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[This was supposed to be posted a few weeks ago, but I completely forgot to finish my draft. Hahaha.]
More alien robots? Check. Bigger explosions? Check. More Megan Fox? Double check.
Seriously, that was all Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was about. Alien robots, explosions, and Megan Fox. While I'll admit that I had a great time watching it with a friend and my boyfriend, I started to have second thoughts when I actually sat down and thought about it.
Plot Overview
The film's plot...wait, what plot? The plot was barely even there amidst all the KA-BOOM, slapstick comedy, and Megan Fox eyecandy. There were so many damn holes in the supposed plot that I lost track of them all. The things I had the most trouble wrapping my brain around were Sam Witwicky's strange lack of common sense to use the Matrix shard to revive Optimus Prime when a similar piece had successfully revived Megatron (maybe they could argue that Optimus is a Prime and is therefore special and different from regular Transformers, but that wasn't made clear in the film), and the Decepticon that transformed into a college hottie (LOLWHUT?). I won't go into detail on this anymore, since over at actually discusses the plot holes and the rest of the film's problems much better than I - or probably anyone else - could.
Review/Verdict
On the plus side, the action sequences in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were made of pure awesome. Some people have complained that those scenes were too hard to follow, too nausea-inducing, or too full of Megan Fox's bouncing breasts in slow motion, but I honestly enjoyed watching the action sequences. The action sequences in the first film were worse, with everything being a bit too zoomed-in on the wrong places and the choreography needing a bit of work. Watching Optimus doing acrobatics that somehow reminded me of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell amused me (and no, I'm not implying that Optimus is feminine in any way). My only complaint about the action sequences in Revenge of the Fallen is that they were far more brutal compared to the first movie, or anything I remember from the Transformers franchise. Optimus saying "Give me your face!" while ripping his opponent's face off was kind of scary.
All of this makes me wonder what'll happen in Transformers 3. I'm not really expecting much after this film, but I just hope they don't go through with Tom de Santo's idea for somehow including the Dinobots. Not that I hate the Dinobots, but let's not kill the rest of the Transformers universe in this trainwreck. Kthxbai.
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