OMGWOWZOMGWOWBBQ!!!!1!!
it didnt suck as bad as i thought it would!!!

i could like revenge of the fallen. its a lot better then the first Michael Bay... i mean the first transformers, sorry, the presentation of his name confuses me about the titles sometimes (bam!).

this one has a BIT more character development. not as much as id really like to see, but enough so its not a bunch of paper cutouts dancing between explosions and giant robots.
for the most part.
the witwickys are still flatter then a pancake. near the end they try to give them a bit more character, but it feels slightly contrived to me.
the autobots are much better fleshed out, so no longer jumping between peeing jokes (theres only one in this movie) and action heroes. the decepticons also actually get to say a few lines beside stuff to the effect of "die inferior scum"
megatrons dialog kinda sucks though.
and the movie is full of so many cliche and occasionally out of place one liners that it gets really annoying. hell, even in the cartoon i dont remember optimus saying 'roll out' more then at most once an episode.

the camera work was better in some ways and worse in others. it didnt jerk and move around ALL the time, and occasionally was handled average.
however...
the camera man kept hiding behind things.
theres several scenes where the object obviously drawing the eye is partially obscured by the edge of the screen, and some where one object takes up the entire view with a hint of whats around it at a corner.
at one point a parachute covers the screen and stays there way too long while stuff is happening. it would work if we could see silhouettes, but no, we get nothing but sound and parachute fabric.
overall, when the camera wasnt diving behind people places and things the movie was much easier to follow visually.

i liked the redesigns better in this one.
a lot better.
devastator is no longer the jolly green giants evil mechanical twin and feels like a seriously bad thing to be anywhere near.
soundwave worked a lot better in his role as a satelite and he was still in his old character. i was happy, i always liked him.
ravage... well... i liked his new design... but then they went and RENAMED HIM! WTF?!
it was nice to see RC and her sisters even if we just catch blurry jittery glimpses and she gets shot in the back.

...okay... and the twins.
what.
the fucking hell.
was up with them?
they were gangsta rap flunkies.
what did they do in the movie besides pester the internet guy (who was also almost entirely pointless beside leading them to the former black ops guy. and even that spike could have handled figuring that out on his own.
the twins literally did nothing of any use to the story. they tackle devastator... but dont do any actual good. the exploding gas truck was more useful, and that was DEVASTATORS OWN FAULT!
they did NOTHING but bouncing around arguing and acting like bad hiphop comedy!! the stupid little REMOTE CONTROL TRUCK DECEPTICON was more use to the story!!!
if Bay is going to throw in a couple random transformers that are going to be so blatantly obviously black stereotypes he could have at least made them do some good instead of fight eachother and be useless. normally i take claims of racism in a movie to be over sensitized crap, but for once i think theres a point to it!

i guess im glad we saw it in theatres simply because some of the movie looked impressive on the big screen, but i wont see it again, and think that $6 a piece for a matinee showing was just barely worth it.

overall: 4 paws up, if for no other reason then that it was better then the first one.






and i still wanna see Soundwave vaporize a tyrannosaurus.