Besides eye candy, not engaging

Rating: 4/10 (9 August 2010)

"Revenge of the Fallen" contained many of the elements that made the first "Transformers" film so exciting and worth seeing over and over again: full of action, metal clanking against each other, huge alien robots creating massive destruction, a certain alien item that would determine the fate of entire Transformer race, and many returning actors. What made this movie no greater than average, as compared to its solid predecessor, was a lack of plot, brainless, inappropriate humor, and no originality in that it seemed to be almost a carbon copy of the first "Transformers." This film was painful in its sexuality jokes, nonstop the entire film. The plot was extremely choppy and very stretched, and for a movie of extraterrestrial robots the size of buildings smacking into each other for months on end, it took itself way too seriously. The Dreamworks studio, Michael Bay, Spielberg, and anyone else involved in this film's production needs to evaluate its large audience comprised of children and realize that it's wrong to expose them to such inappropriate humor, much less adults. And, if they're going for adults as their target audience, than provide a plot with substance. They seemed to have missed the mark on not one, but two demographics. Lasers and special effects are always entertaining, but without anything significant behind it for two hours can become a bit of a time-waster, especially considering the sexual filth that littered this particular sequel.