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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Rank 3 Reviews
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Boxoffice Magazine
Two years on and it's much more of the same, in fact probably too much with director Michael Bay running riot with all of his warrior "toys." Less definitely would have been more-yet that is probably not going to harm its prospects. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
E! Online
You'll need your kids to explain it all to you, but you might not be so happy with all the jokes about dogs humping and robot genitalia. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at E! Online
News of the World
But if you can't wait until then, rest assured if you enjoyed the original, as I did, you'll love the hell out of this. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at News of the World
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Sam gives the fragment to his girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox) for safe keeping but not before he accidentally touches it and has his brain imprinted with visions of alien symbols. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Sunday Mail
With Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Bay - who has proved to be Hollywood's undisputed action master with Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon and The Rock - is set on serving up even more robots, more in-your-face action, more awesome special effects ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Sunday Mail
Total Film
Old folks may find the relentless sensory assault a little draining, but the bangs, 'bots and bombast ensure Fallen has everything Transformers fans will want and expect. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Total Film
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (Linda Cook)
Carolina Weekly
Bay's lack of interest shines through, however, every time his Transformers stop fighting. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Carolina Weekly
Houston Chronicle
Long, long ago, hairy people with face paint were minding their own hunter-gatherer business when large, intergalactic robots suddenly plopped out of nowhere. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Houston Chronicle
News Blaze
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen generally amounts to a worthy sequel for several reasons. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at News Blaze
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The basic premise of the story is, of course, the same as in the first movie: a race of mechanical aliens called Transformers inhabit the earth, blending in with human society when they so choose by changing from their massive, humanoid-robot forms into c ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide
Chicago Reader
Revenge of the Fallen earns hig marks as a high-octane, 2 1/2 hour diversion certain to stimulate, titillate and satiate the blood and other lusts of the raging-hormone set. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Chicago Reader
Entertainment Weekly
In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a Decepticon - one of those evil robots that looks like a junk heap of pewter shards designed by H.R. Giger - floats around in space, where it sends a ball of fire rocketing to Earth. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Entertainment Weekly
Washington Post
And this is from someone who liked "Transformers." Sure, it was a clanking, clanging, rock-'em, sock-'em robot slugfest, but with a human element that was surprisingly real. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Washington Post
jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
Filled with explosions, amazing special effects and a good dose of humor. It's everything a summer blockbuster should be. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
Movie Web
Before I rip into the parts of the film that really pissed me off, let's take a critical eye to something that Michael Bay is supposedly good at - action scenes. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Movie Web
Eclipse Magazine
This could be a testament to how much I was determined to sit through Director Michael Bay's latest explosion filled summer blockbuster, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Eclipse Magazine
TheDivaReview.com
Put in your earplugs and grab the aspirin. Enjoyable for the only the easiest to please 10-year-old boys; this deafening, tiresome epic is a skull-splitting hot mess for everyone else. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at TheDivaReview.com
The Sydney Morning Herald
TRANSFORMERS, released in 2007, was in most respects a Steven Spielberg film, although directed by one of his disciples. Spielberg developed it and gave it to Michael Bay to execute. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Sydney Morning Herald
Seacoast Newspaper
Sure it could have been a little more critic-friendly, a little more intellectual, maybe even a little less silly, but Michael Bay is first and foremost an entertainer and in my opinion he once again gets the job done. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Seacoast Newspaper
The Sun
Bay again weighs the featherlight plot down with unimportant, annoying characters. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Sun
AskMen.com
The Autobots and Decepticons return in this gleefully over-the-top sequel to 2007's successful Transformers, with many of the original's actors reprising their roles -- including Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, and Tyrese Gibson. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at AskMen.com
Giles Hardie
Any review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen only needs be one line long. If you liked the first film, you'll like this one. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Giles Hardie
Time Out London
A smash-and-plunder forest battle ups the action ante, and the return of John Turturro adds a lightness of tone which is totally lacking in LaBeouf and Megan Fox. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Time Out London
IGN Movies UK
The biggest movie of the summer is finally here, but that's the problem with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - it's just too bloody big. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at IGN Movies UK
jsonline.com
Throw in some explosions, breaking buildings, orbital strikes and the U.S. military, and you have a summer action blockbuster that scorches your eyes and rattles you in your seat. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at jsonline.com
Jam! Movies
But that's life in the land of director Michael Bay, where every dewy, spray-on tan comes with its own radio-friendly rock ballad and weapons cache. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Jam! Movies
Daily Mirror
It is a sprawlingly noisy adventure epic that entertains at times, but never really manages to engage. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Daily Mirror
