I really wish I could have my 2 1/2 hrs back

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2009)

You know, I didn't think it was possible for me to be bored with an action scene. But, after watching Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen...I have been proved wrong. I thought the first transformers movie was pretty good, nothing fantastic or anything but I enjoyed it. This one, on the other hand, was not enjoyable for me at all. First off, we get no character development for the auto-bots. And, when I say "no character development" I mean that I didn't even know the names of the new auto-bots in the film. This movie is 2 hrs of stuff blowing up...I'm serious. After the first 30 minutes of watching robots blowing each other up, I got extremely bored. Since I didn't give a crap about any of the robots, I thought maybe I would care about the humans...nope. I remember in the first film how Shia's character was a very likable goof ball, in this one he is a complete a**hole. Megan's character is just there for pure eye candy, no emotional attachment with her at all.
Something that I really wanted to mention was the editing of this movie. Many scenes in this film made me go "WTF?". For example, in one scene we see mega-tron beating up star scream and saying something to the effect of "I'll always be the leader of the decepticons". Then, in the very next scene we see mega-tron bowing down to another decepticon and referring to that decepticon as "master"...WTF? Another example is when Shia and Megan are running away from a female decepticon. In the scene they have gotten into the car and have already burnt rubber while the female decepticon is casually walking out the school they were just in and watching Shia and Megan drive away...*cut to the very next scene* we see Shia and Megan in the car and Megan says something to the effect of "she's on our tail"...WTF? Did I blink and miss something? One final example is when Shia and Megan are driving around in Egypt looking for something and then all of a sudden Megan says "oh no, the cops!!!" and then we see like 3 Egyptian police cars chasing them...WTF? Where the hell did those cops come from? Why are they chasing them? Then!!!...then in the very next scene after seeing Shia and Megan in the car freaking out about the cops...they cut to Megan in some Egyptian town wearing a burka...W...T...F? And don't even get me started on the stupid fart humor (robots having testicles, robots humping peoples legs). And did we really need to see Turturro's a**? Seriously? Also, lets not forget the blatant sexism in this movie. Women in this film are absolutely nothing except sex toys. There were 3 female auto-bots. Two of the three had no lines at all, while the third had one...ONE! The third one who had a line in the movie, immediately got blown up after she said her line...Jesus, could this film be anymore blatantly sexist? Not to mention that obvious racial stereotype with the twin auto-bots. They conveniently look like monkeys (big ears, big noses and big lips), talk in urban slang/ebonics and have gold teeth...hmm...I wonder who those characters are suppose to represent. I'm surprised that I haven't heard anything from the NAACP about this.
God, I really wish I could have my 2 1/2 hrs back. If this movie had made even the slightest bit of sense, I would have liked it a little bit more. This movie was without a doubt, one of the worst movies I've seen this year. In fact, it was so bad that it made the first transformers movie look like the godfather.