Face it, haters...this movie does rock!

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2010)

Transformers: Revenger Of The Fallen may not be Lawrence Of Arabia, but as a sci-fi flick, it kicks ass for me. Once again, ILM has stepped up to the plate with effects that make you believe robots look real, can fight, and even have emotions (Bumblebee's 'crying' as Sam Witwicky leaves for college is a stand out). The story isn't much....or is it? I think that it is, and that having all of the solar system be threatened with a supernova due to Megatron's need for Energon qualifies as a plot point: I sure was on the edge of my seat hoping that Optimus Prime would stop him, or that somebody would. I was also scared for Sam when that lady Decepticon almost broke up his relationship with his girlfriend (and left to go to the washroom hoping he'd be okay).
The part of the plot that's weak for me is the comedy relief robots whose names I forget now; they don't add much to the plot, and they should have use a better comedy relief template than Afro-American B-boys (I would have used Larry, Curly, and Moe from The Three Stooges, or Abbott & Costello instead, as they are timeless!): I would rather have seen more of the female Autobots (Arcee & Co.) but overall, a fine adventure movie, with the fantastic most satisfactorily realized and put up on screen, and also NOT a bomb in the way that others think that it is-I'd rather go to the movies to see this than watch ANYTHING from the Sundance Film Festival, with its plethora/parade of messed up human beings masquerading as characters.