Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

All Critics (241) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (194) | DVD (3)

It adds up exactly as you'd think if you've seen a moving picture before; the motivations are simple while the laughs pound you about the head and face.

May 6, 2011 Full Review

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

Much of the movie is computer-generated hash, weightless even with nonstop BOOMS and METAL GROANS and THUDS.

July 6, 2009 Full Review | Comments (19)

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

The movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel.

June 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (46)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

It is as if Michael Bay was saying "You think I've blown stuff up before? Ha-ha. Wait till you see this."

June 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (9)

Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

It's confusing and excessive and it just missed the mark completely.

June 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (7)

Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

If it sounds as though the script (credited to Ehren Kruger, Robert Orci, and Alex Kurtzman) was written in serial-novel form during an all-night mescaline bender, well, I have no evidence that it was not.

June 26, 2009 Full Review | Comments (10)

Christopher Orr

The New Republic

Top Critic

Few elements of Fallen are completely odious unto themselves, but rolled together it becomes a wave of inescapable proportions.

January 27, 2013 Full Review

Rob Humanick

House Next Door

Built from the ground up to be a popcorn-devouring, eye-popping, nostalgia-sparking crowd-pleaser.

September 29, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

A minor improvement over its nigh abominable predecessor...

July 15, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

I had a pretty excellent time.

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comments (10)

Dave White

Movies.com

The people Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was made for will like it for what it is. Which is probably the saddest thing about it. As long as you're willing to accept crap, you're not likely to get anything better.

March 21, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Bayformers 2 is a mess of a story loosely glued together with lame jokes, fighting pixels and Megan Fox's ass.

March 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

Revenge of the Fallen ... plays more like Pearl Harbor 2, from the heavy-handed seriousness to the clumsy racial stereotypes (a couple of 'ethnic' robots seem to have walked straight out of the Kirk Lazarus School of Racial Sensitivity).

October 27, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

It's frustrating that if Transformers 2 took itself a little more seriously, it might just have blown audiences away the same way the original did.

April 15, 2010 Full Review | Comments (11)

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Michael Bay knows how to spoil any film he touches, taking an extreme step down from the surprisingly fun original.

April 2, 2010 Full Review | Comments (5)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

with Bay under pressure to squeeze as much content into two and half hours, it was inevitable that some elements of the formula wouldn't work

December 15, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dragan Antulov

Draxblog Movie Reviews

Put Michael Bay behind a camera, and he's going to blow something up. (Blu-ray Edition)

October 20, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

After the first ten minutes, I just...wanted...the...movie...to...end.

October 20, 2009 Full Review | Comments (71)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Violent, crude, pointless sequel just isn't kids' stuff.

October 19, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

James Rocchi

Common Sense Media

A high-octane, 2 1/2 hour diversion certain to stimulate, titillate and satiate the blood and other lusts of the raging-hormone set.

October 15, 2009 Full Review

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

This benighted cacophony is a painful blend of overproduced action and shameless exposition

October 4, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Andrea Chase

Killer Movie Reviews

• 1. Optimus Prime: Earth, birthplace of the human race. A species much like our own, capable of great compassion and great violence. For in our quest to protect the humans, a deeper revelation dawns: our worlds have met before...
  – Submitted by Nick S (4 months ago)
• 1. Megatron: My master, I failed you on Earth. The Allspark is destroyed and without it, our race will perish.
  2. The Fallen: Oh, you much have much to learn, my disciple. The Cube was merely a vessel. Its power, its knowledge, can never be destroyed. It can only transform.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (6 months ago)
• 1. Agent Simmons: I am directly below... enemy scrotum!
  – Submitted by Izaack R (7 months ago)
• 1. Starscream: Not to call you a coward, master, but sometimes, cowards do survive...
  2. Megatron: This isn't over.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (7 months ago)
• 1. Sam Witwicky: Hey, you ever had a song stuck in your head and it's the worst song ever but you cant help to sing it or hum it just repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself. Kitten calendar, kitten calendar, kitten calendar, kitten calendar, kitten calendar, kitten calendar, kitten calendar.
  2. Leo: Dude, what the eff?
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)
• 1. The Fallen: Now I claim your sun.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (9 months ago)