Revenge of the Fallen is messy, unfunny, and way too long
To lend some context to this review, I was a big fan of the first Transformers film. Sure, it was loud and the camera shook too much, but it was a great summer film and a solid take on the idea that alien robots wanted nothing more than to turn into Earth vehicles and fight each other. Peter Cullen came back to voice Optimus Prime, and just when the human characters became intolerable, there was another battle scene. I went into Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with high hopes that this film would offer more of the same, and thinking the critics were merely being snobs when they panned it.
Boy, was I wrong. This is what happens when the first film in a series becomes a monstrous hit, and no one at the studio dares to say no to you.
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