To my fellow Transformers fans…

If you have ever enjoyed anything about Transformers, do NOT see Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen.
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the bad reviews warning you off, but you’re probably thinking to see it anyway. Well, it’s not as bad as the reviewers say. It’s worse.
This movie is horrible beyond belief.
Granted I didn’t really like the first one too much. But it sort of started to grow on me after a few more viewings. It could have been a good jumping point into a decent Transformers movie series. ROTF should have been their chance to move on from the mistakes of the first movie and really get into what the movies should be about, the Transformers. Instead it took everything that was wrong with the first movie (the lame attempts at humor, the over-focus on the humans, and the poorly introduced Transformers) and made it a thousand times worse. TF2 is more of the adventures of Sam and his irritating friends and family with appearances by decidedly one dimensional Transformers. Most of the new Transformer characters are barely introduced. In fact, calling these Bayformers ‘characters’ would be incredibly generous. They are less characters then they are tools to create more explosions. Don’t get me wrong, I like explosions. But unfortunately the movie is called ‘Transformers’ and not ‘Explosions’.
I’d say ROTF is comparable to Star Wars Episode I. You walk out of the theater wondering how in the world anyone could mess up such an awesome franchise this badly. Like Episode I, the few and far between cool things (Darth Maul or in ROTF’s case Soundwave and Ravage), cannot in anyway make up for the godawful mess that is the rest of the movie. Wheelie and the horribly racist twins may as well have been three Jar Jar Binx’s running around.
Also the Fallen was horrible. Megatron does not work that way Seriously, with decades of Transformers mythos to work off of someone should have been able to come up with something better than this convoluted plot.
In short, if you in anyway enjoy Transformers, don’t bother with ROTF. It’s not worth it.

Away!

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