The war between Autobots and Decepticons continues in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and only Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg can bring this live action movie to the big screen for the second time. After the success of the first movie, the idea for the sequel is basically to add more about everything the first one got. More big robots, action, comic relief, more sexual reference and most of all, more  explosions.

The plot continues 2 years after the events of the first movie, the Autobots led by Optimus Prime joined the military to combat the remaining Decepticons while Sam Witwicky is preparing for college. Everything mess up when Sam touches the fragment of the remaining All Spark thus making the Decepticons plan for a counter-attack as well.

There’s nothing special with the plot in my opinion, it is incoherent and confusing but of course audience wouldn’t care much. A lot of cast from the first film reprise their role but I surely miss both Jon Voight and Anthony Anderson’s characters. The acting is fair enough, Megan Fox is hot as ever but still can’t act to save her life. Again it wouldn’t matter since it was overshadowed by big robots and explosion. The comic relief brought laughs to the audience but I think they overdone it with some sexual reference jokes. You’ll easily spot them in the movie. Just a warning for those who will bring their small children.

Let us go to the crown jewel of the film which are the robots and its special effects. Again this is a ‘more‘ movie which means the robots were also doubled. Lots of new freaking robots and some familiar faces.  The effects and bringing the robots as if they really exist in the set really amazes me. Kudos to that! A little note though, some robot-to-robot combat are confusing and hard to figure out which that robot sides on. It looks like a free for all fight.

I also notice that the other minor Autobots were weak and spotlight just go primarily with Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee. How about the returning Autobots from the first film Ironhide and Ratchet? Instead Sam is with the Twins all along. They are NOT funny and annoying.

Overall, my review might sound negative BUT it really is entertaining and stunning brain dead action film. Good thing the visual effects, actions, explosions and the hotness of Megan Fox covered up the weak points of the film. The movie is good but it could have been better. Looking forward 3 years from now since Transformers 3 will be out on July 4, 2012.

P.S. I’ll watch it again in theaters this week!

My Rating: 8/10

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