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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
EMAILPRINTDreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 32 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Sci-fi
Written by:
Ehren Kruger
Roberto Orci
Alex Kurtzman
Directed by: Michael Bay
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 24, 2009
DVD: October 20, 2009
Running Time: 147 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, and John Turturro
In the highly-anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, debuting June 24, 2009, Sam Witwicky again joins with the Autobots® against their sworn enemies, the Decepticons®. (Paramount Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The sequence serves no real purpose beyond dazzle for dazzle's sake, but when you're watching it, that's purpose enough.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
A well-oiled, loudly revving summer action vehicle that does all that's required, and then some, within the confines of PG-13: It cracks genitalia jokes, messes around with toys and blows stuff up.
Read Full Review >Premiere Robert Calvert
It is unapologetic about delivering what it promises. Bigger battles. Massive explosions. Megan Fox looking hot.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Cammila Albertson
If you enjoyed the robo-spastic ride the first time, then you should be happy with this movie, too. And if you complained that the first movie was trite and lacking in character development, then you probably shouldn’t even be reading this.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
At least the special effects in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are remarkable: You never tire of the endless variations of robots Bay and his computer-generated effects crew come up with.
Read Full Review >Empire Nick De Semlyen
A super-sized second helping, but the novelty factor and some of the charm’s gone. Hey, at least there's more Megatron / Starscream squabbling this time round.
Read Full Review >Variety Jordan Mintzer
Little seems new compared to the first installment, except that this version is longer, louder, and perhaps "more than your eye can meet" in one sitting.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Hey, Michael: It's the robots, stupid. Despite all the mechanical mayhem, none of the Transformers stand out.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
With its intelligence at the level of the simple-minded, however, the film is not likely to attract moviegoers who seek something more than a screen filled with kaleidoscopes of colored metal. Fan boys will no doubt love it, but for the uninitiated it's loud, tedious and, at 147 minutes, way too long.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Exhilarating or excruciating, depending on your point of view.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Taken on its own, this is a masterful little slice of computer-generated animation, but it gets lost here in the visual racket.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
The man (Bay) just wears you out and wears you down, so much so that it’s easy to pretend that you’re not ingesting 2 hours and 30 minutes of warmongering along with all that dumb fun.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Roughly an hour in, Transformers 2 morphs from teen adventure into lumbering war movie. Bay and his screenwriters squander their human capital in order to show us scenes of 20-ton toys crushing 10-ton toys.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
At least in the last half-hour, Bay's incredibly sloppy continuity and overeager rush to action pays off.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
This is blockbuster porn absent even the suggestion of care or concern for anything that might resemble "a point," save the obvious one to move more Hasbro action figures and animated-series DVD boxed sets. In a word: distasteful.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Revenge of the Fallen just comes off as a bratty kid showing how many swear words he knows.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This sequel to the clever and funny first "Transformers" not only is disappointing, it will give most people a throbbing case of metal overload.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The storyline is so infantile that it will appeal to young kids.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Dazzles the eye, numbs the mind and may cause deafness in some cases. Did I mention to bring along some Excedrin?
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Revenge of the Fallen almost feels like it's signaling an end-game for blockbuster movies: all sensation, no content, catastrophic expense.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
The reductio ad absurdum of a summer blockbuster. It is loud (boom!), long (two and a half hours!), incoherent (poorly explained intergalactic warfare!), leering (Megan Fox in short shorts!), racist (jive-talkin' robot twins!), and rife with product tie-ins (Chevy! Hasbro!).
