Your reaction to Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen will depend on where you are coming from and what’s important to you.
I have talked to two teens: one (a girl) who thought it was a “classic”, and one (a guy) who thought it was overwrought and, at some points, offensive.
What Transformers 2 has is lots of CGI action, Megan Fox, and special effects a-plenty.
What it lacks is a strong storyline, character development, and believability.
For most, the former will prevail over the latter, as ticket sales attest. For the discriminating movie goer, however, Transformers offers little. While mythic in its proportions, the story simply defies belief. Yes, it’s fun, but frankly it was more fun to see our U.S. Armed Forces weapons in action, laying down some smack on the interstellar junk heaps.
My biggest complaint is the irrelevant sex scenes that producers and directors know will be seen by the young audience to which Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is geared. The lack of creativity and goodwill is pathetic.
Of course, many kids will bypass such considerations and go to the film – at least some without a whit of concern from their parents. Such is life. Perhaps we are all becoming numbed by the endless sexual imagery.
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is rated PG-13 and plays at the Regal Eagle Ridge and the Carmike.
SEBRING CINEMA AND SPORTS rating, based on a scale of 0 to 5, 5 being a classic:
