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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 6

  famously a strike picture and filmed around its injured star, its authorship given almost exclusively over to Michael Bay, this is what happens when you let him jerry-rig a $200 million tentpole. utterly shapeless mayhem, lurching, leaping from one explosion of excess to the next, blissfully and almost antagonistically unself-conscious, a diamond forced into existence by a kryptonite-poisoned Superman's fist. not only does this feature a gigantic parachute-farting alien robot disguised as a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, it is also packed with the as-yet-unrivaled densest, most ostentatiously near-abstract frames (and some of the most beautiful and plastic and destructive) of Bay's career, and it is a glorious cacophony of burning chrome, corporate manifest destiny, and shitty gay jokes. the finale takes place (and was actually filmed) atop the Great Pyramid of Giza, just because. this is what Milton meant when he wrote that the Devil saw how awful goodness was, except that Bay feels no loss of virtue to pine.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 18

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  2009. Modern Warfare 2, with its 'No Russian' mission, would be released in the same year. Films like The Taking of Pelham 123, Drag Me to Hell, Orphan, The Human Centipede, even Watchmen etc. signaled a shared anger in the midst of economic collapse. Michael Bay, during the WGA strike, grabbed $200 million and, with the "help" of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, made Revenge of the Fallen, an effort of Maximum Bay and peak vulgar chaos. There are no limits to the lowbrow horrors of its humor, the rapid clusters of bombarding action, the ruthlessness of its length. It doesn't seem to ever stop and yet it's gorgeous, stupid, dumbfounding. It breaks my brain while I watch it,…

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★½ 9

  Rotten Tomatoes: 20%
  Metacritic Metascore: 35
  IMDb: 6.0

  31/100

  Release Date: 24 June 2009
  Distributor: Paramount Pictures
  Budget: $200M
  Worldwide Gross: $836M
  OSCAR Nominations: 1
  Total Film Awards: 15

  Master Sergeant Epps: "We've shed blood, sweat, and precious metal together..."

  SYNOPSIS: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

  I was really looking forward to this follow up to the 2007 Blockbuster which I believed was a really good action film and a great way to kick off a possible franchise. I'm very aware of director Michael Bay's history and his habit of making mindless popcorn…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★ 8

  Fucking hell.

  For a few minutes, I was starting to wonder if maybe I had judged this thing a little too harshly. Then there were literally 135 more minutes, most of them as shitty as a used diaper.

  I am trying to find nice things to say about TRANSFORMERS 2. At least it's a wee bit more focused than the first movie, which has at least a half a dozen main characters and four different plots all going at once. There are, as always with Bay, some truly impressive visuals. Some of the character designs are legitimately impressive. And, y'know what? I kind of like Megan Fox. She's sort of charming in the rare moments Bay actually lets her speak.

  Otherwise? It's not good, okay? It's. Just. Not. Good.

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  Review by evan ½ 1

  My favorite part of this movie was sitting behind Shia Labeouf, watching Shia Labeouf cringe and sink into his seat, then falling asleep for a minute, waking up, noticing Shia has left his seat, and turning my head to see Shia Labeouf passed out on the ground next to me. Then, when some fan tried to wake him up, he aggressively pulled a jacket over his head. He did not want to see Transformers 2.

  #ALLMYMOVIES

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  Review by Lee Scovell ★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Why is this movie so bad? How about the charisma vacuum that is Shia Leboeuf. How about indistiguishable robots. How about unwatchable fight scenes featuring indistinguishable robots. How about Sams "Hilarious parents". How about racist Autobots. How about Megan Fox being treated like a sex doll, bent over a bike with a shot so invasive you can see what she had for breakfast that morning. How about an old age robot who - for some unknown reason - suffers from flatulence. How about a "hilarious" midget joke. How about Devastators wrecking ball testicles. How about the fact that this film is called 'Revenge Of The Fallen' when there's no revenge by The Fallen whatsoever, and when this "Uber-Transformer" does eventually gets off his metal arse, he's killed within two fucking minutes. Truly abysmal. I think giving this piece of shit one star is incredibly generous, but they caught me in a good mood. Well done.

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★ 10

  i'm sorry

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★ 4

  michael bay actually went back in time and built the pyramids just so he could blow them up in this movie

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  Review by ConnorEatsPants ★★★★ 10

  There’s poetry to be found in every creative endeavor produced by Human beings. I identify with this one.

  
  I rate this movie how I rate myself.

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  Review by Wes ★★★★ 5

  picture: its 2009. my stepdad drives me daily to middle school at 7am and Gives You Hell by all american rejects plays on the radio like clockwork. my family still has the parental controls on the tv so i cant watch family guy. i mow down a crowd of people in an airport in modern warfare 2. new divide by linkin park releases just in time for the release of this film, and i download the entire ROTF soundtrack on my memorex mp3 player and listen to it on repeat for hours in my room. i see ROTF in theaters and its my favorite thing ever. life is good.

  picture: its 2021. i miss several days of my anti anxiety medication. i have tattoos now. i watch ROTF on a cozy saturday night and its my favorite thing ever. life is good.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★ 3

  Ok my brain is actually starting to hurt now. Michael Bay's epic improvised expository zone-outs through human history. It's a very thin line that I totally understand people not caring about the distinction between but this feels clumsily ugly rather than impeccably controlled ugly, and it starts to take a toll on the vibe after a merciless 7 hours. The only thing that rivals the endless exposition in this is the sheer volume of horrifying improv comedy, has to be the most in a Bay movie outside of maybe the first Bad Boys which I just can't get behind. I respect his taste in character actor comedians but it's just objectively his worst compulsion that he's the least skilled at.…

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  Review by trin ★★½ 3

  spongebob humping megan foxes leg