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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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2 star:		(48)
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If your looking for a Oscar caliber film, this isn't it. But if your looking for a fun entertaining time with, hot women, great action and special effects Transformers 2 is the movie for you.

Unlike the reviewers out there I knew what I was getting from this movie. I wasn't expecting wonderful acting or a great story. I was expecting a entertaining fun time and of course Megan Fox.

The Things I liked: 1. The chemistry between all the old actors from the first movie was great. You could tell they were having a good time filming the movie. You could tell by how good a acting job everyone did. I was surprised.

2. The action/special effects: The were both great. I'm glad they got the help of the military again for this movie it added to both the feel and action of the film. All the actors/stunt men did a great job.

Then there was ILM and their special effects of the action and Transformers was superb.

3. Megan Fox: Damn she is hot. What ever flaws this film had she did a great job of distracting me during the movie. I think I might have given this film 4 stars of less if it weren't for her.

The things I didn't like.

1. The Story: This was the worst part of the film. It just made almost no sense. Especially the part about there being a source of energon on Earth, but there was none, so what was the point of building the weapon on Earth when I'm sure they could have done it on any of the other planets.

2. The Transformers: The special effects were great, but there were just way to many characters. The only ones that had any impact for me was Optimas Prime, Bumble Bee, Soundwave(one of my favorite characters for the old show.), Star Scream, Megatron, and Jet Fire(Who I thought was a great character.), the rest were cannon fodder.

Overall: A really good movie worth seeing, but again this is a Michal Bay movie. They same guy who directed Bad Boys 1 and 2, Pearl Harbor, and Armageddon so don't expect a amazing story and great acting worthy of Oscars. Expect a fun time with a bad story, decent to good acting, and great action and special effects.

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.

Say what you will about a Michael Bay movie; I was highly entertained by this one. The special effects are phenomenal, acting great(you have to remember that most of the robot scenes are acted with actors and papercutout on a stick). Bay does a wonderful job integrating the action with his camerawork, it amazes me to this day.
The blu-ray version has colors so vibrant that you believe you are actually there. And the best part is the behind the scenes: methodically showing what went into this movie, which was a lot of hard work.
People bash Michael Bay movies for being vapid. I don't expect to walk out of a movie quoting Kierkegaard; I go to escape reality and immerse myself in pure entertainment. That is what this movie did for me, and the blu-ray package could not have been done any better in my opinion. Worth the money.

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.

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.

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.

I know this isn't gone with the wind but this was a verrrry fun movie with lots of action and great humor. If you liked the first one this is very similar. I think there may be one more sequel left in the story line....I hope.