This time the robots transform to a ball of waste.

Rating: 1/10 (24 October 2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) is a perfect example of a movie that's sole purpose is to make mo'money for the studio (and that's exactly what the film did). The film gave the audience everything that was already seen in the first film, this time just in a much more bigger scale than before – it was like an updated version of the first Trasformers (2007) with no original ideas to add.
Where the first film was OK brainless fun, this one is not; the jokes, the action, the story – everything feels very much forced and pre-calculated, there's no surprises or any signs of imagination or real effort. I consider Michael Bay to be a decent director and great in making what he does best; cheesy Hollywood action movies (like The Rock (1996)), but Transformers 2 just feels so tedious and breathless that it was even a bit of a surprise considering who was holding the reins.
There's not much to the story: Sam Witwicky (played by Shia LeBeouf) goes off to college, comes across with some important information about the Transformers' ancient past and then get's chased by all kinds of shape shifting robots... A lot of explosions accompanied with cheesy music ensues. The rest of the cast from the first movie makes a return, though most of them having little if anything to do on the screen, Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) being the most obvious example. The cast does a decent job but the enthusiasm found in the first film was all gone, the often ridiculous dialog possibly being one reason for that.
Transformers 2 lacks a real script and real effort which made the film unsalvageable even by the good visuals the film has to offer through-out. The explosions and the robots all look good but made hollow by the mindlessness of it all: the film's like a picture gallery or a showcase of what's possible to do in today's CGI with no meaning beyond that point. I had a horrible experience with the film. 1/4