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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Rank 5 Reviews
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Heart 106.2 (Simon Thompson)
The first thing you need to do before you see this movie, and you should see this movie, is disengage your brain. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Heart 106.2 (Simon Thompson)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (Linda Cook)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Time Out New York (Tom Huddleston)
ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
For all the mayhem and destruction that occur in Bay's movies, they are frequently joyless affairs because it's hard to care about the shallow characters that inhabit them. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
PopMatters
At this point in his career, Michael Bay has one of two options. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at PopMatters
Variety
With machines that are impressively more lifelike, and characters that are more and more like machines, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" takes the franchise to a vastly superior level of artificial intelligence. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Variety
Dark Horizons
Bigger in every way, except where it's needed, 'Fallen' represents Michael Bay at his most unrestrained and confident since "Bad Boys II", and certainly his most ridiculous to date. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Dark Horizons
Village Voice
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment-and be grateful. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Village Voice
Salon.com
Of course, all Michael Bay movies are loud: He accessorizes his shoddily conceived and executed action sequences with heaps of gunfire, explosions and crashes, ostensibly to make them more thrilling. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Salon.com
ABC Tasmania
Hoping to make sense of an indecipherable plot, one could interpret Transformers as an attempt to translate the American experience of the War in Iraq into something with a happy ending and a triumphant US military. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at ABC Tasmania
Mania.com
It goes without saying that these figures are laughable cut-outs, delivered with stunning clumsiness and evoking the kind of embarrassed audience reactions that accompany a six-year-old telling a dirty joke. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Mania.com
Film Journal International
A sequel to the 2007 worldwide blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen forms the second part of a planned trilogy based on the once-popular Hasbro action figures. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Film Journal International
Entertainment Spectrum
The sights and sounds bombard your senses into a numbing catatonic state. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Entertainment Spectrum
guides.news.com
The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at guides.news.com
News Blaze
Essentially battering rather than seducing viewers into submission as captive audiences for the interminable 2 1/2 hours duration, Transformers 2 takes the action movie as passive spectator sport with clenched teeth and shriveled eardrums, to new and aest ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at News Blaze
The Movie Kit
To be brief, it seems the Transformers have had a long standing history with humans, going way back to ancient Egypt. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Movie Kit
New York Press
Transforming is the capitalist dream of rebranding. It's not transcendence-thus, the need for the basic sci-fi story of good vs. evil, where Revenge of the Fallen alludes to the story of Lucifer. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at New York Press
About.com
More so than the first film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is all about the robots. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at About.com
TwinCities.com
That stops when the transformer battles kick into high gear in the film's latter stages, especially since I still think watching two transformers wrestle each other is about as exciting as watching my digital camera recharge. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at TwinCities.com
BDK Reviews
Visually, the film is beautiful, but as a huge fan of the first film, I was thoroughly disappointed with the overall structure, pacing, script and experience. I don't think I have seen a film this unstructured in my entire life. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at BDK Reviews
Montreal Film Journal
We could always ignore the plot and just focus on the giant robot action, I guess, and there are indeed two or three intense sequences of clashing metal frenzy and mass destruction, but the ratio of dull crap to cool moments is even worse than in the firs ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Montreal Film Journal
Belief Net
I truly loved the first Transformers movie. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Belief Net
Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)
It's little wonder that Bay routinely receives the blessing of the American military. His movies are eye-candy incursions on your brain - 150-minute shock-and-awe campaigns where professional pyrotechnics level insurgent idiotic scenarios. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)
Nolan's Pop Culture Review (Michael A. Smith)
...Fox is wasted, given nothing more to do then wear revealing outfits and pout. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Nolan's Pop Culture Review (Michael A. Smith)
Scene Stealers
Is the constant barrage of crazy transformers fighting each other enough to make the two and half hour movie worth recommending? ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Scene Stealers
SFX Magazine
