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Originally Posted by Excalibur
Well the problem with this movie is that the story doesn't grab your attention. The action scenes were good, but that's all, the last battle in the desert seemed like a rehash of the desert battle scene from the first movie. We see too much screen time with Shia Labow or whatever his name is. Everytime the scene went back to him, I wanted to hang myself. The plot seemed full of too many holes, we got too many cliche characters, and comic relief like those 2 black sterortype cars with the gold teeth, the balls on the Devastator. The full ASS SHOT and front shot on the big screen. Megan Fox being a sex symbol being TOO much. I mean who details a motorcycle posing over it like that. The relationship is not believable. The parents are annoying, like the mom, we see 2 dogs fucking each other twice and once was more than enough and not funny. And in the end, nothing seems to be accomplished. It tried to be hard to be epic when it should tone it down.
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Thing is, people complained that the Transformers didn't do jack shit in the first movie (which I loved, along with the vast majority of Michael Bay's films).
Now, there's enough robot action and backstory to make Grant Imahara piss himself silly...and people still bitch.
As for LeBouf, he really seems to be getting better with each film. I remember him being the worst thing about I, Robot. Not so here - in fact, this might be the first Bay movie since the Rock where I've yet to find a single bad performance from anyone (and when I say bad, I mean sweet-Jesus, stop-the-presses, this-makes-Sci-Fi-Saturday-night-specials-look-awesome bad). Even John Tutorro, who I kinda hated in the first movie, redeemed himself quite a bit in Revenge of the Fallen. And I'm going to call it here and now - provided she keeps a decent head on her shoulders, Megan Fox will probably end up being hailed for some great performances in the future. Of course, if you think this is going to be one of them...*snickers*
I ended up seeing the first Transformers in theaters three times, because it was simply a really, really fun rollercoaster ride. Revenge of the Fallen takes all the good that the first one had and drops a 2000-lb JDAM full of concentrated awesome on it. The shit-eating grin on my face as I left the theater Wednesday night said that I will be back for this one again.