Rolling Stone
Oh, where was I? Yeah, the bots. Sam also leaves behind his first love. That'd be Bumblebee, the yellow Camaro who morphs into Sam's robot guardian angel when needed. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Rolling Stone
NY Daily News
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - the biggest, most smashmouth movie of the summer - has arrived, and trying to avoid it will be like getting out of the way of a 20-robot-car pileup. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at NY Daily News
Empire Magazine
A super-sized second helping, but the novelty factor and some of the charm's gone. Hey, at least there's more Megatron / Starscream squabbling this time round. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Empire Magazine
Chicago Metromix
Will Sam (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela (Megan Fox) have the guts to -- giggle! -- say the L word? Has the orange babe (Isabel Lucas) lusting after Sam been tanning or bathing in Cheetos? Can the friendly Autobots defeat the evil Decepticons without smashing ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Chicago Metromix
Financial Times
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the first summer blockbuster out of the starting grid and arrives like a techno-nightmare inspired by the Ascot Races, 140 minutes of galloping inanity, trained to crash into railings and stewards whenever possible. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Financial Times
The New York Times
You're not meant to take that seriously, of course, just like there's nothing to the reference to President Obama being whisked out of danger instead of standing tall like Optimus Prime and the rest of the robotic heroes. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The New York Times
Cinematical
As a high-school graduation present to myself in 1993, I stayed up all night watching the original Star Wars trilogy on video. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Cinematical
Waffle Movies
It is a world where amazingly gorgeous women like Megan Fox get turned on by guys who look like Shia LaBeouf and Dwight Shrute. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Waffle Movies
Reel Talk Reviews
I had to get past one more problem, though, and there was no way around this but to accept it. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Reel Talk Reviews
Filmink Magazine
People will try to tell you, "Relax! It's all good dumb fun, unclench and enjoy! Leave your brain at the door!" Well, quite honestly, you can try with all your might, but bad storytelling is bad storytelling, no matter how many explosions, robots and hot ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Filmink Magazine
Dallas Morning News
Perhaps that is by design. This is, after all, a Michael Bay film, the unaccountably successful director whose films have established him as a maestro of mayhem who is utterly tone deaf when it comes to human-scaled emotions or actions. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Dallas Morning News
Sky Movies
This thunderously noisy celebration of the Hasbro toy ticks all the right boxes with the fanboys...the rest of us might suffer metal fatigue. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Sky Movies
Scotsman
Still, as much fun as you want the film to deliver, its successes are usually sabotaged by Bay's baby-brained sense of humour. He seems to find the idea of throwing inappropriate sexual references into the mix endlessly hilarious. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Scotsman
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The spectacular "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a triumph of the producers' creed: Pound the senses, simulate emotion and milk the golden calf of the familiar like a mechanical farmhand. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Toronto Star
Before getting into the booms and boobage of director Michael Bay's latest sensory assault, let's note that the man has no use for 3-D. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Toronto Star
FHM
It's like watching a blender for two hours while someone shouts at you. And then the last half an hour is the same, except it's more like having your head strapped to a washing machine while you watch a blender and someone shouts at you. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at FHM
Miami Herald
Just how enormous is the scale of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Big enough that the movie has a prologue set in the year 17,000 B.C. Big enough that the film's opening setpiece, in which the good robots (i.e. the Autobots) suss out a bad robot (i. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Miami Herald
Newsday
"Mikaela, I think a sliver of The Cube got stuck on my shirt," Sam Witwicky tells his girlfriend, kicking off the action in " Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
As plot points go - The Cube is an extra-terrestrial power source, just F.Y.I. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Newsday
Denver Post
We've been here before. An improbable project based on a kitchy source wows audiences and even critics. Then the anticipated sequel comes up short. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Denver Post
WaffleMovies.com
Two of our Autobot heroes, Skids and Mudflap (voices by Tom Kenny) come off as the worst racial stereotypes in move history. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at WaffleMovies.com
Time Out New York
Then a smash-and-plunder forest battle ups the ante, and the return of John Turturro adds a lightness of tone totally lacking in both LaBeouf and Megan Fox's performances. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Time Out New York
7M Pictures
No matter what you are expecting from Michael Bay's latest testosterone orgasm known as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," you will probably get exactly that. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at 7M Pictures
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by gd2525 on July 17, 2009 Blackwood, New Jersey
Wow, not only is there no real story here but after a while the robot smashing action begins to get boring and overdone. If it wasn't for the loud explosions I may have fallen asleep in the theater. Nothing here at all. ...
by Tetramobile on July 17, 2009 New York, New York
I don't know why this movie is getting such a hard time, it's so fun to watch. Everything about this movie just makes me smile. It's so enjoyable. Also, I cried... I'll admit it. I just can't help it. It was so emotional and if ...
by rekidd on July 14, 2009 Minneapolis, Minnesota
I thought the movie was written pretty well although the ending is abrupt and expected. There was loads of actions sequences involved and I would recommend seeing in the movie theatre rather than waiting for it to come out on DVD or Blu-Ray. For it being ...
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