Awful

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2009)

If you like Disney films, then this is for you.
Genres of films that base themselves on comics or cartoons always run the risk of straying too far from the concepts or story lines of their original medium. The first Transformers movie was getting pretty close to line-crossing in this respect, Revenge of the Fallen was walks over the line and disappears into the distance bound for Disneyworld.
Great CGI and special effects it is true, just not nearly enough Transformers or Decepticons. Instead viewers are forced to endure painful teenage romance story that has nothing to do with the original cartoon at all ... the humans in the original Transformers cartoons ... it was their job to look after the Transformers and repair them, that was pretty much it. Not "you say the 'L' word" ... "no, you say it!" .... wooden script writing for the human characters, maybe it is because the movie has no place for them.
I felt sorry that the machines were sidelined in favour of a trite and pointless sub-plot. Oh and the lovable little decepticon model 4x4? The type of movie-goer who thought Ja-Ja Binks added anything at all to Star Wars, is the same sort of movie-goer who will love the awfulness of the borderline racist twin robots. Gratuitous innuendo and pop-culture characters ... dull. This movie is only for the 12-20 year old set. That said, it will probably win a bunch of awards. I give it a 2 for the machines and special effects. I hope that John Turturro got paid well to be involved in this most juvenile of films. At least Megan Fox wasn't so orange this time around (ouch).