Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DVD)

I lived my childhood, therefore stuff like Transformers, The A-Team, Mask etc were part of toy's and TV viewing. When the big screen live action Transformers rolled out a couple of years back it was ok, it was never going to be entirely faithful to the original cartoons. The effects were incredible, the story ok but there were also some problems, namely transformers doing stupid things such as playing hide and seek around the main human characters house. Well if you hated that part of the original film then get ready for Revenge Of The Fallen. This time Michael Bay has taken everything that was crap about the first one and turned it up to eleven for over two ...  Read the complete review

This is the kind of film that really gives sequels a bad name, in many ways I expected the first film to be awful and was pleasantly surprised, unfortunately I let my guard down and actually thought this film might build on the first and build the story and the franchise further.....wrong!! This film is like a very sheltered boys dream, we have our sexy heroine (Megan Fox) draped over various machinery, without anything to do but look nice, there are some incredibly backward racial stereotypes in the characters of autobots, Skids and Mudflap. We have action sequences that are big on CGI and noise but are strangle soul destroying. Shia LeBeouf comes ...  Read the complete review

This review contains spoilers. The first transformers was a film that left me rather unimpressed. Yes, the CGI was good and some of the set pieces were interesting, but when a film has a budget of 150 million, you expect this to be a given. While it was no means an awful film, it wasn't really a good one with an anticlimactic ending, dodgy script and wooden acting. However, when a film grosses almost a billion dollars, a sequel is inevitable. Bring on Transformers 2, a film that instead of working to remove the flaws of the previous film only makes them more apparant. Where do I begin? Firstly the run time is far too long for a film that is ...  Read the complete review

This 2009 sequel to the blockbuster hit of 2007 Transformers is again directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Again focusing on Shia The Beef's character, Sam Witwicky, we see him leave home to begin university. Cue some relationship worries with Michaela (Fox) as they come to terms with a long distance relationship. Meanwhile, Autobot leader Optimus Prime (again voiced by Peter Cullen) and his team are now working with the US army to hunt down Decepticons hiding on earth. He discovers that The Fallen, one of the first transformers is planning his revenge by getting his hands on "the matrix of leadership". Thanks to a shard ...  Read the complete review

I do not really understand the negative reviews. Of course we all love the old Transformers, the movie and animated series. However, this movie does need to sell, and to do that a lot of what you say in this movie had to be there. Product placement being one of them, as I know a lot of people are upset the movie is commercialized. It is not just this film, but many others. I think that Michael Bay did an amazing job with this one, and you really have to be a "film lover" to understand the depth and creativity that goes into something to create this type of a masterpiece. If not anything else, the last fight scene definitely speaks for itself. The ...  Read the complete review