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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen DVD review
After the sheer brilliance of Transformer’s I had pretty high hopes for Revenge of the fallen. It had been subtle, but visually stunning and action packed; a clever recreation of the amazing cartoons of my childhood with the additional boyhood fantasy of the stunning Megan Fox. However, where the first reincarnation had been a classy recreation, Revenge of the fallen is a shoddy follow up.
Despite retaining most of the original cast, along with executive producer Steven Spielberg, director Michael Bray and writers Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman, it just all came out wrong somehow. The only major changes I could see from the original’s line-up is that John Voight’s role as secretary of defence was not continued. Maybe he saw how bad the script was and decided he had better things to do. A sequel to Anaconda would have been a better use of his time.
Dumbed down and overly obvious, the first things to annoy me about the film are bad dialogue and a poor plot, followed closely by Bumblebee’s transformation into an imbecilic pet and the ladle they used to trowel on Megan Fox’s makeup. Apart from the cool addition of Soundwave, the new Autobots are just stupid, which is even more annoying with what appear to be poorer special effects than the original. To be honest the cartoons looked better than Revenge of the fallen at times.
With an idiotic college romance sub plot, lame attempts at comedy and a fate induced overall story it’s got little going for it. Perhaps the daftest bit of the film is a “comedy” cut scene moment when we see Sam’s mum and dad in Paris being revolted by eating snails, the muppets.
A few cool stunts at the end and a couple of badass Decepticon moments can’t make up for the shoddy storyline throughout. The sort of cool ending and the implications that there will be a sequel leave me with a little hope, but not much.
1.7/5
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