A bloated action sequel so packed with special effects that it's virtually a cartoon
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07/27/09
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Reviews Counted:227
Fresh:44
Rotten:183
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.
Theatrical Release:19-06-2009
Synopsis: In the highly-anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, debuting June 24, 2009, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) again joins with the Autobots® against their sworn enemies, the... [More]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Michael Bay
Reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Maxing the sci-fi elements, Bay brings in 50-odd different robots including two that win my Jah Jah Binks Film Award for comic ethnic stereotyping. Shellshock soon locks in as yet another monster twists out of carnage. Then you stifle the yawns.
06/21/09
While it would be hard to make a case for ‘Revenge of the Fallen’ as ‘good’ in any normal sense of the word, it possesses such brute force that the viewer is left with two options: surrender, or suffer in silence.
06/19/09
Top CriticRevenge 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.
06/19/09
Top CriticIt’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.
06/19/09
Top CriticAt once loud and boring, like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan. And at two and a half hours, it really is very long.
06/19/09
Top CriticBay’s is a cinema on steroids, pursuing a body-builder’s dream of eternal growth -- it must bulge constantly outward, veins popping like twigs from its ever-flexed biceps.
06/19/09
Top CriticTransformers 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.
06/19/09
Transformers 2 feels a bit like watching someone else play a video game for two and a half hours.
06/19/09
This thunderously noisy celebration of the Hasbro toy ticks all the right boxes with the fanboys...the rest of us might suffer metal fatigue.
06/19/09
Despite its few faults, this is this summer’s biggest ticket and ties with Star Trek for the best summer blockbuster of 2009.
06/19/09
Even if it were a more tolerable 90 minutes, it would still sum up everything that is most tedious, crass and despicable about modern Hollywood.
06/19/09
Big, loud and definitely not clever, it's a giant, lumbering idiot of a movie that, were it not for all the explosions, would send the most devoted action fans to sleep.
06/19/09
In terms of explosions, firepower and sheer shrill, all-action, popcorn entertainment it is hard to see how this big'n'bold sequel can be topped this year.
06/19/09
This re-run of the previous thrills and spills displays a disappointing lack of ambition.
06/19/09
The digital effects are mind-boggling, assuming, after extensive pulverisation, that you have a mind left to boggle.
06/19/09
Fourteen-year-old boys will get their money's worth. This boring, preposterous nonsense is stretched to an agonising two-and-a-half hours.
06/19/09
Director Michael Bay has always had a passion for big, noisy spectacles and Revenge Of The Fallen is a bravura display of his ability to mastermind global destruction. What it lacks is the human touch, decent dialogue, novelty and restraint.
06/19/09
Spectacular and totally meaningless, like a video game transposed to the big screen and worked by a maniacal enthusiast.
06/19/09
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.
06/19/09
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