autobots and decepticons (and in their original comic forms as I do not like the new techno spangled robot forms). Overall, michael bay and shia lebouf both deserve to be horse whippped and executed, because they destroyed what could have been a fantastic film (which instead turned out to be a bitter disappointment). Only watch this film if you are looking for mindless action. If you want substance, go see Star Trek, X-men origins and Terminator Salvation (they were far superior, especially Star Trek). Transformers 2 turned out to be a shocking disappointment.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Brilliant but VERY flawed

Who the hell decided it was a good idea to put college humour in a Transformer movie?! I'd like to know so I can hit them with a stick. I mean the first movie had a couple of naff jokes in it, but this is absolutely laced with it. A lot of sexual references, a couple of distasteful 'comedy' moments, too much swearing for the type of film and loads of naff ideas like transformers that fart, a transformer with balls (I kid you not) and a little one that humps the girls leg - I mean c'mon! Who thought up this crap?! I don't wanna say too much, but if you don't like that sort of humour, then you're gonna be disappointed too. Most of the time I did absolutely love this film, but there were quite a few times when I didn't like it at all - never have I had such extremely mixed feelings as I did with this movie. The first film is definitely better and although still not perfect was nowhere near as flawed as this - and I'm no sequel hater. If I love a movie I'm over the moon when they make a sequel as most of the time I love them too. Thankfully the action is superb again and delivers even more than the first film, with much improved camera work so you can tell what's happening much easier and see all the awesome killer attacks in all their glory. And as you'd expect, the movie is chock full of explosive action and robot punch-ups. On it's own, the action is an easy 5 stars. Unfortunately, the comedy hugely lets the film down. If I'd had my way, the first half would have been heavily edited, with almost every scene with the actors in removed. I just kept sitting there thinking 'oh shut the hell up and get back to the action!' It wasn't the cast themselves though, I'm a big fan of Shia - I think he's a fantastic actor and he really throws himself into every scenario. I thought he was great in the first film so I was glad to see him return and of course seeing the sizzlingly hot Megan Fox again was not a bad thing at all. It was their material I didn't like. If I'm totally honest, I'm a bit of a prude and I like my humour mostly clean. But really, I wouldn't have minded the jokes if they had been in the right film. Just not Transformers - it's so out of place it's cringeworthy at times. It's like watching a film that's trying to be a more serious action adventure and switches (or should I say transforms?) to a Transformers college spoof. It's an odd combination that for me, didn't work. I'm not saying a comedy side to this film is a no-no, but had it been done like the Mummy films with family-friendly humour, it would have been much better. In my not so humble opinion. At times, the film feels like it's been made by geniuses with stellar special effects, fantastically choreographed fightscenes and tons of fresh and inventive ideas for the transformers universe. The amount of commitment and passion that's gone into making this is very evident onscreen. But then it also feels like it's been made by idiots with a fairly naff story (not something that usually bothers me, but it is). There are so many directions they could've taken the plot, but instead they went with something quite unadventurous, quite basic and at times quite odd. Not the greatest writing by any means. In all fairness though, this isn't a big issue and could have been ignored had it been the film's only downfall. The script was at times the same unfortunately with some pretty bad lines and amateur writing. And then there's the dumbass humour - that was the worst. Yes I know, I sound like an old whingebag. I really tried to like the film more - I kept telling myself to just stop thinking and enjoy it. But I just could'nt. I couldn't ignore the films flaws. And much as I loved the first movie, I can't help but start to wish someone else had made the Transformers movies. The franchise's true potential just isn't being realised and with this latest effort it's obvious they are taking it in the wrong direction. At the end of day, I still came out of the cinema having thoroughly enjoyed a brilliant thrillride movie with awesome action. And if you like the film's sense of humour, which a lot of people will, then there's really nothing to complain about. Whether it's all to my liking or not, I would never say this is a bad film. It still has a lot to offer, it's pure escapism entertainment and is a genuinely excellent movie at times. Overall, I'd still give it an impressive 4 stars though I reckon G.I. Joe could be the best blockbuster of the summer. Fingers crossed.

Cant please everyone

After reading some of the reviews on here i feel that some people are being a bit harsh. Ok there are a couple of hours that you could probably do without in the film, maybe a couple of robots that you could also do without, but i think you need to remember it is a family film and not designed for true Roboteers who will be offended if it does not match up to the exact detail of their beloved comics.

Whilst watching i have to admit, half way in i was thinking where is this going, whats with all the cheesey toilet humour and whats with these dumbass robots Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee? But a lot of it did have the whole screen laughing out loud and clearly had the desired effect. After i had got over the cheese i sat back and just took in the spectacle that is Transformers 2. You will never see another film quite like it, you can only sit in awe of the CGI and special effects.. All in all i came out of the cinema not feeling like i had sat through 2.5 hours of hell and instead thinking that the good bits out weighed the bad. Make up your own minds a must see..