Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Review

Telegraph(UK) ^ | June 18, 2009

[Steelfish]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, review

Big, dumb and loud, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is cinema on steroids.

By Tim Robey 18 Jun 2009

Even conceiving of a movie bigger, dumber and louder than the first Transformers would be beyond most filmmakers, but not Michael Bay. Bay’s is a cinema on steroids, pursuing a body-builder’s dream of eternal growth -- it must bulge constantly outward, veins popping like twigs from its ever-flexed biceps.

Eternal growth is his box-office aim too, and with this franchise, likely to beat all comers at the tills this summer, he may just have found it. Sadly, this doesn’t mean Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is any good, exactly. It’s just big.

A key sequence in this musclebound sequel illustrates Bay’s size-queen philosophy. One behemoth of a vehicle starts to change into a robot, bolts on a concrete mixer and a few outlying trucks, and they all whirr and clank upwards to form an uber-uber-uber-robot, a Godzilla of robots, which proceeds to vacuum up half the Middle East. You think: great special effects, but also: why?

There’s never any real why, for all the tranches of brain-rotting exposition about a Decepticon comeback and some energy-containing key called “The Matrix of Leadership” buried near the Pyramids. Only in a Bay film is a key also a matrix, and the comic relief an extra reason to pack paracetamol.

[KoRn]

Since a film critic hates it, the movie must be pretty good. I might go watch it.

[GSP.FAN]

Tut Tut no pics...

[ak267]

I’m sorry it’s not your cup of tea dear boy, but we barbarians will somehow manage.

[counterpunch]

A key sequence in this musclebound sequel illustrates Bay’s size-queen philosophy. One behemoth of a vehicle starts to change into a robot, bolts on a concrete mixer and a few outlying trucks, and they all whirr and clank upwards to form an uber-uber-uber-robot, a Godzilla of robots

This reviewer is the one who is dumb.
That's Devestator and has been part of the Transformers universe for more than 25 years.




 

[max americana]

The critic talks like every film should be Citizen Kane but someone should tell this elitist fool, it’s a summer movie..it’s supposed to be big. I will watch it because everyone knows what they’re paying for..robots and half-naked Megan Fox.

[willgolfforfood]

So the reviewer is saying it's not very realistic. THANKS FOR SPOILING IT, you creep.

Now it will probably seem like some inane piece of summer entertainment fluff, instead of the thoughtful documentary I'd been expecting after seeing the trailers.

Sheeeeeeesh!!

[KoRn]

"The critic talks like every film should be Citizen Kane"

I was forced to watch that movie for a class in college. I hated every minute of it.

"it’s a summer movie."

Exactly. Summer movies aren't made to be cinematic masterpieces. They are 'fun' movies.

[aft_lizard]

Wow.

At the very least this reviewer could have done is to investigate the transformers so as to not come off as some stuck up movie critic who doesn’t know that the contructicons do latch on to each other and the matrix of leadership is a key(although it sounds like it isn’t part of Optimus Prime) instead of claiming as if they are some machination of Bey’s imagination.

[max americana]

> Exactly. Summer movies aren’t made to be cinematic masterpieces. They are ‘fun’ movies.<

Yep. That’s why I hate movie critics. They get a free DVD to watch, type their “review”, try to sound “intelligent’ and get paid for it. It’s a bull-sh*t job.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

She’s trailer park trash. The tats are the dead give away.

[Anti-Kenyan]

Damn I thought the movie was a documentary. You mean to tell me the transformers are fake? Damn, all of this time I assumed they were real. Gosh, my dreams have been crushed, this is nothing but fiction.....

[GSP.FAN]

I know that makes her more yummy..

[Blood of Tyrants]

I agree. If the critics love it, I avoid it like the plague.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I agree. If the critics love it, I avoid it like the plague. For example, the critics just loved Brokeback Mountain. I can think of nothing I would less like to watch than a bro-mance between two sheep herding rump rangers.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’d hit it. That is, if I weren’t married. (Mrs. BoT might object.)

[Blood of Tyrants]

You could always watch “An Inconvenient Truth” while hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. (Hint, use the blunt end, the claws make you so bloody that you have to stop the movie just to sop up the mess.)

[TheWriterTX]

Hope you're not in fly-over country, my friend. She called for all the racist, bible loving rednecks in middle America to be exterminated.

She might be good for eye candy, but she won't get a dime of my family's money.

Becasue of her, we're missing this film.

[Tzimisce]

Meh...

[Renderofveils]

Hope you're not in fly-over country, my friend. She called for all the racist, bible loving rednecks in middle America to be exterminated.

Following the mantra of the girls that like bad boys...

...I think I can change her! ;)