Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 240
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 192
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 35
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 3,840,705
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Two years after saving the world with the Autobots, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is away at college when an ancient Decepticon named "The Fallen" returns to Earth on a mission of vengeance. With the Allspark destroyed, the Autobots lose all hope of returning to their home planet of Cybertron, and begin working with an elite military known as NEST to hunt down any remaining Decepticons. But even as they fight for humanity alongside Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and USAF Master Sergeant Epps (Tyrese
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Cast
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Shia LaBeouf
Sam Witwicky -
Megan Fox
Mikaela Banes -
Josh Duhamel
Major Lennox -
Tyrese Gibson
USAF Tech Sergeant Epps -
Kevin Dunn
Ron Witwicky -
Peter Cullen
Optimus Prime -
Julie White
Judy Witwicky -
Ramon Rodriguez
Leo -
Isabel Lucas
Alice -
John Turturro
Agent Simmons -
John Benjamin Hickey
NSA Advisor Theodore Ga... -
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Hugo Weaving
Megatron -
Tony Todd
The Fallen -
Charlie Adler
Starscream -
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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.
Much of the movie is computer-generated hash, weightless even with nonstop BOOMS and METAL GROANS and THUDS.
The movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel.
It is as if Michael Bay was saying "You think I've blown stuff up before? Ha-ha. Wait till you see this."
It's confusing and excessive and it just missed the mark completely.
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.
Few elements of Fallen are completely odious unto themselves, but rolled together it becomes a wave of inescapable proportions.
Built from the ground up to be a popcorn-devouring, eye-popping, nostalgia-sparking crowd-pleaser.
A minor improvement over its nigh abominable predecessor...
I had a pretty excellent time.
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.
Bayformers 2 is a mess of a story loosely glued together with lame jokes, fighting pixels and Megan Fox's ass.
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).
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.
Michael Bay knows how to spoil any film he touches, taking an extreme step down from the surprisingly fun original.
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
Put Michael Bay behind a camera, and he's going to blow something up. (Blu-ray Edition)
After the first ten minutes, I just...wanted...the...movie...to...end.
Violent, crude, pointless sequel just isn't kids' stuff.
A high-octane, 2 1/2 hour diversion certain to stimulate, titillate and satiate the blood and other lusts of the raging-hormone set.
This benighted cacophony is a painful blend of overproduced action and shameless exposition
Audience Reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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- 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...
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- Megatron: My master, I failed you on Earth. The Allspark is destroyed and without it, our race will perish.
- 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.
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- Agent Simmons: I am directly below... enemy scrotum!
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- Starscream: Not to call you a coward, master, but sometimes, cowards do survive...
- Megatron: This isn't over.
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- 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.
- Leo: Dude, what the eff?
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- The Fallen: Now I claim your sun.
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Foreign Titles
- Transformers 2: La revanche (FR)
- Transformers 2: La venganza de los caídos (ES)










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