It must be really hard to be Michael Bay. He’s almost universally vilified for the way practically everything he touches turns into an over-the-top, all-action/no-plot mess. The online spoof site The Onion even wrote a fake news article about Bay next helming a remake of the ‘80s cartoon Thundercats—it was one of the most hilariously vulgar things I’ve ever read.
So sometimes I feel sorry for the guy. But then he offers us a pile of utter garbage likeTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and I remember why people dislike his films so much.
If the goal was simply to get butts in seats: mission accomplished. The film made 200 million dollars in its opening weekend, practically guaranteeing more sequels. Sigh.
Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is back, and heading off to Yale, but he has to leave behind both his awesome robot-car Bumblebee, and his beautiful robot-girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). She’s not really a robot, but you wouldn’t know it from her acting ability. The first moment we see Fox the camera is focused on her caboose as she’s perched over a motorcycle, in shorts so short they make Daisy Duke’s look like sweatpants. But surely she’ll reveal a hidden strength and talent, just like in the first film, right? Nope. She’s here to look good while wearing few clothes and running toward the camera in very…slow…motion.
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