SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Unlike the first movie, in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, director Michael Bay brings to back to 17,000 BC to relate us to a tale of Transformers first encounter with mankind. The movie proceeds with the present where the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime team up with the US military to combat the Decepticons hiding out on Earth.

Although the Decepticons leader, Megatron is dead and his corpse is lying underneath an ocean secured by the US Navy, through smooth coordination from hacking into the satellite to retrieving the remaining AllSpark pieces, the Decepticons manage to relieve Megatron and yet, another plot to destroy Earth is conceived. In fact, Megatron’s master, The Fallen wants to destroy both the Earth and the Sun. Incredibly ambitious.

Megan Fox in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

Back to the humans, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) has a considerably major role in the second Transformers film, yet his sexy and sultry girlfriend, Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) appears once awhile with him flashing her lovely assets even more frequently than the first film. Although the movie has better plots and storyline this time around, at times, Michael Bay seems to be wanting to outdo every major blockbusters which were shown in the past couple of years. This would more or less include the Indiana Jones with pursuit of rare artifacts in Egypt, Da Vinci Code with the mystery-solving puzzle, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian with the mention of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Jumper with the teleportation through “space bridge” to Egypt, and many more.

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf running for their lives in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

Of course, the movie also introduces a bunch of new robots, including the twins Skids and Mudflap, the Constructicons which eventually combine to form Devastator, Soundwave and many more. The movie even introduces a Pretender robot, which camouflage as a human to seduce Sam.

Bumblebee in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

Overall, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen does not really disappoint at all with plenty of actions and some funny jokes with the inclusion of funny sidekicks such as John Turturro and Ramón Rodríguez. However, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen does not really satisfy as well, because at the end of the film, the feeling of awe was there, but not the satisfaction.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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Contrary to what most people said about Michael Bay’s movies, Transformers (2007) is probably directed by the most suitable person as Michael Bay managed to prove all the critics wrong by creating such an awesome masterpiece. Although the new Transformers movie has the robots changed its shapes and transformations from the original, they are nevertheless awesome and most suitable for a movie for this generation compared to the 1986 movie. In the making of Transformers, Michael Bay admitted there were more than 10,000 parts just for Optimus Prime – and I believe he means the parts in CGI form.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie started with the AllSpark cube floating aimlessly in the space after a humongous war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The cube somewhat landed on no other than Earth. Although Megatron managed to get to Earth before any other Transformers, but he was frozen and dormant. The puzzling thing is, what actually made Megatron frozen? It could be the temperature in the Arctic Circle, but somewhat Megatron managed to kill Sam Witwicky’s grandpa, Captain Witwicky before he got frozen. While Captain Witwicky managed to find the location of the AllSpark cube, he got killed and the rest of the crews somehow transported the gigantic cube back to the States using whatever means they have (they didn’t show this part). Despite the puzzling parts, the movie continues with Blackout (Decepticon) landed in US military base in Qatar and a huge fight scene pursues. Or its more like a one-way war with Blackout destroying almost everything in the base and left only a few survivors.

As the people in the Pentagon found out that Blackout (or an unidentified being at that moment) was attempting to hack into Pentagon to dig some information and all they have got was a signal, they setup many different groups of highly intellectual people (geeks) to investigate and identify the signal. Maggie Madsen (Rachael Taylor) and her team managed to find out that the signal belongs to a living robot with DNA cells but Defense Secretary John Keller (Jon Voight) did not believe in a thing she said unless she has the evidence. As a last resort, she then copied the highly classified data using a 2GB SD card and went to her friend/adviser, Glen Whitmann’s (Anthony Anderson) house to uncover the data. Somewhat the defense department managed to trace them in somewhat a very short time and FBI caught Maggie and Glen.

Then the movie takes us to the classroom where Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) has to present something in his history class. He talked about his grandpa, Captain Witwicky’s great exploration and discovery but ensues to auction off the items (including the glasses) in the classroom with a mouth of words to his eBay auction. His teacher initially gave him a “B-” but he managed to convince him to change it to “A-” which means he gets to get his dad to pay half of his first car, which led us to Bumblebee, initially a 1974 Chevrolet Camaro (later on transforms into a 2008 Chevrolet Camaro). After getting his car, Sam was of course, in pursue of girls, which led us to Mikaela (Megan Fox).

That’s all the story I will reveal as I am quite a bit worried that the FBI will track me down as the US-release is only July 3. LoL!

The movie has a lot of elements which include the Internet age, i.e. eBay, illegal music downloads, etc. which was quite humorous in a way. Somewhat, this movie is highly commercialized with GM’s Chevrolet, Nokia, eBay, etc. If you haven’t watched the Burger King’s ad, watch it here.

Overall, the movie is just freaking awesome. Definitely, “more than meets the eye!” I will watch it in the cinema the second time, the third time and will get the DVD version and watch it on iMax. Anyone wants to watch it with me? I promise I won’t tell. LoL!