Amazing CGI, solid action, but otherwise crap.

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2009)

I saw this movie a few days after release, so i entered the theater pessimistically. The movie started off with a comedic edge, which was probably the most enjoyable part of the movie. Once the action started things got confusing.
A big difference between revenge of the fallen and the first one is the strength of the deceptagons. Remember in transformers 1 where megatron was simply invincible until blasted by the cube? Not this time around. This time a few rounds from a human tank is enough to severely wound and transformer.
This really took away from the fact that the autobots were so outnumbered by machines bigger then them. But once the action started, you couldn't tell the villains apart unless they were talking or you were close enough to see there face. The autobots were a little more distinguished because of there bright colors.
The acting was once again pretty good, apart from a few tag-a-longs that were written into the plot.
The plot had an obvious problem. One, there were too many characters for the movies own good, which resulted in almost an hour of unnecessary crap. Steven Spielberg crossed a few lines between producer and director here as he sent shia laboeouf to Egypt and had him solving riddles.
Overall the messy (but fun) action sequences weren't enough to make us ignore the plot entirely. Not as good as the first, but good enough to make a sequel.
6/10