Transformers: Revenge of my Wallet

Rating: 3/10 (21 June 2014)

In 2007 Michael Bay and company brought Transformers to life with the first Transformers like action film. While the film was not perfect it was a solid summer action film that delivered overall. Two years later the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released. It is nowhere near the first film, and frankly that had a lot to do with the downplaying of action, lame script writing, and far too much humor.
Watching this film again was such a pain. Sitting there for more than two hours and twenty minutes was like watching paint dry. This sequel had almost nothing the first film had. The acting in the first film was miles better. This film felt like pushing useless humor that was far too over the top, and you could even say downright offensive, instead of giving us more action. Also writing Optimus Prime out of the movie for a large portion of it, only to have him return to save the day in the final minutes was a giant slap in the face to fans of the first movie and really a slap in the face to any Transformer fans. It is just lazy writing. Something I will talk more about in the coming paragraphs.
Michael Bay returns for his second outing as director for a Transformer film. I liked a lot of what Bay did in the first movie. Sure the acting was nothing special, but a big reason to see the first movie, the amazing action scenes, were a joy to watch on the big screen, and even now on home video. The action in this film was simply drowned out by borderline offensive comedy at times, and child like humor that really had no place in this film. I complained about the humor in the first film, but in this film, they rolled up all the humor of the first film and multiplied it by one hundred and sprinkled childish all over it. That and the action scenes are so few and far between. This film was about ten minutes longer than the first film yet the action was short in all. I like Michael Bay doing big time action movies, but his effort in this film was poor.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are back to write another Transformer film, and while their effort was average in the first film, it didn't really hurt the film at all. This time these two fools managed to take the bad from the first film, and make it worse. Ehren Kruger also gets a writing credit in this film, and later in the third film, Dark of the Moon. The effort overall from these three writers is shameful. Some of the humor as I mentioned a few times is borderline offensive. A lot of the humor has to do with the male private area, and this is suppose to be a big time summer blockbuster that is at least suppose to be taken somewhat seriously. Another huge problem with the film was the story itself. Not even half way into the film Optimus Prime is "killed", only to return later in the film with only minutes left. He of course saves the day and minutes later they film goes to black. This might be the definition of lazy writing. To have your major character completely disappear for a large portion of the film is downright crazy. Which is why I consider this film to be one of the worst of its kind. The first film was nothing Oscar worthy, but at least they didn't completely tear apart their main character and continue to push the envelope on stupid humor.
Overall if you enjoyed the first live action Transformer film back in 2007, you will likely be highly disappointed in this film. To the few and far between average action scenes, to the useless humor, to the lazy writing, this film was just a giant mess. For a franchise to start out better than average like it did with the 2007 film, and to fall so far like this film did, is just very sad.
3/10