Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

[vlad]

saw the movie today with my kid, he loved the robots, I liked the chick :D the Aprilia bike was a strange choice for this movie because it is not street legal as it is a 2 stroke bike intended for track only

[almostM]

Was it too much swearing for the kid? I was like what, this is PG13? Not that I'm complaining.. i saw the hangover the night before, have to say I enjoyed that more. Overall i enjoyed it, some of the best CGI i have seen, and Megan Fox.

[ak-]

Then there's the new girl, the chick that plays the girl/Decepticon trying to fuck/kill Sam.

hahaha, this line made me laugh so hard.

[Chachi]

i'm sure most have seen this but its very fitting

[Hairos E30]

I just saw this movie and i have to say I really enjoyed it. Do you think a part 3 is coming?? Best part was when prime died, cause as he did i turned around(i was in the front) and everybody had a OMG, NOOO, SAD, face on them, it was priceless..

[blueapplesoda]

just saw it at the arclight dome in hollywood. very enjoyable, but so many parts that were just so unnecessary. but enjoyable :D

megan fox+, new girl+ and ...deceptiballs wtf

[BigD]

Awesome review by Ebert, pretty much 100% what I assumed... I'll wait for a good DVD torrent.

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. 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.

The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.

The movie has been signed by Michael Bay. This is the same man who directed "The Rock" in 1996. Now he has made "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Faust made a better deal. This isn't a film so much as a toy tie-in. Children holding a Transformer toy in their hand can invest it with wonder and magic, imagining it doing brave deeds and remaining always their friend. I knew a little boy once who lost his blue toy truck at the movies, and cried as if his heart would break. Such a child might regard "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with fear and dismay.

The human actors are in a witless sitcom part of the time, and lot of the rest of their time is spent running in slo-mo away from explosions, although--hello!--you can't outrun an explosion. They also make speeches like this one by John Turturro: "Oh, no! The machine is buried in the pyramid! If they turn it on, it will destroy the sun! Not on my watch!" The humans, including lots of U.S. troops, shoot at the Transformers a lot, although never in the history of science fiction has an alien been harmed by gunfire.

There are many great-looking babes in the film, who are made up to a flawless perfection and look just like real women, if you are a junior fanboy whose experience of the gender is limited to lad magazines. The two most inexplicable characters are Ron and Judy Witwicky (Kevin Dunn and Julie White), who are the parents of Shia LaBeouf, who Mephistopheles threw in to sweeten the deal. They take their son away to Princeton, apparently a party school, where Judy eats some pot and goes berserk. Later they swoop down out of the sky on Egypt, for reasons the movie doesn't make crystal clear, so they also can run in slo-mo from explosions.

The battle scenes are bewildering. A Bot makes no visual sense anyway, but two or three tangled up together create an incomprehensible confusion. I find it amusing that creatures that can unfold out of a Camaro and stand four stories high do most of their fighting with...fists. Like I say, dumber than a box of staples. They have tiny little heads, although Jetfire® must be made of older models, since he has an aluminum beard.

Aware that this movie opened in England seven hours before Chicago time and the morning papers would be on the streets, after writing the above I looked up the first reviews as a reality check. I was reassured: "Like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan!" (Bradshaw, Guardian); "Sums up everything that is most tedious, crass and despicable about modern Hollywood!" (Tookey, Daily Mail); "A giant, lumbering idiot of a movie!" (Edwards, Daily Mirror). The first American review, Todd Gilchrist of Cinematical, reported that Bay's "ambition runs a mile long and an inch deep," but, in a spirited defense, says "this must be the most movie I have ever experienced." He is bullish on the box office: it "feels destined to be the biggest movie of all time." It’s certainly the biggest something of all time.

[DEV0 E30]

It’s certainly the biggest something of all time.

[Rodoni]

i liked it. I noticed that the robot tearing down the pyramid had balls lol wtf?

Some of the movie had some BS, like when shia,megan, and the other dude were in the car and they got dropped like 150+ feet and all that happened were the airbags deploying...

I didnt like how they over glorified optimus though, and you didnt get to see much of the other autobots fighting like the first one.

The twin robots were hilarious and sam's mom was fucking annoying.

[thereisnoyun]

take out the cheezy "love" story.

take out the parents.

take out the bad jokes.

it would be a much better movie.

[Jand3rson]

Awesome review by Ebert, pretty much 100% what I assumed... I'll wait for a good DVD torrent.

It's people like you that make me hate movie critics even more.

First of all, you say "awesome review". How can you think it's awesome if you haven't even seen the movie? How do you know that what he's saying is true? Because he wrote a whole bunch of funny sarcastic things? I think what you meant to say was "funny review".

Then you say "100% what I assumed". So you assumed what the whole movie was about from a handful of 30-second long TV spots? Then when Ebert, the fat asshole who only gives good reviews to merchant-ivory, romantic comedy, and art-house films, says everything about it sucks, it confirms your assumptions?

You remind me of the people that used to come into the video store I used to work at and rent whatever was new on the shelf. It didn't matter what it was. If Oprah/Rosie/Regis/Ellen said they liked it, it was gold. If Ebert/Shallit/Oprah/Rosie said it was terrible, they would never touch it.

[payney8]

The new chick is from my town cairns australia :D

[BigD]

How can you think it's awesome if you haven't even seen the movie? ... I think what you meant to say was "funny review".

No I meant to say awesome review. It was funny too, which is a subset of awesomeness.

Then when Ebert, the fat asshole who only gives good reviews to merchant-ivory, romantic comedy, and art-house films, says everything about it sucks, it confirms your assumptions?

Actually no he doesn't, and yes so far every movie he's reviewed I've felt the same way. The only thing my opinion differs in sometimes, is whether those feelings result in liking or disliking a movie - which is completely personal. So if based on his thoughts I'm still interested, I know I'll like it (and vice versa) and I haven't been let down.

[Wiglaf]

so which one of you lonely suckers are going to post up screenshots of this chicks ass?



I'll subscribe just in case.

[vlad]

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/celebrities/gallery/1233/megan-fox#photo10