Read Full Review >Washington Post John Anderson
Much of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is simply despicable.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
The movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
This Transformers is a pile of glittering junk.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The whirl, bang and general bother of crashing gears and gnashing metal ends up suffocating the senses.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Overstays its welcome by at least a half hour. But, assuming that cute Camaro stays in the picture, I expect we’ll all be back for the planned round three.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
An impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Transformers 2 has a shot at the title Worst Movie of the Decade.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.9 (out of 10) based on 901 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Maste R. gave it a2:
Let me start off by saying I've enjoyed the first for what it was but most of this film made me literally angry, it was so fucking shit. The dialogue/ characters was disastrous, Uwe Boll looks like a genius next to this fucking moron and 90% of the time in the fighting scenes I couldn't even tell WHY there were explosions and it just seemed like a shit load of metal sounds. It's also odd how the robots acted so much like humans in the way they fight/ act/ talk. I didn't pick up on that the first film but I did here, probably because there is much more dialogue scenes and so on which were NOT needed and yeah, just literally pissed me off over how dumb they were. Oh and when an old robot is re-activated he has a beard and a walking cane WHAT THE FUCK!? Fucking ridiculous movie that highlights everything wrong with American culture. The mom character especially. oh.my.fucking.god, she was so fucking terrible, I just wanted to stick a chainsaw in someone's eye. And no you can't say "lol just go in it and have some fun", that WAS my attitude before it started pissing me off with scene after scene of absurd idiocy. The humour pisses me off just thinking about it...When the dad slaps the mother's ass, the main douchebag guy says "hey watch it, this isn't a rap video"....Yeah...wow. And the way he says it adds to the annoyance. The effects were spectacular, I'd give it that. I loved when robots got sliced you could literally see very inch of metal, wires and whatever come apart and that was about all I've enjoyed along with some of the action scenes. And the overall story was kind of interesting if it was told better but it wasn't and unfortunately the great story that seemed to be in there just couldn't come out under such retarded direction which is a huge shame. 2/10.
The Fallen gave it a10:
I'm done with these idiots who can't appreciate a good - nay, AWESOME - movie that delivers exactly what it promises - record-breaking action sequences and CGI only Avatar could hope to match. I didn't see any multi-story mech in Avatar that caused a computer to FREAKING MELT trying to animate it. I'm even willing to give the Twins a little leeway, as their lines were apparently the actors' ad-libbed own. Finally, it started back up my unhealthy habit of trying to find ways to put money in Hasbro's pocket by buying the damn toys. I'm counting down eagerly to the War for Cybertron game and TF3 (422 days as of this writing!).
Lockon S. gave it a9:
Honestly, If it weren't for the Mechanical details of the robots, I have not even bothered to watch after seeing the first movie, which was really boring, but after watching this sequel, it made me take back what I said.
Michael D. gave it a10:
If you think that "Transformers REvenge of the Fallen" was great you are may be right.This movie has gotten better than the first movie which was a great summer blockbuster film the first movie made than 700 million dollars that was impressive this movie has made more than 800 million dollars that was really super impressive.See you guys later 4 the 3rd Transformers film fools.
John R. gave it a6:
While the acting is bad, the story is bad, the action, and the fx are awesome. It is a bad film, but the fx are awesome! Popcorn film at best.
Jure B gave it a10:
Wow! I just saw this movie and afterwards came here to see the score and I couldn't believe what i saw. This is the maximum that today's action cinematography can give. The peak of computer technology paired with attractive real shots, with crazy tempo...and with comedy elements and....everything! Action movie that fulfills its main purpose - to entertain people. I am getting this on Blu Ray ASAP.
Sean F. gave it a0:
Awful. There is simply nothing to redeem this film. Where do I begin to describe how thoroughly unpleasant an experience it was to watch this movie! From the very beginning one of the biggest problems is Bays inability to keep the camera static for even a second. The worst example of this is in a scene early on in the movie in which Sam and Mikaela are stood talking to each other in a romantic embrace, this had potential to be a romantic and engaging moment in an otherwise emotionally barren film, however Bay has the camera doing 360 degree whirls all over the place, completely ruining the moment. This is also true for the fights between the robots, when metal meets metal it’s difficult enough half the time to figure out what’s going on, but add Bays ridiculous direction to it and it’s difficult to understand what’s going on most of the time This leads me to another criticism, at times the special effects aren’t so special. There are occasions that the screen was so full of CGI that this film looked a lot like an adequate, but not very exciting, computer game on the PS2. Add to this several other elements such as the film needing editing by at least half an hour, Megan Fox having no purpose apart from to give the boys some eye candy, and the most annoying side kicks since Jar Jar Binks (that’s right Jar Jar has been beaten) and Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen should have stayed down.
