 | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Action & Adventure |
'Transformers' gives it all. All the things you know about this movie is right here; big action & robots. And all the things you know about Michael Bay is here as well; Bad Jokes & lots, I mean, lots of camera angles.
This picks up shortly where it left of 2 years ago. Sam Witwicky prepares to go to college & trying hard to live life without his robot guardian Bumble Bee. Mikaela Barnes stays to manage with her father's auto repair garage. All the while, a Decepticon Emperor Palpatine-like-Elder called 'TheFallen' already plans to destroy planet Earth with little what's left from the All Spark energon cube. This brings Megatron reprising his chaotic behavior with a new foe that the Autobots will have a difficult time to defeat.
All cast members return with little addition from Ramon Rodriguez, who plays Sam's conspiracy-obsessed college roommate Leo, and The Office's Rainn Wilson, who enjoys a notable cameo as a pompous physics professor. Several new Autobots are introduced. Mudflap and Skids, a pair of jive-talking, ceaselessly annoying hatchbacks, Jolt, a Chevy Volt. Sideswipe, a silver Corvette, and Jetfire, an elderly Decepticon turncoat who walks with a cane, speaks with an English accent and transforms into an SR-71 Blackbird. Additions to Decepticons. The Fallen, who we learn is the Decepticons' real head honcho. Soundwave, a communications specialist who sinks his tentacles into a satellite and spies on us from above. Ravage, a panther-like creature. Wheelie, a radio-controlled truck who talks like Joe Pesci. The Doctor, a sort of mad scientist who speaks with a German accent, and the Constructicons, a group of construction vehicles that fuse together to form a massive, four-legged beast.
No action filmmaker does over the top scenes better than Michael Bay. In all of his movies, you can always see circular-camera angles. But in this sequel, it's a bit overly done. I have to admit that the CGI work on this film makes the last one look like it was designed on a x86 based system. This may be a pitfall for both writers Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci, whose past accolades include Ring 2, Transformers (2007), Mission Impossible III, The Legend of Zorro, Reindeer Games, Arlington Road. All had their fair share of shallow plots but at least their past writing efforts showed dialogue compared to Revenge of the Fallen. Just as the action and visual effects are beefed up for the sequel, the bad jokes and cringe-worthy dialogue are as well. Highlights include two dogs humping, John Turturro in a thong, a robot humping Megan Fox's leg, a sequence involving Sam's stoned mom, and a glimpse of a very large pair of testicles on one very large Decepticon. That one will likely go down as the "nipple-on-the-Batsuit" moment for the Transformers franchise.
But with all of its low points, this is would still be classified as a highly entertaining action movie for the year 2009. 
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