Compared to this sequel, the first Transformers, which was released two years ago, ranks right up there with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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06/24/09
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 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... [More]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Michael Bay
Reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThough battles are Transformers' raison d'être, before it's over, Revenge will collapse under the weight of far too many of them.
06/24/09
Top CriticTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen is more proof [Bay] has a great eye for scale and a gift for visceral amazement.
06/24/09
Revenge of the Fallen entertains when things are being smashed, squished, ripped apart and blown into tiny pieces. The Transformers' animations and the chaos of their combat are intense and spectacular.
06/24/09
Revenge of the Fallen almost feels like it's signaling an end-game for blockbuster movies: all sensation, no content, catastrophic expense.
06/24/09
This is cinematic poetry for pinheads. It’s less of a film than a reason for a noise ordinance. But for the faithful -- action aficionados and Transformers disciples -- it indisputably delivers.
06/24/09
If the robots in Revenge of the Fallen are so menacing, why can't they outrun Shia LaBeouf?
06/24/09
Bay seems to think that just showing us a bunch of brightly clashing metallic limbs (accompanied by lots of noise) is enough to make us faint in our seats with excitement.
06/24/09
The simplest thing Bay could have done to clarify the stakes of the robot wars would be to visually distinguish the robots from one another in some way. Armbands? Shirts and skins? "Hello, My Name Is" stickers?
06/24/09
A well-oiled, loudly revving summer action vehicle that does all that’s required, and then some.
06/24/09
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment -- and be grateful.
06/24/09
What's wrong here is that there's so much swirling, relentless action, indistinct robot characterizations and over-caffeinated techies loose on the special-effects machines that the movie, in mere seconds, achieves incoherence.
06/24/09
Top CriticAn over-the-top movie that smashes and bashes the senses.
06/24/09
Convenient story leaps, shamefully inappropriate elements, completely incoherent action, and frustratingly lowest-common denominator "comic" relief.
06/24/09
This celluloid abortion should be buried in a vault and shown to film students as an example of big Hollywood at its worst.
06/24/09
Never in the field of blockbuster movies has so much been spent on so little.
06/24/09
Tão ruim que deveria figurar numa cláusula adicional da Convenção de Genebra para que tivéssemos a certeza de que não seria exibido como forma de tortura a prisioneiros políticos.
06/24/09
The cluttered storyline of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen amounts to a convoluted treasure hunt.
06/24/09
...an ungainly and incomprehensible assault on the senses.
06/24/09
I swear to you that I have never had a film experience that felt longer than the whopping 149 minutes of Revenge of the Fallen, every single one of which I wish I had spent doing something else.
06/24/09
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