A LOT of Bang for your Buck

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2009)

***Possible SPOILERS AHEAD*** Proceed with caution.
I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Loved it. Sure, I'm aware it has flaws. Let's face it...this movie is really a recruitment video for the US Armed Forces. It's better than any of the serious ones we see all day, every day on our TV ("Do You Want To Know More?!"). This movie attempts to make the viewer believe that being a soldier is better than a video game. Why? Because you get to play with the coolest gadgets. The Pentagon knows this and approves or they would not let Michael Bay play with their toys. I've got a serious issue with that but I'll put that aside for right now.
Michael Bay LOVES to blow S#!& up! I love to watch him blow S#!& up and have crazy car chases AND have special effects that are off the chart. That's why I went to see this movie and it pays off big time! There was not much plot (okay...there's NOT a plot) here and the movie, if you stop to think about it for a second (which Bay does not give you because he's constantly blowing S#!& up) you'd pull your hair out at the enormous holes that make up what is supposed to pass for the plot. The acting is rudimentary at best and character development is non-existent. All the scenes are just tacked together to provide a reason for the special effects, car chases, and explosions....
...and I'm OKAY with that!
The only reason I went to see this was for the 'Bay Effect' which translates into over-the-top-adrenaline-rush-sonic-overload. I want to be blown out of my seat by the special effects. I want to be left panting and clutching my ears from the THX surround sound. I want a movie that makes me remember why going to movies in the summer is such a rush.
Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen delivers...big time.
I don't really care that Sam is going away to college and then touches a shard of the cube from the first film. I don't care that he begins to have flashes of super Transformer intelligence that only serves as a plot device anyway to get to the symbols. What I care about is watching Optimus Prime kick Decepticon butt. Sam has to help, of course, by ramming yet another piece of alien technology into Optimus' chest plate. There were the old stand-by Transformers along with some new ones.
Do yourself a favor. Buy a bucket of popcorn, a large soda, and treat yourself to the first full-fledged adrenaline rush of the summer movie season. You'll thank me.