I found the movie to be extremely corny, with the two main characters and their romance, the relationship between Optimus and Megatron, and just general dialog was annoying because it was so freaking corny.

 

 

 

Sam's mother though...that was funny, but it was trying to modernize and bring in a sense of comical relief that wasn't needed, and definitely was irritating and a slap in the face to the series.

 

 

 

One thing I was depressed about though, was the lack of explosions...like, sure, 2-3 second explosions but not really epic explosions as in previous MB movies.

 

 

 

It was a good pure action movie, but really anyone looking for that deep storyline and personal personas presented in the original series isn't going to find it and be happy.

 

 

 

Action Movie: 7/10; Compared to other action movies, this was pretty good.

 

 

 

Regular Movie: Fail.

 

 

 

And Megan Fox is a terrible, TERRIBLE actor.

I thought Transformers was based on a toy not a comic book?

 

 

 

I think it was a toy, and a cartoon series. 80's cartoon anyway. I guess they have had a couple new versions of it over the years that have all bombed.

Some people don't specifically go to movies for the experience, they go for a deep experience.

 

And those people generally don't go watch movie adaptions of comic books..

 

 

 

Wasn't too bad. Aside from the excessive fan-service and the fact that sitting in the third row from the front meant every single action scene gave me a headache. I don't think I'd really watch it again though..

But, once again, this movie has no excuse for being so shallow. It is not totally based on a comic or TV show. I know Sam was not in any of the previous Transformers stuff. They are just using the Transformers characters in their own story.

 

 

 

I do not always complain about shallow story, I enjoy superhero movie, comic movies, but this ones story was so shallow...that is probably why we were subjected to a 30 minute scene of nothing but explosions and transformers killing each other. The movie could have done a lot more, but it seemed like they stretched it to it's limit, it could have probably been quite a bit shorter if it didn't add in all the unnecessary fan service, jokes, fighting.

 

 

 

Apparently nobody has really seen a comic book movie lately though, because the new adult superhero movies are crazy deep. Dark Knight, Watchmen. Even then I enjoy comic book stories, even if they are a bit shallow. This one though had that sense of been there done that, and was predictable. At least a lot of comic book stories don't have a plot where you can go "Yeah, this will happen, and this."

I thought Transformers was based on a toy not a comic book?

 

I think it was a comic book, then a toy, then an animated series, then a movie, then several new animated series' and comic books and now 2 new movies.

 

 

 

Or something like that.

I saw it today and don't get why people are complaining about it, its a film about robots that turn into cars and vice versa, fighting another load of robots that can turn into almost anything, made by Michael bay, how can you expect much more?

 

 

 

Its a film that is never going to stand up to critics, but is definately a fan favorite for being pure entertainment.

 

 

 

 

 

[hide=Spoiler]I guess there will be a prequil as megatron was still alive at the end?[/hide]

I very much enjoyed the movie. I never grew up with "Transformers" So much as "Beast Wars" (An animal version of Transformers in the same graphics as reboot), but these two movies were pretty much all that I think there could be expected. Robots fighting, with a whole plot based on the past. Although the whole fallen thing was a bit "iffy" in terms of plot, it still worked, and especially when it came to the matrix and the primes.

 

 

 

The only single disappointment I have with the movies so far is with Optimus Prime. He himself isn't represented as the whole hearted and thoughtful leader that I grew up to know.

I can't believe all the people bashing this movie. My friend and I saw it yesterday and thought it was great. Although a few things were left unanswered, it was well worth the money and time.

I thought it was great. I saw it for the second time today.

I saw it last night, and it was a great movie.

megan fox is one of the hottest girls out there no question about it.

 

transformers 2 was a KICK-[wagon] movie.

 

Great fight scenes, and just all around good movie.

 

plot was a little lacking though.

Hm...apparently noone but me and Roger Ebert found it terrible. And every other reviewer on Earth.

 

 

 

I still stand that this movie was not very good, and because I can, here is Roger Ebert's amazing review:

 

 

 

From: Rogerebert.com

 

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

 

 

 

The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.

 

 

 

The movie has been signed by Michael Bay. This is the same man who directed "The Rock" in 1996. Now he has made "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Faust made a better deal. This isn't a film so much as a toy tie-in. Children holding a Transformer toy in their hand can invest it with wonder and magic, imagining it doing brave deeds and remaining always their friend. I knew a little boy once who lost his blue toy truck at the movies, and cried as if his heart would break. Such a child might regard "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with fear and dismay.

