Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

[AndrewBird]

I agree with everything Josh said. Loved the movie. I liked it better than the first actually.

[Jand3rson]

Alright, I'm here.

Saw this at the midnight show last night, and was very, VERY impressed. Just about this whole movie is robot fight sequences, and they're LONG. There are a shitload of new Transformers, on both sides. The twin Autobots were fucking hilarious, I don't care how much of a black stereotype everyone keeps saying they are.

And adding Soundwave to the Decepticon side was AWESOME, even though you don't ever see him fight, he just stays out in space. But he does deploy the jaguar out of his chest, just like the old-school Soundwave. He's also voiced by the original voice actor who did Megatron.

Writing was pretty good. The only really annoying thing was Sam's mom, she was even more irritating than in the first one. There's a scene where she eats a whole bag of weed brownies, and becomes more obnoxious than a 14 year old girl who thinks she's hammered when all you gave her was O'Douls. And John Turturro is back, as a now-disgraced Sector7 agent, and is FUNNY AS HELL. Anyone who really appreciates John Turturro will love his role.

Ok, now onto the bitches. Megan Fox looks as hot as ever, except for when the closeups really focus on the lip job she had in between the first film and this one. Say whatever you want, she looked better without them done, and she kind of looks like a duck in some scenes. But damn, if she doesn't show a lot more skin this time around. Then there's the new girl, the chick that plays the girl/Decepticon trying to fuck/kill Sam. The girl that plays her is SUPER hot, and you get a seriously close-up shot of her lace-panty-clad ass while she's straddling Sam on his bed.

All in all? GO SEE IT. Put your snobby film-school fanboy critiquing aside, leave your over-analytical side at the door, and go have fun watching this movie. It was funny, awesome action, excellent effects, and a good action movie.

Oh, and THE FUCKING CONTSTRUCTICONS are in it!!!

[TDE30]

http://jalopnik.com/5302111/transformers-revenge-of-the-awful/gallery/

...made me lol.

[BeirBrennerE30]

has anyone watched the old original TV show??? The acting and script were terrible in that too. It's robots fighting... thats the plot. People really dont even need to be in the movie. It should just be robots fighting for no particular reason. Thats all Im looking for

[DEV0 E30]

It makes me laugh when critics mash their keyboards on a movie like this.

It's Transformers, if you don't understand, if you are expecting more, and if you're going to complain... then it's not for you.

A spot-on review, IMHO.


The Transformers Sequel Is Loud, Obnoxious, and Loud
By Richard Lawson

It's meant to be loud? Giant robots are fighting. Obnoxious? Yeah it's meant to be.

http://gawker.com/people/rlawson/posts/

Yeah. His other posts are about celebrity gossip that I don't care about, like that Perez Hilton character, thus he loses all credibility to me.

[namsayin]

all i cared about while watching the movie was the drool factor that megan fox had on everyone watching

she sure made a lot of people happy hahaha

all i heard when she showed up on the screen at the beginning on her bike was "OHHHHHHH DAYUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM"

[m3_eater]

A spot-on review, IMHO.


The Transformers Sequel Is Loud, Obnoxious, and Loud
By Richard Lawson


As it lurches toward us, metal gears clanking and whirring like Larry King at a mixer, early reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen come trickling in. The word? Basically it's loud and garish and, worst of all, not fun.

Take Roger Ebert's scathing review for the Chicago Sun-Times:

"If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination."

Oh, sad robot.

Ray Bennett at the Hollywood Reporter is equally dismissive:

"Bay's team of four editors stitch together smashing but meaningless images, though it's as difficult to make out which machine is which as it is to tell what anyone is saying. The noise level — not helped by Steve Jablonsky's relentless score — is super-intense and everyone yells lines at high speed. Because nothing they're saying makes any sense, it's hardly important.

LaBeouf gets little chance to show what charm he might have. Meanwhile, Fox has little to do except look great in a tank top and tight jeans while running in slow motion through flying sand."

Variety and a couple other pubs actually enjoyed the thing, if only for the slickness of the stupidity. But while we're fully expecting the movie to ravage the Fourth of July holiday box office like so many crazed alien robots ravage the lurid curves of Megan Fox, we also wonder how long this dumb-but-bracing genre of summer action pic can last. What with a big, big hit like Star Trek earning glowing notices and being zingy and CGI-packed. Can a schlockist like Michael Bay continue to tread water when more and more talented directors—both visualists and storytellers—successfully raise the bar?

Let's hope not. We mean, watching a toaster come alive and eat Shia LaBeouf may have its place in the world, but it's also nice to at least begin to care about characters and revel in a witty turn of phrase here and there. "Run, oh God, run! The angry space Egyptian robots are coming," barely even counts for camp value these days.

[James Crivellone]

I actually like all the plugs from different companies. Makes the movie a tad more hilarious to me personally.

[Hick]

Sounds lame. Per one of my friends who saw it, it's just loud and has a lot of CGI. Save for Megan Fox, it would be in the same category as Terminator Salvation.

hahaha, THAT movie was the worst crap ive ever seen! i do like the nekid arnold bot

......and GM, and Cisco, etc etc

i thought about listing them all, but i figured it would be a little overwhelming. dont forget the LG plugs

[James Crivellone]

Easily the best movie I've seen all year thus far

[namsayin]

bahaha my bad guys i got back at 3am i was tired :( can a mod change that for me!

[Erick]

CG was cool. plot was awful, they seemed to forget about what the main characters were working towards and plugged in a super long commercial for the US Military.

......and GM, and Cisco, etc etc

CG = very cool
Megan Fox = very cool
Everything else = not so much

[Alkasquawlik]

i thought it was Revenge of the Fallen?

It is Revenge of the Fallen.
OP fails.

[mattdk318i]

i thought it was Revenge of the Fallen?

[blunttech]

I disagree.

and that is why you are wrong