I’ma try, try, try to do this without spoiling the movie, but we’ll see what happens.

Overall, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was okay. Not great, not totally wack, it was okay. Was it worth gettin up and going to the 12:01 show for? Probably not. But y’all couple of people lookin at this probably didn’t do that, so that part’s not really a concern. One thing that I pretty much knew was gonna happen happened, although I wasn’t really expecting it to be resolved the way it turned out to be. I think I was hoping for something better, or just different. Overall, it was mostly entertaining, but there were some fairly significant annoyances.

Things I Liked:

- The interaction between Megatron and Starscream seemed to be closer to what I remember.
- Bumblebee’s knuckle game
- Seeing the Constructicons form Devestator (prolly my fanboy highlight of the movie. I was literally about to geek OUT)

Things I Didn’t Like
- The jive-talkin, gold-toothed, illiterate twins. Jive-talkin and gold teeth I might coulda dealt with. Illiterate? That’s the part that got me.
- The “people” part of the story, was once again, wack juice. Like, I really could not have cared LESS about them. There was literally not one human in the movie that moved me…in any positive sense. I kept thinkin, ‘get on with the robots!’
- The officious government agent seems to be as much of a stock character as the crackhead wife/mother in a Tyler Perry movie, but maybe even LESS necessary.
- The resolution to The Thing I Knew Would Happen. Like, really?
- It was maaaaaad long. I got outta there at like 3 o’clock.
- Considering the target audience, there was a whole lotta cussin. Much more than I was expecting, including some words I was not expecting to hear.
- Again with the comic movies introducing characters for what are tantamount to cameos. While I loved seeing Devestator, I was less than enthusiastic about his actual role in the movie.

For us old Transformers vets, I obviously recommend it. For people who don’t really care about the series but are looking for a decent summer blockbuster, it’s cool. If you’re looking to see a good story with your explosions, maybe not.

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