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Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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Starring:	Shia LaBeouf \| Megan Fox \| Josh Duhamel \| John Turturro \| Matthew Marsden \| Peter Cullen \| Samantha Smith \| Tyrese Gibson \| Kevin Dunn \| Julie White \| John Benjamin Hickey \| Ramon Rodriguez \| Isabel Lucas
Director:	Michael Bay
Studio:	PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	150 mins
Genres:	Action/Adventure \| Audio Descriptive \| Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages:	English, English Audio Description
Released:	November 30, 2009

Michael Bay follows up his 2007 big-screen adaptation of the Transformers cartoon/toy franchise with the 2009 sequel TRANSFORMERS - REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. The epic battle for supremacy between the Autobots and the Decepticons rages on, and as usual, it's the humans who are caught in the crossfire.
The Decepticons continue to spearhead a destructive campaign against the earthlings and their Autobot protectors. But the main villain of the piece is The Fallen (voiced by Tony Todd), a centuries-old Giger-esque baddie who emerges from the scrap heap hungry for power. Having lain dormant for so long, his batteries are in serious need of recharging, and the only energy source in the galaxy powerful enough to restore him to his former titanic glory is the Earth's sun. The Fallen realises that draining the sun of its energy has the added benefit of wiping out the entire human race; something he has been plotting ever since his last attempt at harvesting the sun's energy was foiled.
Several characters from the first film return, including Sam (Shia LaBeouf), an all-American college freshman who enjoys a vague 'chosen one' status among the Autobots, and Mikaela (Megan Fox), his girlfriend, who's not only beautiful but handy with a wrench. However, the real star of the show is Optimus Prime (voiced by original voice actor Peter Cullen). The legendary head Autobot is given a lot more screen time in this outing, and features prominently in many of the manic action sequences. You don't even have to be an old-school Transformers fan to pick up on the mythos--he speaks in nothing but searing quips and infinite wisdoms, and can turn into a turbo-charged Mack truck at will. So even if Optimus Prime isn't your mental template for the warrior-king archetype, he still steals the show, and makes TRANSFORMERS 2 more than just passable. With its eye-popping visual effects and dramatic set pieces, this instalment manages to be an even bigger spectacle than the first, which is saying a lot for a film about giant robots that turn into cars.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5
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With this cash-cow sequel to his widely derided, hugely succesful original, Michael Bay comes closer than any director...

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Rated 2.0 stars
The first film was light years better.

Suhail Ahmad from Leicester, England., 19th June, 2009

I watched the very first showing of this film (19/06/09 at 12.01 am at Leicester freemans park and it is 2hrs 30mins long). I thought this would be just as good as the first film. However, I was in for a nasty surprise. No thanks to the typical american, assenine, puerile idiot michael bay (and equally shia lebouf, who was allowed major influence in the story), this film was peppered with stupidity, immature toilet humour and inconsistent storylines. There was far too much infantile humour which severely handicapped any legitimacy of the plot and sub plot. Furthermore, according to the idiotic t**t michael bay, the creation matrix is used as an ignition key to switch on the 'star harvester' which saps all of the nuclear energy from a star/sun and transform that energy into energon, thus destroying a living planet in the process. WRONG!!!. In the original comic series, the creation matrix never had destructive functions, only life generating abilities. Hence the name 'creation matrix' and NOT 'destruction matrix'. Clearly michael bay and shia lebouf have let their infantile imaginations run amok and have completely rewritten and perverted the original comic stories. They also plagiarised integral components from other films such as as star wars, terminator and even titanic!. Megatron turned out to be an apprentice of the dark side (star wars!!), whose master is one of the original 7 primus autobots. The film is called 'revenge of the fallen' since the dark master betrayed his autobot brethren and was thus banished (star wars again!). There is plagiarism of theological undertones, where Iblis (an angel) was banished from heaven and became satan. The film also plagiarised the terminator cyborgs, since decepticons were able to assume animal and human forms. At the end of the film Optimus Prime gave a speech whilst standing at the stern of a US navy aircraft carrier (reminds me of the scene from Titanic). There was also very little integral performance from the original autobots (Ironhide, Ratchet and Bumblebee). They were used as window dressing. The awesome autobot Sideswipe was sidelined at the expense of the immaturely portrayed twins (mudflap and and skids). Arcee was not one autobot but 3!. In the final fight scene, the six minor autobots were up against 19 decepticons (including megatron and his master), yet the autobots still won!. Prime was killed halfway through the film but was brought back to life by the matrix. Jetfire made a cameo appearance, but was mortally wounded in the final battle, but still donated his life spark to Prime, to bolster his power, so he could take on megatron and his master. Shia lebouf dies but is resurrected (he thinks he is Jesus!). Bad points aside, the film had only 2 assets. First and foremost - Megan Fox was unbelievably sexy (I seriously want to marry her!) and the CGI was fantastic. This film is worth watching just for Megan Fox. However, I do miss the gorgeous blonde analyst from the 1st movie (Maggie Madsen, played by Rachel Taylor). She gave Megan a run for her money. No doubt there will be a 3rd installment in the money making franchise (where quality has clearly gone down the toilet). However, michael bay should be disposed of asap and another writer/director must be allowed to take over and go back to the original comic stories. Bring back all the other original autobots and decepticons (and in their original comic forms as I do not like the new techno spangled robot forms). Overall, michael bay and shia lebouf both deserve to be horse whippped and executed, because they destroyed what could have been a fantastic film (which instead turned out to be a bitter disappointment). Only watch this film if you are looking for mindless action. If you want substance, go see Star Trek, X-men origins and Terminator Salvation (they were far superior, especially Star Trek). Transformers 2 turned out to be a shocking disappointment.

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