Movie Review: Transformers ROTF
Uh oh.
Stone here. If you are lucky enough to get a ticket to Revenge Of The Fallen, here’s what you will be treated to – Ghetto robots, Autobot swearing, a lot of flaming farts, a high mother at college, some gap toothed gold toothed wastes of space, giant balls, a gansta RC truck and a mad scientist robot, trio of Arcee’s they call some twing who look like GoBots oh and lets not forget the medusa chick robot. Yeah, I have no clue how they pulled that one off. Oh, and lets talk plot holes. For one, how the hell can they detect any freaking Decepticon and NOT know Soundwave is a satelitle hacking into their system the whole time? Or how about his boast of 44 Transformers also include a motley crew of kitchen appliances that seem to have no sense of aim? Wow.
I have every reason to hate this movie. I love Transformers. I greatly enjoyed the first movie, even with its flaws. And you want to talk about flaws? The second is full of them. Namely, the twins. But you know what? I really liked this movie despite me wanting to hate it. I really, really was starting to get sour on it. But I can not help but to just enjoy it. It’s like Termiantor Salvation. You go to it and just let go of everything and have a hell of a time. This movie was really, really fun. And I looked around the web and it is full of haters. Serious haters who are knocking the shit out of it. You know who those are? Those are G1 enthusiasts. I really hate to burst their bubble, but the original cartoon frm the 80′s is ugly. In fact, most of those 80′s cartoons are ugly and just bad. It is our childhood memories that make them glow for us. I loved Transformers when I was a kid. Bumblebee was always my favorite, and in the movies he still is. So G1ers out there, sit back and have some fun already. At least they are trying here, not like the writers on my favorite childhood series – HeMan. Yeah, they turned Prince Adam into a marine who gets sucked through a portal to Eternia and has to become HeMan to defeat Skeletor and his army of robots bent on destroying all magic. Compared to that, you G1ers have it easy.
The biggest thing that I can tell you is never listen to a critic. They only want to see Oscar calibur movies. Everything else is a waste of time. But here, we just share our thoughts. You can take it or leave it. We will offer you some advice, like I did for Year One, but it is ultimately up to you to make up your own mind. Not every movie is made to be Oscar worthy. Movies are supposed to be fun moments of escape. Transformers ROTF did just that. Go, enjoy it. It’s a good movie. Just not so much with the twins.
- Devi-fucking-stator. You can not be a Transformer’s fan if you don’t like the Constructicons, and to see it treated so well, wrecking ‘balls’ and all, it is just an amazing moment
- Optimus Prime is the man. He kicks so much ass in this movie
- I gotta love Bumblebee. He is still awesome
- Bumblebee made me proud by continually swatting the twins down like the annouying gnats thet were
- I still love Megatron. It was good to see an actual Autobot Vs Deceptacon movie
- Lots of ‘splosions. Lots and lots and lots of explosions
- You have to love that they went into the Transformers lore and drug up the Fallen
So with all of its faults and all of the problems, this is still a solid and fun movie. You really gotta see the epic robot fights on the biggest screen possible. Expecially the first one with that giant freaking two wheeled robot. It is a must see. 5 out of 5 all the way.
5/5
this movie reviewer is the dumbest fuck I ever seen lol
He likes this and bruno? Guess he is just trying to be controversial
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I agree with you 100%! >:(
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i think this movie would have done way better if it took out all the stupid jocks and just focus on the what people love in th first movie Michael Bay tried to do too much which mad it lest likable them the first movie never the lest it some what lie this movie it had some good action as will as some good pacing
**1/2
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First off, I loved the 1st movie. This movie sucked balls. The acting was atroushis. The twins sucked ( BTW one of them was voiced by spoungebob). The consistancy was bullshit ( Devistator died in the 1st movie). Transformers was a kids show. This movie was trying to be as adult as humanly possible while simotaniusly being as immature as possible. And honestly, who the fuck cares about the human characters. One last thing ( and possible spoiler) If you decide to kill off a main character, have the balls to keep him dead., this happened twice in this godamn movie
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Sorry but that’s extremely hipocritical, to say that you were almost at the point of loathing the entirity of this movie, and then to contradict yourself by saying that because it was fun it is suddenly perfection.
5/5?! Come on! This movie was a real treat to watch in terms of effects, but it is very flawed in places, you said it yourself, it’s not like because there’s alot of fun to be had here we can just miss or ignore its shortcomings.
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Seriously, everything is filmed in a wide shot and Bay puts in the FX. There’s no directing here. Shia Lebouf is shit at acting. Fox even more shit. This film is literally the worst film michael bay has ever made. it’s not because it’s absurd and the writing is ridiculous; it is lazy, poor film making.
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This movie is so bad I lost confidence as a film maker. It’s that fucking terrible. BAYSPLOSIONS!!!!
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i think it was a good movie.
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There are many movies yearly that escape this rule, often limited-release shows that start in only a few theaters and actually increase their theater count through effective word-of-mouth and opinions.
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I respect the fact that you found this an enjoyable film (an opinion I myself do not hold) and haven’t simply jumped on the band wagon of hate. However, I do not understand how you can state the movie has significant flaws then go on to give it a 5/5 rating (a flawless score).
