Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen

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Okay you don’t have to tell me I know that isn’t the real title I’m simply trying to inform anyone who reads this that this is in fact the second one and they haven’t missed any of the ” Transformers Trilogy”. First off I would like to ask a question why does Michael Bay of all directors have to be the one making these movies?! WHY?! And second I had been hoping the editor of this site was going to beat me on putting a review up for this movie before me but oh well.

Transformers, have actually been around since 1984 when the Japan toy company, Takara Tomy, sold the distribution rights to the American toy company Hasbro. Over nearly the first 23 years of the “Robots in Disguise” there were various new lines of the popular toys coming out very often with the main premise of the “Autobots” vs the “Decepticons” fighting each other constantly with the “Autobots” trying to protect the human race. New twists were being constantly added and eventually the robots appeared on a TV show that aired 16 episodes. Soon after “The Transformers: The Movie”, an animated film, came out. Then less than 2 years ago Michael Bay debuted a live-action version of the robots fighting each other on Earth. The main plot (SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!) was that years ago one Archibald Witwicky in the 19th century was attempting to reach the Arctic Circle. He stumbled upon the frozen leader of the “Decepticons”, “Megatron”. “Megatron” had traveled to Earth looking for “The Cube” aka “The All Spark” an energy source that had created him and his species which had lived on the planet “Cybertron” until a civil war between the “Autobots” and the “Decepticons” destroyed the planet. Jump forward to the year 2007 and we find Sam Witwicky, played by Shia Lebouf, the descendant of Archibald. Sam posses his great-great grandfather’s glasses which the coordinates of “The Cube” are engraved on the lenses. To make an over two hour long story short both the “Autobots” and the “Decepticons” race to find Sam and his glasses and the story ends with Sam killing the now thawed Megatron by shoving “The Cube” into his “spark”, aka heart, and “The Cube” being raw power kills “Megatron”. “Optimus Prime” and the remaining “Autobots” vow to remain on Earth to protect the humans and Sam gets the girl, Mikaela Banes, played by the very attractive Megan Fox. Though I am leaving out many important characters I wish not to ramble when you can easily see the film yourself and I am not reviewing that film right now but perhaps later.

Now onto the sequel, the main premise of the movie which I will not spoil is basically the “Decepticons” getting back at the “Autobots”(and they get big-time payback) and the revenge of the original “Decepticon” name “The Fallen”. Yes you read that right it isn’t “Megatron” it is one ‘Decepticon” named “The Fallen” who was once on Earth in 17,000 B.C. and has a history with “The Primes”, “Optimus’” ancestors. The first half of the movie is about, more “Transformer” history, revenge, suffering, and unveiling, and I will say nothing more. The other half is yet another search for an ancient object of power, which can be seen in one of the trailers.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Final Official Trailer

Yeah, you know that's a badass picture.

In general the film was a mash of somewhat repetitive battles and explosions, and two-thirds of the plot being correlative to the first film.

 KABOOM!!! I’m guessing this was one of the more expensive scenes.

Yet Bay tried to bring in many new characters to capture the audience that we get to know slightly but they sadly take away from the characters that audiences got to know and love from the first film. One character that Bay did introduce this film had audiences laughing and people nearly immediately liked him, then POOF! He disappears at one point and is never to be seen again the rest of the film with no explanation. So at this point I must summarize what i think and say number one Bay was feeling cocky and severly blew it in way too many scenes. He did very well with the couple scenes with Mikaela and Sam to calm down the audience between action sequences and several scenes that had half the audiences balwing their eyes out, even some guys! Number two, they gave Bay way to big of budget that he didn’t need, 190 million dollars, which I think took away from what could had been a genuinely excellent sequel. Finally if Michael Bay ever reads this, dude get the next one rated R because you had a lot of language in the first half of the movie for a PG-13 rating and get Megan Fox naked in it cause she will do it, 90% sure.

Thanks for reading.