Copy-pasted from every journal I have on the internet.
So I went and saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today, or Transformers: Reveng as my movie ticket called it.
It was a mess of a film. It had a few solid sequences around the start and the middle, but it was kind of muddly everywhere else. The opening sequence in Shanghai was great...then we cut to Sam moving out of home and accidentally causing kitchen appliances to come to life...then we cut back to the robots...then to Sam...then to the robots...seriously, it was like lurching from an awesome party into a less awesome party until the two eventually just formed one massive party.
But it was also an AWESOME mess. There were a lot of kick-ass moments, mainly because of Prime and Jetfire.
Speaking of Jetfire, I freaking love Jetfire. He was awesome. I want his toy.
There were several moments which could have been awesome, but weren't due to either really confusing camerawork (if things like Cloverfield made you sick, don't see this film, it is worse), hi-then-die characters (oh hi there Blackout-lookalike, and Sideways, and Demolisher, and Rampage...), fights being pathetically short (there was a lot of ripping apart of robots in this), or all three. I'm looking at you, Devastator. Seriously, he just shows up, causes some devastation, then gets blown up. What the hell.
A bunch of characters I expected to see more of got little to no screen time. Sideswipe, Jolt, and the Arcee threesome have been hyped up a lot-the first two getting multiple toys, and Sideswipe looking extremely cool. But their total screen-time was less than an hour! Instead, the main Autobots were Bumblebee, Skids, and Mudflap, who, while rather cool and funny, were not really the guys I wanted to see the most. Also, while there were several interesting Decepticons, such as the 2D guy (officially called 'Reedman' and unofficially called 'the Bakugan from hell' by me), Ravage, Soundwave, and Alice, they didn't get enough time.
Also, I found it quite funny. While there were some things that just failed (i.e. Devastator's giant steel wrecking balls), there were more bits that were hilarious. Wheelie, Jetfire, Mudflap, and Skids in particular brought the funny for me. Apparently the last two have caused some controversy due to apparently being racist stereotypes of Afro-Americans. I failed to see that-I saw them more as being parodies of the tryhards who tried to be black gangsta/rappers.
One thing I found unintentionally hilarious was the way they kept chucking Prime's body out of the sky, mainly because I imagined him yelling "F**k yoooooooooooooooooouuuu...", or "Wheeeeeeeeee!" as he fell down (nevermind the fact that he was dead at the time).
Megatron and Starscream just getting away was annoying to me since it seemed like an exit more suitable to a TV episode, not a film.
Overall, I think I'd give it 3.5/5, or a 4. It was better than the first film, but it also had several annoying faults.
Also, where did Soundwave and Wheelie go? They just upped and vanished.
The guy who did this seems to be trying to imitate Zero Punctuation and failing to notice that Yahtzee's humour stems from his way of describing things (and his images), not endlessly bashing the subject.Originally Posted by Scattershot
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