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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Released: June 24, 2009

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  • "NEW DIVIDE"
    WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY LINKIN PARK
    PRODUCED BY MIKE SHINODA
    COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING
  • "TRANSFORMERS THEME"
    WRITTEN BY ANNE BRYANT & FORD KINDER
  • "21 GUNS"
    WRITTEN BY BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, MIKE DIRNT & TRE COOL
    PERFORMED BY GREEN DAY
    COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING
  • "I'M SO EXCITED"
    WRITTEN BY TREVOR LAWRENCE, ANITA POINTER, JUNE POINTER & RUTH POINTER
    PERFORMED BY THE POINTER SISTERS
    COURTESY OF RUTH POINTER-SAYLES AND ANITA POINTER
  • "NEVER SAY NEVER"
    WRITTEN BY ISAAC SLADE, JOSEPH KING & DAVID WELSH
    PERFORMED BY THE FRAY
    COURTESY OF EPIC RECORDS
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH SONY MUSIC LICENSING
  • "BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE"
    WRITTEN BY DAVID BYRNE, CHRIS FRANTZ, JERRY HARRISON & TINA WEYMOUTH
    PERFORMED BY THE USED
    COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING
  • "BURN IT TO THE GROUND"
    WRITTEN BY CHAD KROEGER, MIKE KROEGER & JOEY MOI
    PERFORMED BY NICKELBACK
    COURTESY OF ROADRUNNER RECORDS INC.
  • "YOUR CHEATIN' HEART"
    WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY HANK WILLIAMS
    COURTESY OF MERCURY NASHVILLE RECORDS
    UNDER LICENSE FROM UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES
  • "THEME FROM JAWS"
    WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY JOHN WILLIAMS
    COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
  • "SUPER FREAK"
    WRITTEN BY JAMES JOHNSON & ALONZO MILLER
    PERFORMED BY RICK JAMES
    COURTESY OF MOTOWN RECORDS
    UNDER LICENSE FROM UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES
  • "BRICK HOUSE"
    WRITTEN BY WILLIAM KING, RONALD LAPREAD, THOMAS MCCLARY, WALTER ORAGEN, LIONEL RICHIE & MILAN WILLIAMS
    PERFORMED BY THE COMMODORES
    COURTESY OF MOTOWN RECORDS
    UNDER LICENSE FROM UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES
  • "THIS IS IT"
    WRITTEN BY AARON LEWIS, MIKE MUSHOK, JOHNNY APRIL & JOHN WYSOCKI
    PERFORMED BY STAIND
    COURTESY OF ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING
  • "CAPITOL M-E"
    WRITTEN BY ADAM LAZZARA, MATTHEW RUBANO, EDWARD REYES, MARK O'CONNELL & MATTHEW FAZZI
    PERFORMED BY TAKING BACK SUNDAY
    COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING
  • "LET IT GO"
    WRITTEN BY CHRISTOPHER L. HOBBES, CHAD JENSEN, BRIAN SMITH & CASEY WALKER
    PERFORMED BY CAVO
    COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. RECORDS INC.
    BY ARRANGEMENT WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP FILM & TV LICENSING

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Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

by Dan Goldwasser July 4, 2009
1.5 / 5 Stars

I honestly don’t even know where to begin with this one.  When I saw Transformers back in 2007, I felt that it was one of the most kick-ass fun stupid movies of the summer.  The visual effects were awesome, the sound design was loud and punchy, and the story and acting were “whatever”.  So now comes the inevitable sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  Everyone who worked on the first one is back for the sequel, and this time everything is amped up.

The visual effects are better.  The sound is louder.  And yes, the bad story is even worse, and the acting is terrible.  So let’s see how to even tackle this one.  (Warning, I will include spoilers here – everyone who wanted to see it has already seen the film anyways!) After the event of Transformers, the military and the Autobots (led by Optimus Prime) are in cahoots to secretly hunt down rogue Decepticons even though they royally messed up downtown Los Angeles in the first film, and just destroyed half of Shanghai in the beginning of this film.  Known as NEST, this co-op team is also protecting a shard of the All Spark from the first film, which the Decepticons want.  Meanwhile, Sam (Shia LaBeouf) and his hot girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox) are going through the usual relationship uncertainties since he’s off to college, and she isn’t.  When Sam discovers another shard of the All Spark, it imprints information in his brain, and – after his bodyguard Autobot Camaro known as Bubblebee saves him from the various appliances that activate when he drops the shard into the kitchen – he heads off to school hoping to keep his long-distance relations active through…. web chat.

In school, Sam’s roommate is a conspiracy freak convinced that there are alien robots out there (and there are), and after a meltdown in Astronomy class where Sam writes all these symbols he sees, a hot girl – who actually is a Decepticon – tries to seduce and then kill Sam, but Mikaela shows up and thankfully they’re off to try to see what’s going on.  Apparently (and bear with me here), the Decepticons stole the shard that NEST was protecting so that they could bring Megatron back to life.  It also then turns out that Megatron has a boss, a former Prime known as “The Fallen” – who is in exile on some meteor somewhere in space.  He wants to turn on a machine that has been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years so that he can harvest the Energon from our sun – but in the process it would destroy Earth.

The truth of the matter is, my head hurts after writing all of this, and I haven’t even gotten to the point of the story – but that’s because I still can’t figure it out, even after all this time.  At one point during the film, the gang goes to the Air and Space Museum to re-activate an older Prime who might have knowledge to help them – and he teleports them to Egypt.  Teleportation is never explained at all in the film, and yet they use it as though it were as common as hailing a taxi.  Then there’s the whole bit about the ancient symbols indicating where the machine is, and they bounce between the pyramids in Egypt and Petra in Jordan as though they are mere blocks away from each other. (Fellas, there’s a small country called Israel in between them – might wanna look into that.)

Yes, we get lots of cool robot fighting action. Yes, we get loud explosions and Steve Jablonsky’s music is fun and big, much like the first score.  Yes, we get less shaky camera work.  But the story is so convoluted as to make your brain hemorrhage.  And don’t even get me started on John Tuturro, or the “racist robots”.  But you know all this, since you (like most of America) has already seen the film.  So why am I writing this anyways?

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