Like the movie as a whole, the results are inconsistent. By turns Revenge Of The Fallen is spectacular, funny, cringeworthy, edge-of-the-seat exciting, tedious, incomprehensible, dumb and very occasionally smart - sometimes all at the same time. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at SFX Magazine
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Las Vegas Weekly
You can say this for Michael Bay: He delivers what he promises. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Bay's sequel to his mind-numbing, loud, visually incoherent 2007 megahit Transformers, is everything the original was and more. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Las Vegas Weekly
Cinema Blend
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an exhausting experience. It's an assault on the senses, a visual blur of incomprehensible, never-ending action. It's like standing in the middle of a dust storm and opening your eyes to let the grit pour in. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Cinema Blend
Urban Cinefile
With Michael Bay's stamp all over it, this sequel certainly looks amazing with an onslaught of explosive visual effects, a grandiose plot, exotic locations, a generous dose of humour, a cast of thousands and a budget of squillions. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Urban Cinefile
Daily Express
These days the philosophy seems to be: "Make it huge. Turn up the volume. And throw in lots of special-effects. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Daily Express
Deseret News
All director Michael Bay and his screenwriter team need to do in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is get us to the point where the giant robots show up and start smashing things and blowing them up. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Deseret News
EmanuelLevy.com
Bigger, louder, and longer than the first film, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" shows that more is just more. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at EmanuelLevy.com
The Globe and Mail
The big question about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is, which of your favourite household machines you should take as a date? Your electric toothbrush would surely enjoy the speed and the flying debris but might whine at the scary parts. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Globe and Mail
Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
A college freshman, his auto mechanic girlfriend and others get wrapped up in yet another battle between good and villainous shape-shifting, extraterrestrial robots where the future of humankind rests in the balance. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
ViewLondon
The effects are great and fans of the first film won't be disappointed, but is a spot of genuine emotion and intelligence really too much to ask for? ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at ViewLondon
The Telegraph
Enslavement, not enjoyment, is our basic condition here. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Telegraph
This is London
All this is spectacular and totally meaningless, like a video game transposed to the big screen and worked by a maniacal enthusiast. But Bay is only partly responsible. The list of his assistant technicians is endless - what fun they must have had. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at This is London
Los Angeles Times
Shia LaBeouf is back as Sam, the precocious teen who gave hope to nerds everywhere in 2007's "Transformers" that they too could get the beautiful girl, if only they had the right alien species parked in their garage. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Los Angeles Times
Digitalspy
John Turturro's government stooge-turned-delhi counter worker provides a flicker of a pulse. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Digitalspy
Times Online
It's like being hit over the head repeatedly with a very expensive, very loud train set.After two and a half hours in this bludgeoning company, you're begging Bay to put away the boys' toys and make a rom-com. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Times Online
Eye For Film
For all the Transformers' powers of recombinant metal exchange, this film is so much less than the sum of its parts. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Eye For Film
The Hollywood Reporter
Bottom Line: Crash, bang, wallop as the machines sweep in for another cataclysm. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
PopMatters.com
And so it comes as no surprise at the start of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen when Sam discovers a shard of the All Spark, supposedly destroyed in the first film. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at PopMatters.com
Sci-Fi Movie Page
In short, it's more of the same and whether or not that's a good thing will depend on your tastes. But if you ever wanted to see a tiny robot hump Megan Fox's leg, then don't you dare miss Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen... ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Sci-Fi Movie Page
Giant Magazine
If it weren't for the fact that its guaranteed to become the summer's biggest hit, Revenge of the Fallen is the kind of bloated, juvenile career-killer that would send its director from the blockbuster big leagues to the made-for-TV minors. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Giant Magazine
Detroit News
A great grinding garbage disposal of a movie, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" isn't so much a narrative film as a cacophonous series of explosions intermittently interrupted by needless dialogue. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Detroit News
Empire Weekly
The good news is that the sequel is better than the first. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Empire Weekly
Fronthebalcony.com
Somewhere around the two-hour mark of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a character requests that a plan be made concise and to-the-point. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Fronthebalcony.com
