Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review

I'm rather puzzled by the response to Transformers 2; the range of reactions I have personally heard from movie goers ranges from “Oh my god, so much better than the first” to “terrible, boring and cheesy sex jokes.”

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen begins not long after the first ends. Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) has graduated and is still with super hottie Mikaela Barnes (Megan Fox) with college on the horizon. At the same time the Transformers are partnered with Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel ) and his team hunting the hidden Decepticons led by Starscream and Megatron is still at the bottom of the ocean.

The story centers on an ancient Prime known as The Fallen, so named for betraying the other Primes and trying to destroy a living planet (Earth). Sacrificing their lives to save a planet of humans they don’t even know, they thwart the evil ones plot. A little bit biblical perhaps, but it works.

His despicable and dastardly deeds stymied, The Fallen escapes to another world to plan his revenge. I find it odd that he just didn’t take over the Earth with superior force, but oh well it was unclear whether there were forces to stop him. The Fallen gathers minions, including the Decepticons, and plans for revenge…again not sure who against because the Primes that died to save humankind are gone and humans are certainly no threat. The idea is to find the missing shard of the Allspark to resurrect Megatron and continue with the Fallen’s evil plot: destroying Earth’s sun and capturing the energy released, whew.

Yes, that’s what the movie was like for me, too much, too quick and too confusing. I liked the film but I found it impossible keeping up with the characters, plot and even the story. Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen is fun, funny and action packed, only some of the jokes are cheap sex jokes (I can only take so much weird humping), the action is often too fast and furious and the characters even more over the top and silly than the original and there are reefer brownies. While a few reefer brownies can help my perspective, they seem a little unneeded when the character is goofy enough already. I love goofy intelligent humor, but the key word is intelligent.

Actually I’m not going to trash the film because I was very entertained and, with the exception of some big gaps that were distracting, I had fun. Don’t expect too much, this was clearly a blockbuster made to awe the audience with CGI, but there was plenty of humor and character too, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is going to well at box office and it must be seen in the theatre it would lose impact at home.

Rating 3 stars out of 5