Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review (6-25-09)

This is probably the first time I’ve ever said anything like this, but I seriously think -I- could’ve written a better script, and admittedly my knowledge of the Transformers mythology (even the old cartoon I grew up with) is very lacking.

I dunno, it just makes me sad. It could’ve been done so much better.

Transformers I saw because well it’s transformers… I grew up watching it. Transformers 2, because I was so desperate to get a glimpse of my old heroes, I sat threw the whole movie. The dog humping, the racist jokes, the balls, just to see glimpses of what could be a great movie. And that’s all I got. Being female I got so excited seeing RC in the new movie, but you rarely see her… And I think she died. It happened so fast, I really have no idea. Also confused to why RC is three motorcycles. Not just one… three. Why three? How is she not the hot triplets then? Originally I thought it was because there were three people tagging along and they’d escape on her…

If there is a 3rd I’ll most likely still go see it, even though I know it’s terrible, just to get to see glimpses of the transformers I remember.

Heaven forbid he develops the transformer characters. I mean, I might stop going to see them if he finally gives me what I want.

Oh and by the end of the movie I actually said to myself ‘The army is so cool!’… before I slapped myself and regained some intelligence.

Unrelated… your site isn’t very compatible with Safari or Firefox on mac. Very difficult to make comments. =(

Are we sure this was a Michael Bay movie and not a squirrelking fanfic?

Well, I stopped beating around the bush and said “Fuck it!”, I finally saw it. For free though, I didn’t pay to see this movie, so keep your bullshit to yourself.

It…well…yeah. This wasn’t a good movie, I agree with Spoony and the rest of the critics that ripped this thing a new asshole, but I think it might have been a -tad- exaggerated. Yes, there are holes…big, gaping plot holes. There are a lot of WTF moments and I even got a little mad at one point (like I predicted, early on when Bumblebee rips through the garage to save Sam’s ass…urghh, god I wish I could have reached through the monitor and fucking strangled him). The twins were every bit as annoying as I thought they would be, but thankfully there was a lot less of them than I was expecting…though honestly the other bots like Sideswipe and Arcee should have had -way- more screen time than them. I think one of the twins might have even died, it’s not exactly clear, that last battle in the desert is a confusing fucking mess. There is a lot more action, and the quality of the video was horrible but I bet if I were watching this in theaters I probably still wouldn’t have been able to see what was going on. And there are WAY too many comedic characters, too many failed attempts at humor…I think there might have been one or two genuinely funny moments and that was it. The deceptislut and marbles were…strange, to say the least. And they don’t fucking explain -anything-, like why or HOW a decepticon can masquerade as a human being, or why only a Prime can beat the Fallen, why the hell they went out of their way to make sure the Matrix looked nothing at all like it did in the cartoon, etc.

All in all though, I guess I kinda enjoyed myself. I have the same complaints that everyone else had, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying this is the worst fucking movie I’d ever seen. It doesn’t do the Transformers characters justice at all, and for what it cost to make it should have been much better than this, but I think it could have also been much worse. I dunno, I’m not really sure how to feel right now, I didn’t really like it but I didn’t hate it, either.

And I actually liked Jetfire, I think Spoony was too harsh on him…the beard is a G1 thing so I can live with that.

To me, I rather watch The Mummy 3 again than this. At least Brendan Fraser’s a better actor than Shia!

Ouch, hard beginning there really attacking the fans. Surprising, cause I like your opinion of Uwe Baul (or however you spell it) where you tell them to go watch for campy fun and laughs (except for his recent movies). However, after just watching the movie, I’m going to have to go with Joe on this one. It wasn’t a milestone in film making (but how many movies are), it had continuity issues out the ying yang (but really how many movies don’t), but it was some kinda campy action fun.
I could nitpick all day about things I didn’t like about this movie (like you do), but it took it as a whole and just watched the movie. Heck, I think the funnest part was making fun of it during like the fanboy movie.
Really, I would encourage anyone who likes silly action movies to watch it, on the other hand if your a die hard old school transformers fan it’ll just get under your skin. It’s your choice, watch it or don’t, and don’t let others make up your mind for you.
Spoony, love your work, and good luck with the site crash thing.