timeoutsydney.com
Comedic elements seem aimed at the pre-teen market and include a robot duo who would make Jar Jar Binks seem endearing - an interesting choice in a movie that heavily features Megan at her Foxiest. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at timeoutsydney.com
The Onion A.V. Club
In some future film class, Michael Bay's second Transformers film will no doubt be presented as the Platonic ideal of sequels. Everything about it is taken directly from the first movie, but blown up bigger and louder. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Digital Spy (Simon Reynolds)
Transformers 2 feels a bit like watching someone else play a video game for two and a half hours. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Digital Spy (Simon Reynolds)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (Bruce Bennett)
Rotton Tomatoes
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen By Victoria Alexander FilmsInReview.com I hated every 149 minutes. This is so bad it's immoral. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Rotton Tomatoes
Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Something is seriously amiss when a movie as noisy and frenetic as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is so boring it puts you to sleep. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Advocate
John Turturro's very human, comic energy lifts an otherwise flat and re-dundant sequel. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Advocate
The Scorecard Review (Jeff Bayer)
While the film looks fantastically overblown, and there is meticulous detail given to the look of the Transformers, it just doesn't make up for the fact that this film is boring, and you're never connecting to anything or anyone. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Scorecard Review (Jeff Bayer)
tonymacklin.net (Tony Macklin)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an impressive potboiler. But its overheated pot has a lot of holes. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at tonymacklin.net (Tony Macklin)
MovieMartyr.com
There's a lot going on in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. So much, in fact, that it's probable that critics and audiences are seeing different films entirely. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at MovieMartyr.com
Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
I'd call it a typical summer blockbuster but then that'd be aninsult to summer blockbusters... ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
ABC.net
It's as if Bay decided that, after the first film, no more plot was needed. And maybe the target audience won't mind that, but for anyone else the lack of an intelligible plot and interesting characters quickly becomes boring. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at ABC.net
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
BET.com (Clay Cane)
The hip-hop talking robots were borderline offensive. Is this the movie's way of appealing to the African-American audience? I never knew that robots could shuck n' jive. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at BET.com (Clay Cane)
Christianity Today Article
If you liked the first, you'll probably like this. I can't say I like either Transformers film, but there's a difference between them. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Christianity Today Article
Rotten Tomatoes reviews
The Autobots, who helped in the war against the Decepticons, have lost their home planet, so now they are working with the military on a top secret project alongside field commanders Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and USAF Master Sergeant Epps (Tyrese Gibson ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Rotten Tomatoes reviews
The Star Ledger
There is clearly an audience for this kind of film, although I suspect most of it is still in grammar school. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Star Ledger
San Fransisco Examiner
I believe that Michael Bay forgot a very simple fact when he made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: the cool thing about giant, transforming robots fighting each other is GIANT, TRANSFORMING ROBOTS FIGHTING EACH OTHER! It is not comic relief, it is not ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at San Fransisco Examiner
Chicago Tribune
At 149 minutes, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is six minutes longer than the 2007 noise machine from which this sequel sprang, but those six minutes are like dog minutes. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Chicago Tribune
Reelviews
Call me old fashioned, but I like a little side story and character to go along with my order of big, loud special effects. Apparently, I'm in the minority, though, because the original Transformers made more money than I'd see in 300 lifetimes. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Reelviews
Newsweek (Sean Smith)
Artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway once famously noted, "Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Newsweek (Sean Smith)
New York Post
SQUARELY aimed at 8-year-old boys and men who never quite matured past that stage, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is packed with so much eye candy you're risking a sugar rush. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at New York Post
JoBlo
I almost don't know where to start with this one. I guess the "good news/bad news" thing is the best way to go. So, first the good news. The Transformers themselves look great. There were a few unfinished shots here and there, but overall, very cool. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at JoBlo
Salt Lake Tribune
A decade ago, Entertainment Weekly looked at director Michael Bay's box-office success, his love of grandiose spectacle and his disinterest in what film critics thought of his films, and asked the question: "Is Michael Bay the devil?"
