Here we go.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

A lot of people have been waiting for my 2 cents on this one. Well lets recap TF1.

TF1 was a horrid movie which destroyed several childhood dreams of playing with transformers and watching the old movie (which I saw in the theatre and loved). The movie was just bad. Bad as a transformers movie and bad as a movie. You couldn’t see the action (2 heaps of scrap metal rolling down a hill with a zoomed in camera), there was no story (something about getting glasses and all sparks that turn mountain dew machines and nokia phones into robots), and the plot was made up of bad jokes (about masturbation), Megan Fox bending over (serves no purpose when you can download every picture of her ever taken), and Optimus Prime stepping on a fountain and saying “My bad.” 1/5 (it didn’t get zero cause Peter Cullen is the best!)

Well, for ROTF we got zoomed out fights (and more of them) A story! (the TF’s require energon to function and decide to absorb energy from suns – but not from systems that need the sun to sustain life – the fallen doesn’t care about humanity so he will destroy us for more energon anyway. – hey it’s not great but at least its story line). And we get better plot – one scene has just the ROBOTS talking! The cheap jokes are still present – worse than part one, but are mostly in the beginning hour. If you can survive the horrid jokes of the 1st hour you may enjoy this – its not so bad cause after every bad joke Optimus prime does something wicked! Megatron does WAY MORE, and the Fallen is a cool villain. Plus Prime gets an upgrade that has to be seen to be believed.

Some of the smaller robots were really bad, and the pretender was utterly pointless. Megan Fox was actually ok! Although I didn’t think making her orange and red with makeup was needed (her face was literally orange). But she wasn’t annoying – that’s the key here. Of course they inserted an annoying sidekick – why I don’t know. If he wasn’t in the film it would’ve been better. Then there are Skids and Mudflap – terrible. Really bad inventions, I wish they had died.

As a transformers movie, its still not that great. But this movie featured more of the TFs doing stuff….if we keep on this route, maybe by part 4 or 5 we will get a perfect TF MOVIE! If I take this existing movie – not me making one, I can take this 2.5 hours movie and re-edit it to a 100 min movie it would be pretty darn cool. It still wouldn’t bet transformers, but I think it would have been much better.

Anything involving the big robots was wicked. Anything involving the humans and small robots was bad. In some cases, REALLY BAD (I would edit those scenes out). But John Turturo was back and I like him as an actor and he didn’t get pissed on and was actually helpful!

The action scenes are a wonder I must say. Really awesome stuff, but the designs of the TFs are too complex so in some parts you still cant tell what is happening, but its WAY better than part one.

3.5/5

(If you don’t know about TF, then you may rate this higher, like 4/5, but I cannot see anyone giving more than that based on the horrid plotting of the first hour and the extended scenes that really needed to be trimmed.)

If you have a bluray – this may be one to buy. Good sound and music.

J-Man.