What the hell you guys are talking about, you are a horible “critic”. Hell you reviews aren’t great you just filming on the spot instead of being rehearsed. The twin robots were not racist, why do you call them racist? Yes the robots are hard to tell apart but for fuck sakes just enjoy the movie. You’re bitching abotu every little thing , this is a TRANSFORMERS MOVIE they are beautifully animated the action scenes were great. you guys are idiots. Yah some of the jokes were bad but a lot of movies have bad jokes some people laugh and some people don’t. But seriously if the movie was that “bad” why don’t you guys stop watching these movies. Get a day job you fucking idiot.

well first off you calling the twins racist because of their voice acting means you’re saying that ONLY african americans speak like that. It’s the modern language a lot of teenagers and kids are actually speaking like that now. They picked up that speech from the “world wide web” remember in the first one?

Also how can you have a comment section and not expect negative feedback, i love your videos, except for this one. YOU didn’t have to watch transformers 2 but you did, and complain, I didn’t have to watch this either but i did because again i enjoy your work. Yes it is all opinionated but that doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong.

Some of these comments make me wonder A. if some of you are capable of graduating from high school, B. if evolution really can go in reverse and C. why I’m posting here if A or B are true.

I didn’t see the film, so I guess my perspective is going to be a little skewed, but allow me to add a little civility to the discourse here: sarcasm is like drinking beer. It takes some time to get used to it, and then your taste for it evolves, much like understanding sarcasm. Although, the acquisition-of-taste curve for beer should be a little more steep than the learning curve for Spoony’s vids. Then again, we are dealing with some numb-minded persons posting on this vid. Let me give you an example: that posters on the wall comment by Noah was a form of sarcasm. Do you think he didn’t know he had a big Highlander poster behind him?

AkewsticRockR, I’ve got nothing against being self-righteous, but you can’t pull it off. Not to go all Maddox on you, but telling someone “that’s just your opinion” just promoted you from captain obvious to corporal obvious…wait. You see, guys? I know you can’t get promoted from Captain to Corporal. I know it’s a demotion. I’ll let that sink in for some of you while I let maddox do his thing. Here’s his quote on “that’s your opinion”

“This one pisses me off just thinking about it. If you slit my throat right now you’d get shot in the eye with boiling blood. Any time you say something sucks around someone who disagrees, they try to validate their taste in shitty music/movies/clothing by reminding you that you still only speak for yourself, as if their opinions are in jeopardy of being monopolized by your own. Everyone already knows it’s my opinion by virtue of the fact that I said it, no need to restate the obvious you dopey twat.”

AkewsticRockR, you telling spoony he’s just another internet critic is like me telling you that you’re just another internet teenybopper that spells words like cool “kewl” or acoustic “akewstic” The fact that some have donated money to this site and nostalgia critic’s actually means people find it worth while. You don’t need to worry about his audience. He offended none of his audience with at least one cerebral hemisphere which are probably the ones donating money and actually helping him.

Some of you are taking this review wayyy too personally. I’m talking to the transformer fanboys here. Criticizing Spoony for a lack of attention to detail in G1 transformers is tiptoeing around the issue that it is apparently a very bad film. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those guys who says you should broaden your horizons with a film like Slumdog Millionaire or Milk, but a bad movie is a bad movie. If what spoony says is true (and I believe it is) then it doesn’t matter if he gets a G1 or G100000^4 fact wrong. When a movie tries to tell a story but does an awful job, that makes it a bad film, giant robots fighting or not. If it weren’t trying to tell a bad story, I understand.

Long story short (too late) some of you need to cool the jets, grow some brain cells and just enjoy the review. Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite video game, but I love Spoony’s review of it because he balances my bias with some perspective. I have a feeling if he even lays eyes on this post, he won’t forgive me for the FFVIII thing even if he does balance the bias. Oh, and Miles, you really ought to make some strong rum punch, or whatever mixed drink you like, get some friends over, and drink every time Arnold does an ice pun in Batman and Robin.

After a friend and I went to see this movie at the weekend, my friend (who was a huge Transformers fan) actually YELLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET proclaiming just how horrible this movie was, and I’d be inclined to agree with him. This movie actually made me want to stick Van Helsing on (and that’s a movie I absolutely loathe and detest with every fibre of my being).

