Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers is one of my most favorite movies...It was well made, epic, and definitely not over done. It was the perfect amount of action, good writing, story line, and acting. Having said that, I had relatively high hopes for the sequel to one of favorite movies.

Unfortunately, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen left me with a rather annoying and unknown taste in my mouth. If you haven't seen the movie and plan on it stop reading cause there will be spoilers...

While the action between the Transformer's was awesomely amazing...the less than positive elements were WAY less then positive. The writing was mediocre and the acting was less then impressive. I think that had a lot to do with the writing, I mean there is only so much you can do with lame one-liners. Entertaining characters in the first movie were borderline annoying. Tyrese for example. He only said like 10 words in the whole movie but they were all poorly delivered phrases. Speaking of stupid and overdone comedy...since when did Sam's mom drink the crazy potion and start swearing??? There is an extended scene of her accidentally eating drug baked brownies and loosing her mind on campus, which is after she potty mouth's it up in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Transformers also had tasteful comic relief...it's sequel had distasteful comedy thrown in simply for the shock value and to make up for the so so writing. The sequel featured Sam going to college and being the key to a power source that good potentially be the key to destroying the planet...Ok the plot doesn't sound terrible and it really wasn't. It was all the add-in's, not to mention to 2 hour and 22 minute running time.

The sex factor went up from a 2 to about an 8 from Transformers to it's sequel. There were humping dogs, humping robots, sexual innuendo's and of course, Megan Fox...Fox was annoying and too over sexual. She pouted her lips endlessly and there were at least 4 extended shots of her running in slow motion (not terrible just super unnecessary). There was also the addition of quite a few transformers, one of which was a overly sexual college coed, who's tongue attached to a large robotic tale tried to get rid of Sam. It was actually a little disturbing...

On the positive side, the action was amazing. The transformer fighting was epic and superly well done. There were these twin autobots that I definitely could have done without and every scene with them in it was kind of pointless, annoying, and just filler. I also could have lived with out the tiny deceptacon, as well as, the old autobot. The old one wasn't too bad...entertaining but just a little bit too much. Not to mention that Optimus Prime isn't 2/3 of the movie is just terrible. As soon as he dies you know he's coming back but still...he IS the transformers, the biggest most epic autobot of them all and he's hardly in the movie. He does save the day with Sam's help but it's the principal of the matter...I want to see Optimus when I watch a Transformer's movie!

So here's the deal...if the movie didn't have the upgraded sexual content, unnecessary transformers, language, and poor attempts at comedic relief, it would have been equally as good as the first. If only.......

I would definitely say if you have kids think twice before you make this one a family event. While the idea is good and it wasn't like blatantly terrible...for the most part I was pretty disappointed by it.

Maybe the third will be better...or they could just kill it all like they did with Pirates but who really knows