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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (with Limited Edition Steelbook Packaging)

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So i grew up on transformers and of course im going to love the movie... but regardless of that.. this movie has amazing graphics, storyline is awesome.. and you can trust me.. you will have moments of outright laughter.. I bought it and have watched it on more than one occasion... very enjoyable.. and this is safe for the majority of ages to watch in my opnion.

This movie was freaking awesome and totally delivered, to those who
knocked this movie "give me a break, giant Transforming robots, what did they expect a Kurosawa movie?, and Shakspearane actors.
Phenomenal special effects great script, "again to those who dissed the dialogue" that is how people really speak so get a clue.
Worth every penny hope there will be more to come.
And yeah I like the classics too, but now and again everyone needs mindless special effects and total mayhem.

The first Transformers movie was great! And the second?

Bigger, longer, louder, more robots, more action, more Megan Fox, more CGI ... so how can you end up with a worse movie than the original?

Well, it happened, as Michael Bay definitely went out of control here. What are the problems with this movie?

Characters - When John Turturro returns and actually becomes one of the more sympathetic characters in the movie, that tells you just how packed the script is with truly annoying characters. Ramon Rodriguez led the list for Character-Who-I-Most-Wanted-to-See-Gutted-By-Megatron. Isabel Lucas, the supposed Aussie hottie and rival to Megan Fox, was OMG some wierd orange shade of tan... NOT attractive, gross, really. Skids and Mudflap... WTF? Oh yeah, for sure there were strong racist overtones here in their jive-talking and monkey-ghetto appearance, but what was worse was that they were just sooooo Jar-Jar Binks acid-on-the-nerves annoying.

The list of characters in the "Needs To Be Killed by Megatron Real Soon" category is just too long for this movie to be enjoyable.

Robots, you want more giant robots? Way too many giant robots - couldn't hardly tell who was who in all the fighting, couldn't even see what all the fighting moves were... lots of robot deathblows, the CGI was great, but the images were so densely packed with detail that they blurred in the mind - way, way Too Much Information!!! Can we get subtitles for the action sequences on the DVD/Blu-Ray?

More TMI - was it me, or did the dialogue sound compressed and speeded up? Several times, it sounded like Sam and Mikaela were talking to each other at Fedex speeds - no they didn't sound like chipmunks, but it is possible to speed up the soundtrack and lower the tonal frequencies to normal. Maybe this was the only way Michael Bay could get the movie to come in at only 2-1/2 hours instead of four hours.

Plot... well, seriously, after all the critics decrying the lack of any plot in this movie, I came away thinking that this problem with the movie was way overblown compared to all of its other problems. I don't know about you, but I didn't come into this movie expecting any plot. This is after all a movie about giant robots fighting each other.

But somehow or another, in the first movie, we were made to care more about these robots, and about the humans they were fighting over. That was what made the first Transformers so enjoyable. All of that went out the window in this movie. As you sit through this very long second movie in the Transformers franchise, you begin to wish that Megatron could hurry up and gut everybody in the movie....

...Except for Megan Fox of course. Fox manages to appear even more lovely in this film than the first, the only thing improved from the first movie...

Overall, though, by piling in an excess of almost everything except sympathetic characters into this movie, Michael Bay has made this movie into an example of information overload, and it becomes just a tedious exercise for the eyes.

This is the follow up to the great movie that came out in 2007. This continues the story, and adds a ton of more robots and action than the first movie had. It still has the amazing CG from the first film, but adds bigger and more detailed robots that were made for IMAX. This movie adds what the first one did great, and adds a ton of more it to the second film.

You have the great sound track from the movie and add some creepier Decepticon music to the film. The great main theme is still playing throughout the movie, and even the bring the rain theme is back in this film, but not as much. Explosion sound effects are even bigger than before, and the transformers have unique sounds to their weapons; which is a mix between bullet fire and electronic based weapon firing.

Graphics are just as amazing as the first movie was, but you also have gigantic transformers in this movie. Even if you have the larger than life transformers, you still feel like they fit in and don't seem like they are CGI at all. A few scenes have the entire area with CG only, and it's done so well I didn't even realize it until they tell you about them in the special features. The explosions are still just as great as the first, with even larger explosions in this movie.

