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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.
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
Watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like going to one of those chain all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants: The potatoes may be overbaked, the green beans limp and the beef lukewarm, but no way are you walking out of there hungry.
Clocking in at almost 2 1/2 hours, Revenge of the Fallen feels interminable.
"Megan Fox is the real reason for the popularity of the Transformers series."
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