Bay answers that ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Salt Lake Tribune
Associated Press (David Germain)
A joyless cacophony, an insistent and seemingly endless onslaught, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," director Michael Bay's follow-up to the 2007 smash "Transformers" plays more like a parody of a Bay movie. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Associated Press (David Germain)
AMCtv.com
Like The Core dubbing the ultra-rare element that can slice through diamonds "unobtainium," naming villainous robots "Decepticons" is a lovely bit of Saturday-morning-cartoon kitsch -- virtually perfect for a story about an alien race of "autobots" that ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at AMCtv.com
The Arizona Republic
What else were you expecting from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?" If your answer includes a coherent story, decent acting and direction conducted with anything more subtle than a sledgehammer - this is a Michael Bay film, after all - then keep look ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Arizona Republic
Daily Mirror [UK] (David Edwards)
Bigger, brasher and noisier than anything you've seen, it's certainly a visual spectacle with great special effects. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Daily Mirror [UK] (David Edwards)
What Would Toto Watch?
That draws the interest of the remaining Decepticons, who are regrouping as the story opens in an attempt to revive The Fallen, a long-buried robot who hopes to snuff out the sun. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at What Would Toto Watch?
Slate.com
Thanks to the evil shard, Sam's brain is imprinted with a series of runic symbols that he obsessively paints on his dorm room walls. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Slate.com
Mansized
Revenge of the Fallen is just like Transformers 1, only longer, and that makes it even more boring. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Mansized
Channel 4 Film
Revenge Of The Fallen isn't only louder than Transformers, however. It's longer, it's more explosive, it's more directionless, it's all the proof you'll ever need that more really isn't always more. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Channel 4 Film
Critic's Notebook
The only life here comes, what a surprise, from John Turturro, reprising his role as Agent Simmons. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Critic's Notebook
Rottentomatoes.com
This overlong and overblown sequel is littered with excess to the point that you simply surrender to the nonsense on screen and go with the flow. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Rottentomatoes.com
Little White Lies
Transformers is entertainment by volume. Both in terms of a decibel level that pummels you into submission, and a whopping run-time of around two-and-a-half hours. It feels like a tipping point-a kind of nirvana for the Ritalin generation. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Little White Lies
Teletext
Shellshock soon locks in as yet another monster twists out of carnage. Then you stifle the yawns. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Teletext
Boston Globe
"Revenge of the Fallen" is the kind of movie that puts the Rockies in New Jersey, that appears to send the heroes into the Smithsonian from Washington, D.C., and back out into the Southwestern desert, and if you want to complain, text someone who cares. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Boston Globe
Star Tribune
I've just spent 2 1/2 hours watching a movie and another hour thinking about what I saw and I have no earthly idea what ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Star Tribune
Philadelphia Daily News
Please don't call to complain about my negative review of "Transformers 2," because I can no longer hear. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Philadelphia Daily News
Reeling Reviews
Last year the documentary "Bigger Stronger Faster" told us about steroid use. Director Michael Bay produces movies on steroids, along with the attendant problems, so one could dub his "Transformers" sequel "Bigger Longer Louder. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Reeling Reviews
filmcritic.com
Eventually Michael Bay will tire of shooting orgasmically erupting explosions foregrounded by actors running in very, very slow motion, the sheen of heroic sweat on their faces and toned arms highlighted by an always-setting sun. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at filmcritic.com
USA TODAY
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is proof positive that not every summer action blockbuster has the mettle to be a franchise. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at USA TODAY
Shared Darkness (Brent Simon)
A posed, pop-art cinematic ejaculation of instinctive, unthinking extremes. And no, that's not a good thing, sorry. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Shared Darkness (Brent Simon)
eFilmCritic