Further more a lot of people are writing off the detractors to this movie simply as film snobs. This seems like a gross generalisation. I mean, I watched all of Spoony’s long winded review of the movie where he lays on his hate for the movie with plenty of vitriol, yet he’s a guy who watches some pretty awful films and enjoys the hell out of them. Even the explosion ridden mindless kill-fests.
Like any film it all comes down to what you take from it and what you want from a film. I think everyone will agree if you don’t like mindless action movies which focus on big explosions and fight scenes rather then plot, then you won’t like this movie. The crux of the matter really comes down to: is this a good blow shit up and beat the shit outta things kinda movie? A question I personally can only answer no to.
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Spoony ripped this movie a new one. It was actually really funny. He needed his brother to be with him on cam to calm him down..lol. I didn’t mention the racial stereotypes, I really should have, they were appalling. And the dogs humping? Transformers needs this, why?
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Oh my GOD!!! THANK YOU!!! Why does Spoony not share your guy’s enthusiasm of these kinds of films?
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I got to agree with diggerjohn111, this movie was flat out HORRIBLE! I don’t think this movie even deserves a 1/5 more like a big fat 0!!! There were so many plot holes, so many racist stereotypes and sex jokes, so many comic relief characters that do not need to be there, and so much stuff I could do without (balls on a robot and John Travolta’s ass). Those two Autobots Mudflap and Skids are just as bad if not worse as Jar Jar Binks and they’re incredibly racist. This movie insults all Transformer fans and sci fiction fans. And yet this movie will still be a box office hit. Let’s face it people we are all doomed. With Twilight winning 5 MTV awards and now people giving their money to see this piece of shit, people will go proclaim anything is good no matter how stupid or retarded it is. All the movie critics I know hated this film along with Spoony. I’m curious what the Angry Video Game Nerd will say about this film since he is a big Transformers fan.
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I usually agree with you guys, but I didn’t like it. I like action movies, and am far from a movie snob, but I felt ripped off by this film. It was the biggest waste of time I have had this summer, and I have spent this summer recouping from grad school, so that’s saying a lot.
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1/5 for me. Was never a huge fan, I am 40, and Transformers hit North America when I was in High School, trying to learn to play bass (badly), playing hockey at 5 am (actually I was pretty good at that) and pick up girls (usually unsuccessfully). I liked the first film, just for escapism. This didn’t have that for me. I was too busy trying to figure out what the hell was going on. The film made no sense, and yes giant intelligent robots fighting a war and destroying the world of humans are really cool, but try to develop an actual plot guys! It was also THREE HOURS!!! My God! Kubrick only did that for “Barry Lyndon” and “2001″, and it was worth it. This was three hours of me taking bathroom and snack bar breaks to rest my eyes and bladder.
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5/5 Wow. That would be in SHARP contrast to pretty much every single other review from any critic I know.
Are you sure your not just trying to defend a sinking ship? Was it truly “good” in an objective sense or should we look at this review as you being a very large fan of the source material?
Alot of things that i’ve heard that you didn’t address was the:
-Terrible Dialogue
-Story that doesn’t make sense (literally jumping from location to location)
-Despite having bad ass robots, we instead follow these stereotype offensive robots for most of the film completely ignoring optimus prime as a main character and all the other cool robots, etc.
I really cant believe I havent seen this movie yet, but I will soon.
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Look, the movie is flawed, but it is really, really fun. and there is a reason they dont follow Optimus Prime around. If you don’t want to know, dont keep reading this and just skip to the next part. …………… Ok ……….. He’s dead, Megatron makes him his bitch after Optimus made Megatron his. And of course Bumblebee will be with the kid, he’s his car! And they have to go find the Matrix of Leadership to revive him while the other autobots are waging a war with the decepticons who have shocked the world.
The movie is just really, really fun and no in the theatre seemed to mind it for all of its faults. In fact everyone seemed to be having a really good time. so yeah, I stand by my 5 of 5 rating cause it is really fun to go see. You will see.
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No it isn’t fun Shithead! (Please forgive me for saying that to you for “Liking this film”).
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nice review
i agree with everything
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I enjoyed the review however I have to disagree with what you said about G1 fans. I am a G1 fan and I think the show is awesome. No, I am not wearing Nostalgia goggles. You see, I was born in 1985 and was a baby when the show ran. I never saw it. Only when I was about 15 did I discover Transformers and became a G1 fan. So I was already grown up when I first saw them. You are right about the old shows being ugly but the way the told their stories just seemed like they wanted to achieve two things. Have a good time, and give a reason to have a bunch of robots fight. Good enough for me.
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You hit it right on the head – ann excuse for robots to fight. You will love this movie then cause thats what it is. It’s good to see a G1er thats not all crazy purist like me.
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Also, You say the haters are all G1′s – I hardly think that any movie critic out there actually even knows what a G1 is. They are looking at the film’s character development, dialogue, story, and emotional weight.
You also say the movie has alot of problem, but give it a 5/5? are you giving it a 5/5 to counter-act all the negative reviews on it or because its truly a cinematic masterpiece?
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-_-’ Do you even care if it has extremely sexual inuendos and devestator having “wrecking balls” for the kids?! WTF is wrong with you?! Bay has failed on every points you fucking psycopath!!!! (I am sorry for calling you that but why would you like it?! All you said the action scenes were good but the reality is “They are fucking eye sores”!) This film and the 3rd film are complete hazards to anyone’s health! I hate Micheal Bay Forever and these sequels need to go to hell!!!
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