Lots to Love, Lots to Hate, and the Twins SUCK

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2009)

I'm a huge fan of the first Transformers film. It had everything a summer blockbuster should: great action, great visuals, just a fun time at the theater. And yes, I can understand why some people hate it, but just as a film itself, I thought it was an amazing picture. So I was pretty excited when they announced that there would be another Transformers film. However, when the reviews started coming out, I felt a little discouraged. Then the film made so much money and I thought "Maybe this won't be so bad." Unfortunately, it was great either.
There is a lot to love about Revenge of the Fallen. The action scenes are better, the visual effects are more stunning than they were in the last film (which surprised me, seeing as the visuals in Transformers was some of the best visual effects in history). The scenes between Sam's mom and dad made me laugh like crazy in the theater. Linkin Park's song New Divide is a really great song, though many will disagree. We have two really hot women, Megan Fox as Mikeala and Austrailian hottie Isabel Lucas as Terminator babe! (I gotta get me one of those). The things I loved about the first film were better.
But there was also a lot to hate about Revenge of the Fallen sadly.
Okay, for one thing the film is two and a half hours too long. I literally almost fell asleep in the theater. They should have cut it down and gotten rid of some things we didn't need to see. And even the last battle took a while to wake me up.
As well, there are two characters named Skids and Mudflap, and they are one of the most stereotypical, annoying characters I've ever seen on screen. They both sounded like autobots being voiced by the Wayan Bros. And the character of Weelie, which is basically a Joe Pesci robot, is just as bad. He is loud, obnoxious, and just a pointless character.
I'm fine with humor, and the humor in the first film was great and wasn't done throughout the film. In this film, pretty much every word of dialogue is followed by a punch line and some pretty awful ones at times. Dogs humping each others? WTF? The devastator has testicles? Come on.
Megan Fox is a beautiful thing. She has been crowned Earth's finest woman, and I agree she is. But she also does a terrible job in this movie. I'm not saying she's one of the worst actresses on the planet, and I'm not judging her based on the films she's been in. She was actually fine in the first film (even though I spent more time looking at her than listening to her words). But in this film she's not great at all.
There's this character, Leo, who is Sam's roommate. And he serves no purpose to the story, does nothing but yell and scream.
The first hour of this film is the best part, but the rest of the film gets weaker and weaker and weaker, and unfortunately I can't say I liked it. I didn't hate it, but I can't say I liked it. It's sad, because I loved the first film so much.