okay now i've gone through this one again and it deserved its razzies. but i will say this: to me there was a whole lot of potential in what great idea they had with this movie. i mean as far as action, bit of plot and so on, this one is better as far as going forward from the last one. but oh my fricking gosh did they throw that potential away.
Plot: okay so it's been two years since the last film. the Autobots have forged an alliance with the humans against the remaining Decepticions. (great start. i enjoyed how that's more common after the battle from the first film) meanwhile Sam is going to college and while he's trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with Mikaela, neither of them have gotten started is saying that they love each other. (what the frick? it's not like you guys are getting married (thank heavens)) but when sam touches a piece of the All Spark he starts to get a bunch of symbols in his mind. while at it, the Decepticons recover another piece of the All Spark and use it to resurrect Megatron. it is later revealed that Megatron is serving the original Decepticon known as The Fallen (Megatron serving someone? weak)and they need the symbols in sam's mind. while trying to get sam, Megatron manages to kill Optimus Prime and then the Fallen threatens the world to give sam to him or he'll destroy the planet. sam then comes across a seeker named Jetfire who explains that The Fallen wants the symbols in his head because it's the key to finding The Matrix of Leadership which activate a machine that destroys suns in order to harvest energon. sam find the Matrix but it turn into dust. so he takes the dust that tries to use it to resurrect Optimus as the Autobots & humans begin a battle against the Decepticons. during the battle, Megatron kills Sam who goes to Transformers heaven...no really, he goes to Transformers heaven...maybe he was converted into Transformerism between movies i guess. but in heaven the first primes resurrect him and reconstruct the Matrix in some spiritual way, and so he resurrects Optimus, The Fallen takes the Matrix, Jetfire give his parts to Optimus which turns him into this major bad-a, the kills the Fallen, Megatron flees and Sam and Mikaela finally admit they love each other.
now it's pretty terrible, but you have to admit that considering how they put out the transformers story to be outside of just plain old, Autobots vs. Decepticons and all the guns, cars and boobs and explosions Michael Bay has to offer, there was potential in this film.
Acting/Characters:
Humans
Shia Lebeouf/Sam Witwicky: what was Lebeouf doing? tell me that most of what he did was Bay's doing. and i'm mostly referring to him screaming like a girl. I mean sure, it's nice that he's not a major acting wimp like in the last film with trying so hard to be a somebody and always using that line "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!", but how they changed him since the events of the film is just horrifying. and even outside of the acting there's the character to begin with, with him still not telling that the loves Mikaela after being with her for two years now, and how he still has a hero's call going on for him. and that's another thing; he's getting the hero's call, and then at the end of the movie when he's in Transformers heaven, you hear the Primes tell him that his destiny has always been just using the matrix to resurrect Optimus. i mean seriously imagine if that was you. like say i lived my whole young adult life playing video games, making comics, become a Christian, watch movie, and my whole point in living is just to resurrect somebody and that's it. i mean sure it'll help saving the world and stuff but seriously.
Megan Fox/Mikeala Barnes: now this movie is where we start to really not like Fox. there are plenty of ways to list why but i think the worst is that her character did let Wheelie hump her leg. and the best defense she has is that "at least he's loyal." not okay. But hey, big news is that she's NOT COMING BACK FOR THE THIRD ONE!!!! so the next girl might not be great actress at all, but better that than fox.
John Benjamin Hickey/Galloway: i hate Galloway. he's a complete moron. and i mean moron in the kind of moron from the Aliens movies that tried to do research and stuff on the Aliens and while it's more shutting down the alliance with the humans and Autobots, it's just as moronic.
Ron & Julie Witwicky: now they are just as embarrassing for Sam. and with Julie i totally agree that she was at least nominated for worst supporting actress at the Razzies.
John Turturro/Simmons: he was in the last film but i decided to save it for this film when i say that this is a very bad character too. you are just not comfortable with him at all.
Ramon Rodrigueaz/ Leo: he's worse that Simmons. cause that least Simmons had a little bit of dignity.
everyone else human wise was the usual. but it was nice to see Rainn Wilson as Sam's professor earlier in the film.
Autobots
Jetfire: I did not like Jetfire. he's so different for the worse when comparing to what he really is in the original franchise.
