Bigger, better and longer.

Rating: 6/10 (22 June 2009)

Grab your shades and prepare for the lens flares!
I'm a sci-fi fan, but never really got into Transformers until I saw the 2007 film. I thought it had some cool moments in it and I did enjoy it, but thought that the movie had a little too much out of place comedy and that their coverage of many of the robot fights wasn't too hot.
In Revenge of the Fallen, Bay's moved on from showcasing intensely blurry closeups of Optimus Prime's ankle to providing proper titanic scale battles that aren't covered using MTV's camera crew. The level of action really blew me away and I was quite impressed with the visual effects which I thought were way beyond what they were able to do in the first film. Granted there's a good deal of human drama in there too, done in Michael Bay's typical cheesified style. It's fun to watch, the new "girl" providing a nice twist to the standard love triangle idea.
Revealing the ancient history of the autobots and decepticons further was interesting and even if they were a bit nauseating at times, I liked the hyperactive minibots that they brought in. My only problems were the runtime, which was a bit excessive, and the lack of characterization with the Fallen guy.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the film and think it's got the energy and feeling of excitement that the first one lacked a little. It feels more like a proper film than an overly long montage, and thrilled me much more than Terminator 4 ever could. Definitely recommended for all action and sci-fi fans out there!