The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room floor while you ponder the propriety of opening a bottle of wine.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2014

Eager to get myself into the right mindset for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I turned to the multiplex patron sitting next to me and politely asked him to slam my head against the forward seatback.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2014

I would like to think that even if I was 14, either in body or spirit, I would still find this film an impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Jun 9, 2014

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 6, 2011

Think of this film as like the first one multiplied by ten. Everything that was good is better and everything that was bad (the relentless stupidity of its story) is worse.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 11, 2009

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

Full Review | Jul 6, 2009

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

Full Review | Jun 29, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is even more spectacular than its predecessor, but spectacle without a decent narrative or interesting characters soon becomes tedious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 28, 2009

Any review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen only needs be one line long. If you liked the first film, you'll like this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2009

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.

Full Review | Jun 26, 2009

The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2009

Transformers: The Revenge of The Fallen is beyond bad, it carves out its own category of godawfulness.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 25, 2009

Michael Bay has learned that action film fans like to see action. He's taken his head out of his keister and his camera out of the Transformers' tailpipes.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 25, 2009

It's as if Bay decided that, after the first film, no more plot was needed. And maybe the target audience won't mind that, but for anyone else the lack of an intelligible plot and interesting characters quickly becomes boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a Big Dumb Object: an action blockbuster so loud, ugly and exhausting that criticism seems beside the point.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2009

I, for one, am not one of the transformed, and the day I have to try and sit through this ungodly mess of a sequel again is the very day I ask to be smacked upside the head by a two-by-four.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 24, 2009

The right notes are struck over and over for the target demo but there's not much for the rest of us. The special effects are no longer quite so special. A fact that doesn't stop Bay from committing more-is-less excesses.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2009

This film is a poster child for the idea that more does not always equal more.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2009

Compared to this sequel, the first Transformers, which was released two years ago, ranks right up there with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2009

Though battles are Transformers' raison d'être, before it's over, Revenge will collapse under the weight of far too many of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2009