I have absolutely no problem calling Michael Bay a liar. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at eFilmCritic
ColeSmithey.com
You might make it out of the movie with your soul barely intact, but the actors in the film don't fare so well. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at ColeSmithey.com
The New Republic
If it sounds as though the script (credited to Ehren Kruger, Robert Orci, and Alex Kurtzman) was written in serial-novel form during an all-night mescaline bender, well, I have no evidence that it was not. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The New Republic
Aisle Seat
The bottom line for me is that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen simply wasn't as much fun as the original. In their zeal to give us more of what they think we want, Bay and crew have sucked all the joy out of their own franchise. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Aisle Seat
San Francisco Examiner (Rossiter Drake)
Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is heavy-metal junk food for CGI gearheads. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
BrandonFibs.com
It seems a ridiculous and futile exercise to dispense with plot details when Transformers is nothing more than a special effects and pyrotechnics extravaganza, with a storyline that is nearly a remake of the first film. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at BrandonFibs.com
LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)
Hollywood & Fine
After seeing "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," I felt a little like the boy who cried wolf. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Hollywood & Fine
Combustible Celluloid
Michael Bay has once again transformed garbage into something resembling a film, at least in the loosest sense: it can be run through a projector and used to sell millions of tickets. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Combustible Celluloid
MCN Review
If you do insist upon having things like plot and character in your movies, well, you're not going to find much of either in this film. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at MCN Review
Smilepolitely.com
More robotic nonsense! ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Smilepolitely.com
Denton Record-Chronicle
Action fans won't feel cheated by director Bay, but beyond the rousing scenes and special effects, this sequel offers little. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Denton Record-Chronicle
The Baltimore Sun
The little-boy fantasy of cars coming to life and turning into giant talking robots from outer space plummets straight into the high-tech junkyard in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Baltimore Sun
Seattle Times
It's a good thing there's no pop quiz following "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Michael Bay's unhinged and hollow sequel to his admirable, 2007 hit family film, "Transformers," is maddeningly confusing. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Seattle Times
Brian Orndorf
In 1995, director Michael Bay, untested and hungry, helmed his first feature, the action comedy "Bad Boys." It was a lean, stylish production desperate to please. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Brian Orndorf
Film Freak Central
The worst summer in recent memory continues as Michael Bay brings his slow push-ins and Lazy Susan dolly shots back to the cineplex with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (hereafter Transformers 2), the ugliest, most hateful, most simple-minded and inco ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Film Freak Central
Seanax
Think of exposition as the lubricant between the mechanical action pieces of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the bigger, longer, more expensive and completely unnecessary sequel to the amusing 2007 blockbuster about giant alien robots that transfor ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Seanax
L.A. Weekly
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at L.A. Weekly
Laramie Movie Scope
The first time I looked at my watch I saw to my dismay that this overlong movie had another hour and a half to go. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Laramie Movie Scope
ericdsnider.com
Wouldn't you know it, the Decepticons are looking for something ELSE this time. I anticipate a third, heretofore unmentioned artifact will be their target in the next sequel. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at ericdsnider.com
Orlando Sentinel
The only real dread I think I took into Monday night's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen screening was that I knew the length. The first one was too long, and this was 2.5 hours. Ugh. At least Megan Fox would be in there. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Orlando Sentinel
Movie Juice!
If you're going to send me a hero, I always say make it one with a built-in cup-holder, Michelins as hip-bling, and car doors for wings! ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Movie Juice!