I wasn’t expecting a good movie; hell, I don’t think the first Transformers film is good, but it at least entertained me if I just switched my brain off. This movie, however, actually made me feel dirty watching it; there is just nothing redeeming about it whatsoever; you can’t even riff along to it or pass it off as a popcorn flick.

I’m glad I pay a subscription to the cinema each month; at least I didn’t spend any money towards the takings for this absolute garbage. I mean, you expect blockbuster movies to be dumb, but blockbusters in this day and age are just flat-out insulting, and this movie is the epitome of everything I hate about modern blockbusters.

Thank God for the internet! I thought I was going crazy for a while there.
EVERYONE I’ve talked to in real life thinks it’s the best movie ever!
Glad I wasn’t the only person who drove away from this movie wanting to strangle something. :/

This is the best review of this movie, I agree with you guys completly.

And this movie is the worst piece of crap I’ve ever seen.

I can’t understand how it’s posible that someone actually made so damn incredibily weak movie.

Kevin, I admit I’m not familiar with the specific stereotypes the Twins are spouting (I just know they’re frakking annoying) but there are speech patterns which originate among people of color that probably shouldn’t be imitated by white people, because of the past history of and present reality of racism, colonialism, and cultural misappropriation. Neither should white people or black people adopt, say, a bad Jamaican accent for the purpose of entertaining (mostly) white people with “Hark at how silly that accent sounds.” It’s making funny of Jamaicans (black people) because of the way they talk, which – again, history and reality of racism and colonialism – is a mean and offensive thing to do.

As for your second point (even though you appear to be addressing Noah rather than me): I don’t think there’s anything wrong with negative feedback. I offered some myself in post #544. But you notice that, unlike you, I did not personally insult either Noah or Miles. I didn’t say “You are a horrible critic” or “you guys are idiots” or “Get a day job you fucking idiot.” In short, I did not attack them for holding opinions which differ from my own and for posting those opinions on Noah’s own website. Admittedly, Noah did say “Fuck you” to those of us who enjoyed this movie, but it was generic, not aimed at you or me personally. Also, he didn’t say it with a particular amount of malice (maybe you didn’t either, but then you need to be more careful what you write). Also, hate to break it to you friend, but Noah’s just a whole lot funnier than you are (at least in your comments on this thread).

You also said “But seriously if the movie was that “bad” why don’t you guys stop watching these movies[?]” To which I replied: “And do YOU have nothing better to do than to complain about people’s movie reviews? Plenty of people enjoy these things; if you don’t, don’t watch them.” My point being that it’s a little hypocritical to complain about somebody else complaining about something, and saying they shouldn’t complain so much.

Also, if you like Noah’s videos so much, do you REALLY want him to stop watching (and panning) movies he considers “bad” just because he dissed one movie you happen to like?

“Yes it is all opinionated but that doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong.”
Um, agreed in principle, but if you think Noah and Miles were wrong in their review you’d better provide a really good argument for why they are wrong (i.e. why this movie is actually good), which so far, you haven’t.

As piss-poor as this movie is, it does provide an interesting look into the human condition. In effect, it prove that by grossly overusing computer generated graphics & by having high production values, the average human being will truly believe the film is high quality. If the effects & film quality are good, then by proxy, should the writing not also be good. Sadly, no. You see, this film was written by Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci, responsible for such debacles as The Ring, The Brothers Grimm, & Eagle Eye.

It’s also interesting to see how the concepts of 3rd grade humor in a movie as positively gigantic as this one can somehow cause grown men to laugh, but once again, I suppose this just showcases where we are going as a species, mentally. Overall, this movie has been tailored from conception to fit with the concept of “ooh, Shiney” syndrome, as in if you can put some flashy things on the screen, your audience will overlook your under-developed plot, unnecessary characters, & sexist/racist comic relief, which is just insulting the inteligence of the common man. The worst part? It fucking worked.

Man, am I glad that I didn’t see it. I had about five opportunities to see this movie, and instead, I took one and saw Public Enemies, which was damn good. I’m not going to watch this when someone at my house inevitably rents or buys the DVD. I’m not going to give it a second thought.

I applauded this movie. BECAUSE IT WAS OVER

All the humanity stuff is pretty silly, it’s just a goofy film with a lot of visual effects.