 

 

 

The human actors are in a witless sitcom part of the time, and lot of the rest of their time is spent running in slo-mo away from explosions, although--hello!--you can't outrun an explosion. They also make speeches like this one by John Turturro: "Oh, no! The machine is buried in the pyramid! If they turn it on, it will destroy the sun! Not on my watch!" The humans, including lots of U.S. troops, shoot at the Transformers a lot, although never in the history of science fiction has an alien been harmed by gunfire.

 

 

 

There are many great-looking babes in the film, who are made up to a flawless perfection and look just like real women, if you are a junior fanboy whose experience of the gender is limited to lad magazines. The two most inexplicable characters are Ron and Judy Witwicky (Kevin Dunn and Julie White), who are the parents of Shia LaBeouf, who Mephistopheles threw in to sweeten the deal. They take their son away to Princeton, apparently a party school, where Judy eats some pot and goes berserk. Later they swoop down out of the sky on Egypt, for reasons the movie doesn't make crystal clear, so they also can run in slo-mo from explosions.

 

 

 

The battle scenes are bewildering. A Bot makes no visual sense anyway, but two or three tangled up together create an incomprehensible confusion. I find it amusing that creatures that can unfold out of a Camaro and stand four stories high do most of their fighting with...fists. Like I say, dumber than a box of staples. They have tiny little heads, although Jetfire® must be made of older models, since he has an aluminum beard.

 

 

 

Aware that this movie opened in England seven hours before Chicago time and the morning papers would be on the streets, after writing the above I looked up the first reviews as a reality check. I was reassured: "Like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan!" (Bradshaw, Guardian); "Sums up everything that is most tedious, crass and despicable about modern Hollywood!" (Tookey, Daily Mail); "A giant, lumbering idiot of a movie!" (Edwards, Daily Mirror). The first American review, Todd Gilchrist of Cinematical, reported that Bay's "ambition runs a mile long and an inch deep," but, in a spirited defense, says "this must be the most movie I have ever experienced." He is bullish on the box office: it "feels destined to be the biggest movie of all time." Its certainly the biggest something of all time.

 

 

 

Footnote 6/24: Does it strike you as a lapse of Pyramid security that no one notices a gigantic Deceptibot ripping off the top of the Great Pyramid? Not anyone watching on the live PyramidCam? Not even a traffic copter?

megan fox is one of the hottest girls out there no question about it.

 

transformers 2 was a KICK-[wagon] movie.

 

Great fight scenes, and just all around good movie.

 

plot was a little lacking though.

 

Other than the first line, I agree totally. But there are a lot better looking than Megan Fox. I'm not saying she's ugly, as that wouldn't be accurate, but she isn't as hot as everybody seems to think.

I don't understand why so many people here seem to think Megan Fox isn't that good looking. Oh well, not a big deal.

 

 

 

On topic: I haven't seen the movie yet. Yeah, great input, I know.

^^^Seriously, I'd go see Public Enemy. It was much better than this. Or Bruno which I know is gonna be awesome.

Ratchet, we friggin' get that you don't like it.

 

 

 

Skull, I'd go see it if you want to see Robots fighting each other and explosions. Sure, the plot was lacking, but it worked.

^^^Seriously, I'd go see Public Enemy. It was much better than this. Or Bruno which I know is gonna be awesome.

 

Personally, I think Bruno looks pathetic. I couldn't even sit through Borat and Bruno is basically just another Borat from what I can tell.

 

 

 

I don't understand why so many people here seem to think Megan Fox isn't that good looking. Oh well, not a big deal.

 

Yeah, I won't say she isn't good-looking, but she isn't the "perfect specimen" everybody is making her out to be.

Since when is Roger Ebert taken seriously?

I've seen it now and its a great film. Its wierd how Optimus dies then returns to kill the auto bots. I think its a good movie overall and i like the girl with the metal tongue....YUM lol. :o

I got dragged to see this by a few mates I hadn't seen for ages and I have to say the film wasn't for me. There were just bits that had me rolling my eyes (like the mother getting high and the jive-talking, gold tooth-wearing robots). Also, why did they hide the thing in the pyramid, it was kind of conspicuous no? Maybe hiding in something that wasn't such a landmark would have been smarter. All the philosiphising at then was really annoying as well (the Optimus Prime speech).There didn't seem to be much in the way of plot either but I kind of expected that.

