Not the first at all

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2009)

OK, so I'm a bit late, but I just watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I wasn't as excited to see it as everyone else, but still wanted to. And it reached the expectations I had for it.
I was happy right from the start when the robots were fighting in China. Great action, slow mo shots, fast chases. That's what an action movie is about. Unfortunately, the movie did not stay that way.
I was happy to see the origins and backstory behind the Transformers. It was actually interesting. But they dragged it out as much as they could. This caused the film to be about three hours long. The other main problem I had was that the robot fights were few and far between. I don't want to watch people run from robots the whole movie. I want to see good robots kill bad robots. Duh.
I was also scratching my head about a few things: -You can't even take a tube of toothpaste on a plane. How do you get a robot in a box on board? -Why does she fly 3000 miles to go see her Sam but his parents drove him to college in what seemed like 20 minutes? -Why do all of the Transformers suddenly know how to curse and do it quite frequently? -Why do the Decepticons disguise themselves as cars when they can turn into humans? Michael Bay must have wanted to make a Terminator movie. We could see it coming a mile away. Stupid. -If "The Fallen" was so great and powerful and you're gonna amp us up for this epic battle, then why does Optimus Prime hop right up from his deathbed and rip his face open without breaking a sweat? I was hoping that wasn't the end but oh well.
The robots fighting is what everyone wants to see. They spent too much time on the story and trying to fit in over the top slapstick comedy in stupid places and not enough time on good ol' fashioned action. Great looking movie, fun enough to watch, but not as magic as the first one at all.