The Autobots have been working with the government to kill the remainder of the of the Decepticons left after the death of Megatron. Sam is going to college and hoping to leave his battling robot days behind. Then surprise Megatron is alive and there is a new giant war coming to earth and Sam is the key to everything. Opitmus Prime dies, stuff blows up, people run, slow motion, we end up in Egypt, Sam dies then doesn't, Optimus prime lives, good guys win. As if there could possibly be anything unpredictable about a giant summer movie. I didn't hate it though, for the following reasons. Shia LeBouf. I think he is really likable and plays the mister run away, key to everything, get the way to hot girl, guy really well. It was also entertaining...if you could get past a lot of ham fisted attempts at humor, racists caricatures, unlikable supporting players, completely predictable summer movie brain melting explode-a-thons, and complete lack of real human drama. If you really liked the toys, the tv show or the first Transformers, you MIGHT like this one...or hate it. It's hard to say. The effects are OK. Pretty much everyone but the mains are terrible. Sams new room mate is almost unbearably annoying and in the back of your head you want him to be stomped to death by a Decepticon. There is also a lot more of Sam's parents in fallen and for some reason they have turned in to disgusting horny pot heads. You lose all attachment to them and then when they come back for the emotional climax and it fizzles. Also there are far too many transformers for you to really care which ones live or die. In the first one you really felt for the robots, which was one of the reasons I liked it. This movie proves that movies only need have a few thousand expolsions and a hot girl to make a billion dollars in the movie industry today. Such low expections. Sad Times.
So I'll use a scale of nerdboners for this one and Transformers 2: Revenge to the Fallen gets a 2 out of 5 (and the two are more chubbies than full blown Stallones)
