Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
“Revenge is coming.”
This review I hope will serve as an open letter to Michael Bay and as a warning to anyone who still han’t seen Transformers and may want to stave off the urge to claw their eyeballs out.
A couple of years ago Transformers was announced and I was genuinely excited for it… at first. But then I saw some footage and previews and my heart sank. Not only did these robots bear almost no resemblence to the characters they are supposed to be (let’s face it, Optimus Prime looks like a walking red and blue junk pile) but I think the director loses sight of the Transformers mythology (yes, I said mythology.) and instead makes a movie with giant transforming robots and explosions that could have been based on anything and called anything else. The movie made millions.
Based on the success of the first movie (because movies with ‘splosions, giant plot holes, and hot chicks sell loads of tickets to prepubesent boys) Michael Bay felt he could profit off of a sequel. So he contacted the guys who were also working on writing Star Trek (Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman) for J.J. Abrams I am thankful that they put their effort into Star Trek, because RotF has plot holes you could fly Unicron through, and I’m willing to bet that the explosions and fire get almost as much airtime than Shia LaBeouf.
I loved Transformers as a kid. Optimus Prime was damn cool, and bordered on being a role-model despite the fact that he was a robot that transformed into a truck. The character of Optimus Prime in these movies is an faint echo of the character I grew up with.
Michael Bay has a longstanding history of fucking up films with potential and making them into horse shit and Transformers is no different. “The Rock”, “Armageddon”, “Pearl Harbor”,… “Transformers”, and now Transformers 2.
Congrats, Michael Bay.
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