Loud, noisy, explosively interesting, but more cheap humor and disappointing mediocrity than anything else

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2009)

I saw this movie with a friend of mine who has been a huge fan of the Transformers series, and we were both utterly astounded at how poorly Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was thrown together. The plot was predictable at nearly every turn. The subplots made you say "Please, God, let's just move on." The fight scenes were utterly spectacular... for the first 10 minutes; after that, CGI robots beating the snot out of each other and the US Army special forces (also usually computer-generated), just got old. It was far too much like the third Pirates of the Caribbean Movie: extended battle scenes which do nothing but say "look what our animators can do!", too many people trying to be funny (with astoundingly cheap laughs that I would have expected out of a Jack Black movie, not a Michael Bay film), and a plot so convoluted, that even if you do get it, you really don't give a crap. On the plus side, Megan Fox and Isabel Lucas are their usual hot, astoundingly slutty, parts, and the jokes in the movie, which I found incredibly cheap (getting hit in the testicles, an embarrassing parent under the influence, etc.) seemed to make several people in the audience laugh. The fight scenes were indeed amazing, but they just seemed to drag on after a while. Overall, an utterly mediocre movie. If decent acting, good special effects (a LOT of them), a convoluted plot, sappy and predictable subplots, cheap laughs, and Megan Fox almost showing her breasts 1,000 times is your type of movie, I strongly recommend this second Transformers movie. Personally, however, I believe you would be better off renting the Three Stooges (in terms of humor), a Die Hard movie (for pure action), and a cheap porno (for most of the female actresses in this film).