The military actions are just like the first movie, and you can really tell they are coordinated professionally, with a ton of real life AC130's and Blackhawks to just name a few. It's really cool to see real life military tactics, with them doing their own thing and supporting the Autobots.

I personally don't think that the controversy surrounding the movie is true at all. You have these two brother Autobots that are accused of making fun of black people. I personally don't believe this because white people try and talk gangster out there, and you can't tell me that they could also be hillbillies instead of being black. Even in a race of super advanced robots you will have the lemons in the group, and I don't think its offensive to anyone, just humorous events.

Also this movie does have crude humor, and I really think it's funny. Some people have complained that this is a family movie and that they didn't expect to hear some of the humor when they brought their children to it. Ok, this movie is rated PG-13 and it clearly says crude humor on it, and I believe that is the parents responsibility if they think their child is ready for that or not, this is why it doesn't factor into my score.

The special features are great; I mean it's around three hours total of special features. They talk about the history of the transformers franchise, and so much more. It's pretty cool hearing about how they made the amazing robots in the film. Also on top of all the special features in the second disk, you have a full audio commentary with Michael Bay and the writers.

Overall I say you should buy this movie. This is how you should do a sequel: They took what made the first movie great, and made it even better.

~Written: August, 2010

Positives:
* Even better story than the first
* Bigger and even more kick-ass robots
* Same great soundtrack with some changes
* Awesome Special effects
Negatives:
* Nothing, just like the first

very good! at least worth watching again and again, just didnt like the extra useless cast the movie had. there was some comic relief in the movie that wasnt needed

I don't like the prices for blue ray dvds but there are certain movies that I don't mind paying that extra price for. This is definitely one of them.

I keep seeing how everyone seems to dislike this movie. But it wasn't all that bad. I mean sure there are some uncomfortable parts in the movie where you wonder why they had it in there. Or parts where they could have done it better and or differently. Though, knowing the fact that the writers strike did not help the movie, and Michael Bay, at all plays a big part. As he said he was "walking on to the set with no script." And knowing that they did not finish the movie until a couple of hours before the world premire. Talk about cutting it close! Now really think about it, if you were in this same situation as Michael Bay, how would the movie turn out? I think Michael did a good job!

The movie has it's good and suprising moments like, for example, the forest battle. I know I was cheering on Optimus and was happy he was kicking butt and then the suprise came. I remember my mouth dropped. The story between Optimus and Sam and is actually interesting. It makes you think if you were in Sam's shoes what would you decide on. Me, personally, would go and help Optimus but some may think other wise. Another touching part is where Sam and the gang were in the tomb of the primes and were the matrix turned into dust knowing that it was the only way to bring back Optimus to life.

I know some people out there are confused on why the fallen wanted to destroy the Earth's sun. Simple, he used the machine to drain the sun for it's energy in order to convert it to energon so then they can create more lives. They do explain it in the movie.

All in all I think if you give another chance you would see it differently. I know it happened to me. I, too, did not like this movie compared to the first, but after finding out the "behind the scenes" details and watching it again, it's actually an entertaining movie.

Fast action, sharp (computer-generated) graphics, explosive but clear surround sound makes this an ideal blu-ray disc to enjoy/showcase on your home theater system. The plot of movie itself is OK - not as good as the first one.

outstanding movie love the action and the u.s miliatary planes and its involement in the whole movie was some great action keep up the good work.

So, I am one of the few people who grew up watching the Transformers cartoons in the 80's and actually liked the first live-action movie in this series. I bought this sequel without seeing it at the theater despite all the criticism I'd read. Well, I have to say that they made some very poor decisions in the writing department. Whereas with the first movie it was fairly safe to have our young son watch this movie is riddled with out-of-place, awkward and unnecessary expletives that seem like they were added to the script just for the sake of having them. I am not a prude in any sense but even I was put off by the very awkward inclusion of expletives. On top of that are the stereotypical and racially insensitive new Autobot twins. Even still Optimus Prime says things that seem very out of character. Overall, the movie is OK with nice special effects and a few new characters but the movie is not anywhere near on par with the first film in the story or dialogue departments. Unfortunately, this is not a movie I see myself watching repeatedly as I did with the first film.