One of those movies you're almost FORCED to like, and thats not a good thing....

Rating: 6/10 (27 June 2009)

So i decided to give my review of this movie because it is in my opinion one of the most hyped most not just this summer, but probably this year. The Transformers phenomenon started in 2007 when Michael Bay introduced us to the famous Hasbro toy line come to the big screen. The first movie was a huge success and surpasses everyones expectations.....the sequel however, could not live up to the hype it was meant to be in my opinion.
OK so let me start by saying i am the type of guy who doesn't mind a little mindless action and special effects blowing up every single minute, basically a good Michael Bay film. But i am also the type of person who looks for all aspects in a movie and Revenge of the Fallen is missing many of those aspects. I saw Revenge of the Fallen at the midnight showing and was excited and ready just like everyone else who went to see it. The first 5 minutes of this film automatically give you the tone the movie was going to give throughout, lots and lots of action and special effects. Hot cars, awesome fighting robots and big explosions. But of course, like many action packed movies, most of the focus is on the fighting sequences than the dialog or character development.
Once the fighting robots and awesome cars clear the dust, we are introduced to the human stars of the movies. The first time we see Sam's eccentric mother already made me feel awkward about the humor in this movie. The writers seemed to put too many comedic punch lines in the movie when it was not needed AT ALL(i.e the "weed" scene and Shia's sidekick Leo has many of those) And i am sorry Megan Fox, in my opinion you are the hottest woman in the world right now, but you still CANT ACT FOR YOUR LIFE!! Anyways, and of course i bring the topic of probably the biggest controversy in the entire movie, the introduction of the two new Twin robots in Skids and Mudflap. The writers seriously must have been smoking some serious stuff when deciding to portray these two characters in this manner because it almost ruined the film for me entirely. When i first here their voices, sounding ghetto and uneducated, i thought OK they wanted to add a little humor to the characters thats fine no biggy. But the ongoing ridiculous dialog and punchlines throughout the film was absolutely horrendous. Ex: talking about "busting a cap in someone's ass" and admitting they are illiterate and cannot read. Oh yeah, and one of the robots even has a gold tooth which falls off in one of the action sequences. I think the movie would have been exactly the same, maybe even better if the characters were not introduced at all.
Another major reason this film was slightly disappointing was The main villain, The Fallen. I say this because they should have just named the movie Transformers: Revenge of Megatron because The Fallen had absolutely NO IMPACT on the audience in the sense of how powerful a main villain should be. He didn't have an amazing presence, a resurrection or introduction to the film, he just seemed to be there and be like "Hey look im the Fallen, and almighty god Decepticon that makes other Decepticons do my dirty work." Megatron was still the main bad ass in this movie and the Fallen was just there to add more characters in my humble opinion. There were many other villains in the movie that i seemed to just forget about considering they were just added to only please the fan boys and more characters.
In conclusion, the title of this post speaks for itself because in my case, going into one of the most hyped movies of the year at the midnight opening you are almost forced to like it considering the great action sequences and special effects. After reading this you may think i did not like this movie at all but not true. I loved the action and no one is better at blowing this up than Michael Bay but the aftermath of watching a big blockbuster film you will realize how simple the movie really is. The biggest thing to do in Hollywood in my opinion is to follow up a huge successful movie to an even better sequel and this movie proves that making it better is no easy task. I still recommend anyone who is a fan of the first one or even a fan of just good action to go see it but don't expect anything CLOSE to lets say a Dark Knight or anything Oscar worthy. Still think it will break many records at the box-office however.