Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen – Movie Review

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) is an action pack CGI/live action film that continues the story about the raging war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but takes us back into an earlier time in history where an ancient race of transforming robots landed on Earth. These ancient robotic beings travel to the far reaches of space in hope drain energy from stars and convert them into a resource material called Energon in order to power the AllSpark (seen as the cube in the previous movie). In this ancient era, the Dynasty of the Primes are the ones in power of the weapon they called the Sun Harvester which they use to drain the stars in the universe.

The Dynasty agreed they will only take the stars of uninhabited solar systems, basically stars with planets that have no living organisms; however one of the members in the Dynasty came to Earth and wanted to drain the sun while there was still life on the planet and was later named and known as “The Fallen”. For his own views and hatred toward the planet Earth and its inhabitants, began to construct the Sun Harvester, but was stopped by the Primes. In order to save Earth from The Fallen, the Dynasty of the Primes sacrificed themselves and hidden away the Matrix of Leadership, the key that powers the Sun Harvester machine.

And so, many generations later, The Fallen returns to Earth to finish what he started in order to gain Energon and build up his army.

Sam Witwicky, played by Shia LaBeouf, who in the previous film becomes involved in a war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, has grown up and was heading to college. In order to maintain his relationship with Mikaela Banes, played by Megan Fox, they would have to have to communicate through webcam chat over the internet (which is amazingly popular trend to do when couples, friends, or relatives are far apart from each other).

Before he went off to college, he noticed that he still had a piece of the AllSpark and when he touched and looked at it, the AllSpark fragment reacted and gave Sam some sort of symbolic map to where the Matrix of Leadership is located. The fragment became too hot for Sam to hold onto and fell to the floor burning its way to the kitchen where it reacted to metal and made everyday electronic kitchen machines into transformers and caused a heck of a mess.

So skipping ahead a bit, Sam travels to college. They show us the typical university college life which I still have to witness for myself if this is what really goes on (x.x), with typical weird roommates, hot college guys and girls, parties, and of course class lectures with 100-200 students in an auditorium. This is the scene that cracked me up the most. A teacher walks in eating an apple and talks about physics. He takes a bite, drops the apple, and kicks it to a hot young lady at the front row who says thank you and the teacher replies “Finish it for me”. The way the angles in those shots played reminded me of an adult film-like setting, so I nearly bursted out laughing, covering my mouth as hard as I can while the audience in the theatre room was quiet as hell. The woman next to me gave me a dirty look (They eventually walked out in the middle of the movie x.x).

Anyway, during class, Sam had a weird occurrence of reading the entire class text book in 5 seconds and going nuts claiming that the teacher was wrong. With a freak-out during class, he walks out and wonders what is going on with him and what the symbols he is seeing mean.

Now without spoiling a bunch of things for the movie, I will stop here about the story telling, the film is amazingly awesome, a great movie to watch that has LOTS of action and transforming ^^. There are many scenes that will leave you laughing pretty hard and really get you into the movie that you won’t even have time to eat your snack because you don’t want to miss ANYTHING!

10/10 Great Job at creating this movie!

Oh I forgot one thing…the CGI on Megan Fox is amazing, it’s too real to be real!