Tranformers -Revenge of the fallen

There are many things a man may fight for, love of his country, revenge or the allspark, creator of all life...like ever. This is Micheal Bay's second outing into the Transformers series and after the huge success of his last film with its fantastic blend of a teenage ROM com with sentient robotic beings kicking the coolant out of each other thrown into the mix; expectations were pretty high for the sequel.

The films plot is somewhat Jumpier, and forgive the obvious ridiculousness of what i am about to say, less realistic. Basically the good old autobots (originals like Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Iron Hide) are all still on earth and have teamed up with the American and for some elusive reason British special forces to create NEST, the much loved task force from the cartoons. A few new auto bots are on the scene. Three take the form of motorbikes and have feminine personalities. Also two robots known as the twins have made their way onto the scene.

For any one familiar with the hatred Jar Jar binx received after SWe1 times it by 10,000 and you will share the distaste i felt for these two. It was unnecessary and ineffective comic relief the film suffered greatly for it.

That's not all that was bad, Bay's direction is terrible in the emotional scenes, at the death of a very central character i was complacent and not really upset at all, and i am a lifelong fan of the franchise. It was poorly pieced together there were massive plot holes. Unexplained time lapse and sam pulling a combat knife out of thin air stuck in my mind, at one point involving a taser i actually made myself roll my eyes. The worst however was the insertion of a new kind of deceptacon, disguised as a beautiful girl who nearly assassinate sam, but then is gone soon after her brief yet huge amount of screen time.

Shia Le Beouf and Megan Fox's obvious chemistry seems less obvious initially with Le Beouf's character Sam Widwicky appearing more confident (the status quo returns in later scene). The pair's acting talent shows throughout the film and was extremely compelling it could have saved the film were it not for the poorly edited soundtrack which gave most of the film a cheesy second last scene of Armageddon kind of feel to it.

The Film had obvious shortcomings and as a true fan of the franchise it was a huge leap for me to admit to being a fan of the first blockbuster film and i really have been excited about a sequal since i saw the original but now i feel betrayed.

With a third film in the works lets just hope this trilogy is like Indiana Jones good to start, Poor In between, Great to finish. Fans of the original should go but don't expect to prove me wrong, i went in with a mind more open than a monk on acid and i was sorely disappointed.

One and a half eggs out of five.

Gonzo