Cinefantastiqueonline.com
No other critic is going to admit it, so it falls to me to declare that director Michael Bay is an abstract artist whose work is continuously misinterpreted. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Cinefantastiqueonline.com
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A bad film that seems like a nightmare because it is one. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Is it the worst movie of the summer? Possibly. Will everybody see it? Probably. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Independent
Fourteen-year-old boys will get their money's worth. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Independent
The Age - review
Once again, two alien races of giant robot, the noble Autobots and evil Decepticons, wage war over the fate of the planet. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Age - review
Austin Chronicle
Even though there are more Bots and more prolonged battle sequences than in the first movie, it is often difficult to discern precisely what is happening as mechanical body parts unfurl and thrust as they fight. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Austin Chronicle
The Guardian
The cherry on this cake of direness is the performance of Megan Fox, playing LaBeouf's sultry girlfriend - a performer so poutingly wooden she makes Jordan look like Liv Ullmann. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Guardian
Can Magazine
At first the bigger destruction seems to flow. It's like Parkour robots, so even though there's stuff all over the place, you can see the robots moving gracefully within it. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Can Magazine
One Guy's Opinion
The enormous success of the first "Transformers" movie two years ago guaranteed there would be a sequel, and Michael Bay provides one that's even longer and noisier than its predecessor-as well as dumber and more incoherent, if you can believe tha ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at One Guy's Opinion
eFilmCritic
The Decepticons want the shard to free their leader, Megatron, and proceed to hunt down Sam to find it. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at eFilmCritic
The Qnetwork
The sheer awfulness of Revenge of the Fallen suggests that he may have finally passed a point of no return. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Qnetwork
indiomoviesonline.com
Good metal. Great metal. The shredding, the distortion, the extreme volume. Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at indiomoviesonline.com
Big Picture Big Sound
Since there's so little that's positive to say about the film, it's worth pointing out that the special effects are flawless. Man and machine share the screen completely convincingly for every frame. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Big Picture Big Sound
Grouch Reviews
Never in the field of blockbuster movies has so much been spent on so little. That pretty much sums up my feelings about the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Grouch Reviews
eFilmCritic Review
It's a wad of chaos puked onto the big screen, an arbitrary collection of explosions and machismo posturing. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at eFilmCritic Review
Sunday Times
It's not so much "more than meets the eye" as "more than the eye can meet". ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Sunday Times
MovieCrypt.com
... there's no time to digest anything going on or in anyway connect with it because (Michael) Bay just HAS to show you something else... right now. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at MovieCrypt.com
Slant Magazine
No giant robots urinate on humans in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but that's only because they now prefer to douse hot-to-trot individuals with gooey ejaculate, one of the many ways that Michael Bay's concussive sequel proves fouler than its 2007 ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Slant Magazine
Mountain Xpress
In a fair world, I'd be able to rate this monstrosity a negative five stars, but I have to settle for the half-star, since that's as low as we go. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Mountain Xpress
Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)
Antagony & Ecstasy
Shrieking and ugly and tedious and soft-headed, not even giving the thin comfort of being hilariously bad. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy
Tri-City Herald
No white elephants in the room. I'll be brutal. Bay's film sucks with a capital "S" and with the word enveloped in bold italics. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Tri-City Herald
Washington City Paper
Will insult your intelligence, hurt your eyes, and offend your sense of decency until you worry that your skull might explode while your brain trickles right out of your ears. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Washington City Paper
The Daily Mail
More big, noisy junk from Michael Bay. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Daily Mail
CHUD Review
This isn't one of those negative reviews where the critic bemoans how stupid the big summer blockbuster is (although Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is stupid beyond belief. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at CHUD Review
OregonLive.com
"Revenge of the Fallen" almost feels like it's signaling an end-game for blockbuster movies: all sensation, no content, catastrophic expense. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at OregonLive.com
social.richmond.com
I'd rather listen to "Mr Roboto" for 150 minutes than watch "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at social.richmond.com
The Movie Boy
A presold summer blockbuster that takes a $200-million budget and uses it to make the cinematic equivalent of a truck-stop toilet that hasn't been cleaned in a matter of weeks, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is putrid, offensive and life-sucking. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at The Movie Boy
Movie Retriever
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a jaw-droppingly awful movie, a piece of loud, cluttered, stupid junk that stands below any that the often criticized Michael Bay has ever directed. Consider that all the warning that you probably need. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Movie Retriever
Commercial Appeal
Tinnitus with pictures. ...read the complete Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie review at Commercial Appeal
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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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