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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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Reviews Counted:227

Fresh:44

Rotten:183

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.

Australian Rating: TBC

Runtime: 2 hrs 29 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Australian Theatrical Release:
Jun 25, 2009 Wide

US 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... 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 Decepticons®. Michael Bay directs from a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman. --© Paramount [More]

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas, John Turturro

Director: Michael Bay

Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Producer: Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Ian Bryce
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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Tinnitus with pictures.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment 5 Comments
06/26/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Will insult your intelligence, hurt your eyes, and offend your sense of decency until you worry that your skull might explode while your brain trickles right out of your ears.

Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | comment 30 Comments
06/26/09
Tricia Olszewski
Tricia Olszewski
Washington City Paper

A perfectly dreadful sequel that's the filmic equivalent of a 150-minute waterboarding session.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment 10 Comments
06/26/09
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

John Turturro's very human, comic energy lifts an otherwise flat and re-dundant sequel.

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment 3 Comments
06/26/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

If 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.

Full Review Source: New Republic | comment 8 Comments
06/26/09
Christopher Orr
Christopher Orr
New Republic

Put in your earplugs and grab the aspirin. Enjoyable for the only the easiest to please 10-year-old boys; this deafening, tiresome epic is a skull-splitting hot mess for everyone else.

Full Review Source: TheDivaReview.com | comment 5 Comments
06/26/09
Diva Velez
Diva Velez
TheDivaReview.com

I saw Revenge of the Fallen at Imax, which is probably why I managed to stay awake in what for me was the world's most boring movie.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment 25 Comments
06/26/09
Ruth Hessey
Ruth Hessey
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
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These unchained masses of tin men, their cumbersome cubic feet galumphing across screens worldwide...sheer lightweights. With an iron deficiency like you wouldn't believe.

Full Review Source: Indie Movies Online | comment Comment
06/26/09
Kimberly Gadette
Kimberly Gadette
Indie Movies Online

Michael Bay is an abstract artist... all of that hardware flying around the screen...are simply blobs of light and shadow...like paint spattered on a canvas by Jackson Pollack.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment 6 Comments
06/25/09
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

Shrieking and ugly and tedious and soft-headed, not even giving the thin comfort of being hilariously bad.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment 6 Comments
06/25/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Terrorist toys take center stage with humans pretty much sticking around as scenery papering the screen, especially Megan Fox as sci-fi eye candy.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment 3 Comments
06/25/09
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

A half hour of entertainment sprinkled sparingly over 2.5 hours.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment 3 Comments
06/25/09
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

A high-octane, 2-1%u20442 hour diversion certain to stimulate, titillate and satiate the blood and other lusts of the raging-hormone set.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment 2 Comments
06/25/09
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 21 Comments
06/25/09
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader

Transformers: The Revenge of The Fallen is beyond bad, it carves out its own category of godawfulness.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment 99 Comments
06/25/09
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

The Autobots and Decepticons return in this gleefully over-the-top sequel to 2007's successful Transformers, with many of the original's actors reprising their roles -- including Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, and Tyrese Gibson. The clutter

Full Review Source: AskMen.com | comment 2 Comments
06/25/09
David Nusair
David Nusair
AskMen.com

Michael Bay has learned that action film fans like to see action. He's taken his head out of his keister and his camera out of the Transformers' tailpipes.

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
06/25/09
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Hooray for explosions!

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment 4 Comments
06/25/09
Cammila Albertson
Cammila Albertson
TV Guide's Movie Guide

strefei to skopeytro tis se ena koino-stoho poy, gia na antistoihei me ti dieyrynsi toy budget, ilikiaka epekteinetai abyssalea pros ta kato

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment 2 Comments
06/25/09
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

One of the worst film going experiences I've ever had. It's loud, violent, offensive, crude and I had to put up with a screaming brat. But for some reason I still kind of liked it.

Full Review Source: Eclipse Magazine | comment 21 Comments
06/25/09
Michelle Alexandria
Michelle Alexandria
Eclipse Magazine
 
 
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