He will tire of stringing together images that are less a story than a chain of ideas for dorm-room posters. The day will come when jamming together toilet humor, shattering machinery, and near-pornographic worship of American techno-military might will hold no more interest. Hopefully that day will come before Transformers 3: You Remember When We Said This Wasn’t Over, Optimus Prime? Well, We Were Telling the Truth. Anything’s possible. Nobody thought that Woody Allen would ever make a movie outside of New York.
More heavy metal demolition derby than movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes up where the first one left off — probably, it’s difficult to remember. Suffice it to say that the fighting isn’t over yet. The Autobots (the good shape-shifting alien robots) have teamed up with humanity to hunt down what’s left of the Decepticons (the bad robots) with one of those super-cool elite military strike teams where everybody zips around in helicopters and Humvees and gets to bark into radio headsets.
Read the full review by Chris Barsanti at Film Critic.com.
Director: Michael Bay
Producers: Ian Bryce, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy
Screenwriters: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Hugo Weaving, John Turturro, Rainn Wilson, Tyrese Gibson, Isabel Lucas, Peter Cullen, Kevin Dunn, Julie White
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Early Preview in limited release: June 23, 2009
Premiere Date: June 24, 2009 (conventional theaters and IMAX)
FilmCritic Rating = 1.5 out of 5.0 Stars
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THE MOVIE WAS NO GOOD
Soooo….. It’s just like the first movie?
What did this reviewer expect. The first movie was not high-art. It was robot porn. Lot’s of action, little story, and big over-the-top visual effects.
I can’t wait. 😉
i’m catching it this weekend during a short trip up to seattle. let’s see if I agree w/ the general consensus
It was exactly what I expected, robot on robot action. Loved it!
I thought the movie was fine. I enjoyed it immensely. I don’t really understand what people were expecting. Deep storyline, thoughtful characters? It is June and this is a 9 figure blockbuster. Don’t expect artful cinema.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen it was a blockbuster film and Chris Barsanti is on crack.
ThisFanCritic Rating = 10.5 out of 5.0 Stars
Watched the first Michael Bay Transformers again the night before (with an excellent RiffTrax commentary, good job guys!) and there really is no comparison. While the last film had a plot full of holes, bad physics, and often terrible dialogue it was genuinely fun. This recent blockbuster was worse in every category, and the run time of 2:30 nearly put me to sleep. It was crude, boring, and excessive in every way.
The dog got more action than Shia LaBeouf. I can some the movie up with a line from a old song, “Second verse, same as the first.” Wasn’t anything new here, about the same as the first one. Mindless popcorn movie.
Tim
Right idea, wrong song. The line is “Dare to be Stupid”.
I watched the Transformers cartoon version during my childhood days. It is nice to know that good computer graphics brought the Transformers back again. I wish to see more of the Dinobots in action perhaps on another sequel.
It was an entertaining jumble of noise, but nothing else. I’m sure there will be a third movie. One with Unicron, more than likely.
Unicron VS OOmpaLumpa-Bot??