Movie Review: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was an exhilarating and sensory exhausting movie. I have fair knowledge of the source material and will provide my review as Pro/Con list.

PRO

SOUNDWAVE, the character Soundwave was a good shout out to G1 (generation one) fans. He was voiced by the original voice actor Frank Welker. In the original Animated Series he was a tape deck that would deploy different tapes out of his chest that would transform into different types of robots. My favorite was always Ravage the intelligence gathering Panther. In the Movie Soundwave was a Satellite in space. When needed he would shoot Ravage down onto earth to perform his intelligence gathering.

More Bots, As promised there were many different robots in the movie and they were given much more dialog than the first film.

Explosions, Wow! This movie was by far the most intense I have seen in a while. There was no way you could fall asleep in this.

Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime is hardcore! He is like the robot version of Rambo he has multiple action scenes that are pleasing and destroys Decepticons with a straight prejudice.

Generation1 lingo, although most folks are not down with the old series some of the words used in this movie were classic G1. Words like; Matrix of Leadership, Energon, The Primes, Cybertronian just to name a few.

Jetfire, Jetfire is a new character to the movie but a character that has a lot of history in the Transformers universe. He is a SR 71 Blackbird and is pretty cool. He has the ability to use space bridges to transport himself and others all over the world. Look for him and Optimus Prime to team up and literally bust some heads.

CON

Complicated graphics, sometimes the robots and all of their details are a little too much when in aggressive motion.

Pretender, there is a pretender in the movie (this is a G1 concept) a pretender looks like a human but is a robot. I didn't quite like the execution of this idea but it could work out nicely in future movies.

Dialog, The Autobots were able to have a fair amount of dialog but the Decepticons had very little. In the future I would like to see a vocal standoff prior to a battle were the robots are talking it up and even reference old rivalries with each other.

Sweaty, the humans in the movie were tan and sweaty 24/7. Kind of gross and a little over the top.

Camera movements, Honestly the cameras didn't stop moving the whole movie. At different points of the movie it did get really annoying. In the future I am looking for a few epic shots where you have left to right viewing of a battle with the Robots doing the motion not the camera.

Needless humor, there were about three or four brief scenes that were pretty tasteless and tacky that could have been left out and would actually enhanced the movie.

There is much much more I could include in this review but I really think you should see it for yourself. This is the perfect summer movie and would even do well at the drive-in as the movie is mostly day time scenes that can be seen easily. I rate Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen an overall 3 out of 5 or C average. This movie gets a A for action and entertainment but it struggles to find a heart and fails to deliver what Transformers fans really want which is basically a movie about robots with humans as the sideshow. Not a movie about humans with robots as the sideshow.