The Twins: they were annoying and they played a bad stereotype and they were just not funny.
Wheelie: what's to say about him? he's annoying and he humped Megan fox's leg.
Optimus Prime: from my experience with Transformers, this was a good film in terms of showing the real bad-a in him. I mean to me, the best battle scene there was with Optimus was the last 40 seconds of him fighting Megatron, Starscream and that helicopter before Megatron killed him. but i would imagine some fan would not like how with this film, they might make people believe that Primes are an actual type of Transformers race. and i actually thought that before i did the research. but it turns out that a Prime is just the title for the leader of the Autobots if that bot is chosen by the Matrix, which in fact is not just a battery for a harvest, it's a major source of power. The force in a bottle. or maybe what's more to say is that it's basically The One Ring for the Autobots. now true, when the time of the Transformers began, there originally was more than on prime that existed, (except that it was 13 primes not 7) and The Fallen was on of them, but still. they mixed a few things for the matter fo the Matrix and about Primes in Transformers.
Bumblebee: well they kind of made him more of a bad-a with this movie, but they kind of made him a wimp at the same time. i mean when sam tell him that that he's not coming to college with him, he starts to cry. that's just ridiculous. and he switches back to using the radio because according to the comics between the movies, he lost his voice again during a Decepticon attack. and what i don't think a lot of movie watchers like us would enjoy is that some of the things he uses to communicate is quotes from some of the best movie there is like Forest Gump and A Wonderful Life. grr.
Decepticons:
Megatron: well i do like that he is more himself about how much he desires control...but even when i hardly knew a thing about Transformers, i was very disappointed about him actually having a master (The Fallen) i mean the general story is that Megatron desires to be supreme ruler. he belongs to nobody. i mean the only time aside from this were he is actually serving someone was in The Transformers: the movie, were he served Unicron just so he can avoid being turned into oblivion. and i don't get the fact that he's growing a lot in this film and even spitting. last thing to say, which i forgot to mention in my review tot he first film is how messed i find it that he is voiced my Hugo Weaving. you can hardly recognize the voice.
Starscream: well they showed more of his character by pointing out how he left Megatron to die during the first film. but he's still not trying to lead the Decepticons. i mean sure, it's a cheesy thing since it's there all the time but what are you going to do with Starscream if not have him be so determined to lead the Decepticons?
Devastator: you would know him better as the guy that was eating sand and such. really they made him fairly cool making him what the is on a few senses. but then you have the part where you see in nuts...as in his making children type of nuts. i mean transformers can fall in love and pair up, but they are created not made by breeding...and yet Bay even confirms it that it's his nuts...what the heck?
Soundwave: i love Soundwave. he's my favorite just because of his awesome robotic voice from the original series. yet while they still have Frank Welker voice as him, they have him go with the Soundwave voice were he sound more like Gothmog in Lord of the Rings. i mean that makes sense but that's still lame. but here's to more of him in the next film.
The Fallen: there really isn't that much to say about The Fallen, there's nothing i could've found about him in terms of tv shows & such only that he was in the comics once. other than that, he really wasn't much since they didn't do much with him in this movie.
Sound effects/mixing: it was better. and it was more exciting...but i could still detect the original sound effect fo transformers transforming from one scene. and i disliked how they used other effects that have already been used like the sound effect for that guns in the future from the Terminator series. i just prefer that they just use their own thing really.
Editing: okay so the editing was better. they used some wider shots so you can understand what is going on better. but on major flaw i notice is how they reused two shots during one scene: one where they first introduce Soundwave and the other shot were we saw Optimus, Ironhide, Jazz and Rachet head to earth. so that's a no.
effects: better and i also forgot to say from the last review how i love the creativity in how the transformers actually transform with these movies. well done really.
plot holes:
1) who did the Decepticons know about the shard that sam had when he has just found out about it.
2)why did they need the shard to awake Jetfire
3) wheelie disappears during the end of the movie
4) the Autobot JOlt appears out of nowhere to help Optimus merge with Jetfire's parts.
there's just millions more.
And that's my review for Revenge of the Fallen, they had some potential and they screwed it up. and while the next one will alsob e bad, there is hope that it'll be better with both action and the fact that Fox won't be in it. so we shall wait until then to see how it is and to end my quest about Transformers. see you then.
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