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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2 Discs) |  | Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 196
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
UPC: 097360724264
EAN: 0097360724264
ASIN: B002IOPYR0
Release Date: October 20, 2009
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 Transformers 2, lots of fun, enjoy October 22, 2009
D. Inlow (Ottawa, ON Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed Transformers 2, it was definitely a fun movie.
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br /Great special effects, lots of big action, very cool robots, a sexy female lead, a cool male lead and tons of explosions. I personally had no problem at all telling the robots apart, they looked completely different. They did an excellent job on them, very impressive.
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br /Sure there were plot holes, yes some of the dialog was weak but that was TOTALLY EXPECTED. Anyone who went into Transformers 2 expecting the best script ever has serious malfunctions. Honestly, it could have been a better MOVIE but for an FX spectacular summer popcorn movie, you can't go wrong.
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br /If you enjoyed the first one and are just looking for better looking robots, more battles and great FX, you will have a really good time watching Transformers 2.
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 Big chunks of metal flying around for 2 hours, plus Megan Fox October 21, 2009
Michael Ladano (Kitchener, ON)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
First, let me preface this review by saying that I am a Transformers fan and have been for 25 years. Contrary to what another reviewer has said, I don't believe that anyone who going into Transformers 2 expecting a decent script has a "serious malfunction". Orci and Kurtzman wrote this, and also wrote Star Trek. Obviously they are capable of a good script. For a movie with this much budget, you'd think they could come up with a plot that makes sense.
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br /This is a movie to make you say "wow". Not because it's great, or the special effects are any good (they're not) -- just because Transformers 2 messes things up even more than the first one did.
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br /For example, the dialogue is geared towards kiddies, just like the old cartoon was. Then, mixed in the middle of all that kiddie dialogue, is Megan Fox wearing a tank top, then Megan Fox wearing leather chaps, then Megan Fox stripping off those chaps...just who is this movie for? It's either geared for kids with no consideration at all for throwing all this sexual imagery at you, or it's geared for adults (males) and really dumbed down.
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br /All that would be forgivable if this movie had a plot, or characters, or even decent CG effects. The effects were so bad, clearly the crew only had so much time and budget to finish. So when you see a robot called "The Doctor" manipulate Sam's (Shia Labouf) face, it looks like something out of Roger Rabbit, or Star Wars Episode I. When robots are getting blown apart, you see little pieces of junk flying off them, but they don't look real at all -- it looks like little cartoon pieces of junk. Everything just looks fake, completely fake. Except the explosions. Those look real (because they were real) and there's a lot of them.
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br /So many opportunities squandered. The death of a beloved character has no emotion to it, even the 1986 cartoon movie had more emotion to the scene in question. The Fallen -- one of the all time great Transformers characters -- is just another bad guy, not the awe inspiring menace he should be. And don't get me started on the hip-hop-bots. Why does Devastator have genitalia? Was that really nessesary?
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br /There are some shining lights in this movie. John Turturro, as Simmons, is better and funnier than before. There are lots more robots -- dozens. I couldn't keep them straight!
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br /However that is part of Michael Bay's problem. His design team makes the robots essentially all look the same, particularly the Decepticons. There are a group of "protoform" Decepticons who arrive on Earth. Since they are "protoforms", they are actually all identical with the exact same design. Yeah, you get Constructicons -- so what? You can't keep them straight, there are multiples of several of them. Yeah, there are Insecticons -- so what? They don't do anything or have any character. The humans, in fact, do all the thinking, talking, leading, and everything else in this movie. That isn't what the original Marvel series envisioned by Bob Budianski and Simon Furman was about. That isn't even what the cartoon was about. Transformers is about the robots, and yes, they should have some characterization! If the comic book did, surely they can do it in a multi-million dollar movie. But no; either nobody thought to write interesting characters for classic robots like Sideswipe, Arcee, and Ratchet, or they just didn't have the budget to give them the screen time. Sad.
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br /I liked that there was a Pretender included, I liked that we saw a lot more robots, and some with interesting robot-modes, but at the end of the day this movie was just more of the same.
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br /The humour was pretty terrible -- Sam's parents are more annoying than ever, especially his mother (who gets high accidentally) and his roomate is one character that either should never have been written, or killed off in Act 2.
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br /Since you're going to buy this movie no matter what I say, please heed just one piece of advice. Go out and buy some reprints of the original Marvel G1 comic series. Please. Just to prove to yourself that Transformers are not intrinsically stupid. Just that Bay keeps screwing everything up.
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