Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

This was touted by one of my friends as "More robots, more action and more Megan Fox", so why wouldn't I go and see it?

It delivers on all three scores, and is a good sequel to the first film which expands on the story, however it has failed to learn from the mistakes of the previous film. Huge metal robots fighting each other is great, but often they are moving so fast in the combat that you can't see what's going on. I had to wait for a high def version of the first film to truly appreciate it, and I believe the same will be true here.

Without giving away any spoilers, the Decepticons are back, and they're searching for something. The story follows on well from the first film, with many plot threads picked up again. Jon Voight's absence was handled quite well, I thought.

The same mix of humour, action and adventure is retained from the first film, and expanded upon. There are a few surprising appearances, and there are even more transformers in this sequel, which was to be expected, I suppose. As a result, many of the robots don't get a lot of screen time.

There's a fairly enormous collapse of the fourth wall near the end of the movie which could have been avoided by some simple location planning and fore-thought. Plus, and this may simply have been the Odeon's stupid audio set up, but I left with a bit of a headache due to all the explosions.

As usual, there already seems to be an influx of cheap toys onto the market to support this film, including a new console game. One can only hope it's better than the first game. Having said that, this wouldn't be hard.


Score: B

OQ: "Don't tempt me..."