Much of the movie is computer-generated hash, weightless even with nonstop BOOMS and METAL GROANS and THUDS.
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07/06/09
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:6
Rotten:30
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:Jun 24, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $402,076,689
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
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Reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Top CriticThe movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel.
06/29/09
Top CriticIt is as if Michael Bay was saying "You think I've blown stuff up before? Ha-ha. Wait till you see this."
06/29/09
Top CriticIt’s confusing and excessive and it just missed the mark completely.
06/29/09
Top CriticIf it sounds as though the script (credited to Ehren Kruger, Robert Orci, and Alex Kurtzman) was written in serial-novel form during an all-night mescaline bender, well, I have no evidence that it was not.
06/26/09
Top CriticThe special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant.
06/25/09
Top CriticTransformers: The Revenge of The Fallen is beyond bad, it carves out its own category of godawfulness.
06/25/09
Top CriticThe right notes are struck over and over for the target demo but there's not much for the rest of us. The special effects are no longer quite so special. A fact that doesn't stop Bay from committing more-is-less excesses.
06/24/09
Top CriticCompared to this sequel, the first Transformers, which was released two years ago, ranks right up there with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
06/24/09
Top CriticThough battles are Transformers' raison d'être, before it's over, Revenge will collapse under the weight of far too many of them.
06/24/09
Top CriticBay seems to think that just showing us a bunch of brightly clashing metallic limbs (accompanied by lots of noise) is enough to make us faint in our seats with excitement.
06/24/09
Top CriticA well-oiled, loudly revving summer action vehicle that does all that’s required, and then some.
06/24/09
Top CriticTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment -- and be grateful.
06/24/09
Top CriticWhat's wrong here is that there's so much swirling, relentless action, indistinct robot characterizations and over-caffeinated techies loose on the special-effects machines that the movie, in mere seconds, achieves incoherence.
06/24/09
Top CriticIn Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the director’s subject is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène.
06/23/09
Top CriticI've just spent 2 1/2 hours watching a movie and another hour thinking about what I saw and I have no earthly idea what Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is about.
06/23/09
Top CriticSo what if he can’t put a coherent series of shots together? Bay’s going for pure sensation, and everyone knows dramatic continuity is for women and the weak.
06/23/09
Top CriticThe action-chase-battle sequences of Transformers are cutting-edge and undeniably powerful.
06/23/09
Top CriticBecause Bay bombards you with so much, it's easy to forget that he can be a gifted technician.
06/23/09
Top CriticIt's all pretty numbing.
06/23/09
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