The biggest flaw was that it was basically 150 minutes of the same stuff, very silly stuff, and visual effects.

what always bothered me out transformers when it comes to the decpticons is
why can’t they discretly get there energy
we hgave to blow up the sun ..and not use solar power???

when it comes to the wolverine movie
at least with there fan service the get the character wrong
but you can tell who the are
here i hear names called out and don’t know who they or rather tell who they are

who was the batmobil tank thing that was chasing optimus throught the forest
who was that??

Spoony, i respect your opnion,but i was discussing it with a friend of mine, and we think that if you the robots at racist then your the one being the racist (i hate to say this, and i mean this with no disrespect to you at all) think about it, in the first movie they say the learn the english language from the internet, and each robot is an individual,like a human,so how come its not possible for some robots to like hiphop and want to imitate the slang that goes with it,so if a person whos not african american likes hiphop and talks slang the same way his favortie musicians talk that person is a racist,i disagree,also i think it is racist to see to robots acting like idiots while speaking hiphop slang you and many others think its portraying black people,thats where its racist,heres an example, in the animated movie surfs up, theres a chicken whos a dumb stereotype surfer, i dont automatically think hes racist becauses he portraying a surfer steroetype and surfer stereotype is a white person laidback with long hair,no all i see is the dumb chicken surfer,like all i see is the dumb hiphop robots, not the racist robots, and excuse the spelling errors, other than that love your work,remeber no disrespect, just a difference of opnion

Just gonna say this. The movie was awesome. Just cus some pissy reviewers go on a hissy fit cus of there menstrual period doesn’t mean not to see a freaking movie. I enjoyed ROTF. Compared to harry potter, potter sucks uber ch0de. Harry potter is like a good book you can read twice then get bored with it. While transformers is like a roller coaster that you get a thrill no matter how many times you ride. And If you seriously have enough time for a 1hour reveiw you need to go outside and get a life. So if you dont agree with me fuck you. I like Transformers and you hermit crabs living in your home 24/7 while people have a life outside the walls YOU rant on about a movie that came out a month ago.

You know, I watched this review before I went and saw the movie. I thought the review seemed so ridiculous. Like no movie could really be that bad. Oh man, how wrong I was! I did expect it to be bad, but good lord this was just so much worse than I could have ever imagined! It was the first movie I have ever seen in my life where I was eagerly anticipating its ending just because I wanted so desperately to get the fuck out of there.

The plot it retarded. The action scenes are completely incoprehensible. The characters are either annoying as shit, shockingly offensive or both, and yet we are somehow expected to relate to these characters and care what happens to them. No fucking way! I hated them all! What the fuck do I care if his stupid parents are in danger? I don’t! Let them both get shot in the face or blown the fuck up! It doesn’t matter to me at all because they are completely unlikeable!

Also, looking at it from a purely Transformers fan boi perspective, they made so many of the robots look either bland and generic (Rock’em, Sock’em Robots?) or just plain stupid. What the hell was with some of those ones that transform into their robot mode, then cruise around on one wheel? What’s wrong with legs?!

They same so close to redeeming it too by having the Constructicons in the movie. But then they merge, and Devastator looks like some sort of weird animal thing! What a rip off! He was one of the most badass Transformers ever and this movie ruined him.

Oh and for fuck’s sake, Michael Bay, quit panning the camera around everything!

“Lets all pray to God that Micheal Bay never acquires movie rights to the Gundam franchise!”
VertigoOne, Do not even say such things! I would probably kill myself as a protest if that cockmongler were to rape Gundman franchise.

Hmm, I wanted to hate the 1st Movie, and I’m harsh when it comes to this sort of film.
Most of us are in the UK, but yeah I kinda wanted this one to suck too.

ANNOYINGLY, AND MICHAEL BAY LOVES TO BLOW HIS OWN WANG…

I enjoyed both. BUT, that is going to watch the film in the knowledge that I may not gain any cultural…anything. Under the surface of it, there are HUGE amounts of pointless characters. The film could do with some…ACTUAL depth, but then again.

What were you expecting? Lol.

It’s horseshit, but it’s colourful, gives you summin to do for…too long.

I really agree with the whole ’sending bumblebee away after just getting attacked’ thing.
After that scene I asked my brother why did he do that and he couldn’t give me a answer.

Yes, please go kill everyone who sees Transformers 3.