 

 

 

By all means if you want to see explosions and fighting robots (and I don't necessarily mean that as a dig at the film) then go and see it or if you like Michael Bay's films (I don't personally) then you'd like it too. To be honest, if it wasn't for Meagan Fox (and the oh so subtle way she was shot) I wouldn't have stayed beyond the first 20 minutes.

What exactly were you expecting, ratchet?

I've seen it now and its a great film. Its wierd how Optimus dies then returns to kill the auto bots. I think its a good movie overall and i like the girl with the metal tongue....YUM lol. :o

 

:lol: Decepticons.

 

 

 

I got dragged to see this by a few mates I hadn't seen for ages and I have to say the film wasn't for me. There were just bits that had me rolling my eyes (like the mother getting high and the jive-talking, gold tooth-wearing robots). Also, why did they hide the thing in the pyramid, it was kind of conspicuous no? Maybe hiding in something that wasn't such a landmark would have been smarter. All the philosiphising at then was really annoying as well (the Optimus Prime speech).There didn't seem to be much in the way of plot either but I kind of expected that.

 

The mother getting high was for some comedic relief early on, I think. And it was pretty funny from where I sat. It was hidden in the pyramid as it was thought to be safe. That's all there is to that part. The Optimus speeches are typical Transformers events, and should never be left out just because a few people don't like them. As for Mudflap and Skids, they were mostly there for their comedic value.

 

 

 

By all means if you want to see explosions and fighting robots (and I don't necessarily mean that as a dig at the film) then go and see it or if you like Michael Bay's films (I don't personally) then you'd like it too. To be honest, if it wasn't for Meagan Fox (and the oh so subtle way she was shot) I wouldn't have stayed beyond the first 20 minutes.

 

Honestly, she wouldn't have been enough to keep me there. Even if I didn't like the movie (which I loved it) I would have stayed simply because I have sat through worse. *cough*Cloverfield*cough*

 

 

 

I got dragged to see this by a few mates I hadn't seen for ages and I have to say the film wasn't for me. There were just bits that had me rolling my eyes (like the mother getting high and the jive-talking, gold tooth-wearing robots). Also, why did they hide the thing in the pyramid, it was kind of conspicuous no? Maybe hiding in something that wasn't such a landmark would have been smarter. All the philosiphising at then was really annoying as well (the Optimus Prime speech).There didn't seem to be much in the way of plot either but I kind of expected that.

 

The mother getting high was for some comedic relief early on, I think. And it was pretty funny from where I sat. It was hidden in the pyramid as it was thought to be safe. That's all there is to that part. The Optimus speeches are typical Transformers events, and should never be left out just because a few people don't like them. As for Mudflap and Skids, they were mostly there for their comedic value.

 

 

 

I know why those scenes were there, I just didn't find them funny personally. Those two robots reminded me of Jar Jar Binks.

I thought it sucked, really. It was too boring.

 

 

 

I got dragged to see this by a few mates I hadn't seen for ages and I have to say the film wasn't for me. There were just bits that had me rolling my eyes (like the mother getting high and the jive-talking, gold tooth-wearing robots). Also, why did they hide the thing in the pyramid, it was kind of conspicuous no? Maybe hiding in something that wasn't such a landmark would have been smarter. All the philosiphising at then was really annoying as well (the Optimus Prime speech).There didn't seem to be much in the way of plot either but I kind of expected that.

 

The mother getting high was for some comedic relief early on, I think. And it was pretty funny from where I sat. It was hidden in the pyramid as it was thought to be safe. That's all there is to that part. The Optimus speeches are typical Transformers events, and should never be left out just because a few people don't like them. As for Mudflap and Skids, they were mostly there for their comedic value.

 

 

 

I know why those scenes were there, I just didn't find them funny personally. Those two robots reminded me of Jar Jar Binks.

 

I've never actually seen any Star Wars, so I don't know much about Jar Jar. But everybody in the vehicles around us laughed maniacally at certain parts involving Mudflap and Skids.