Transformers gets it's own Jar Jar
July 6th 2009 14:22
Spoiler Alert! Only read on if you’ve seen Revenge of the Fallen.
Michael Bay and his team of flare wranglers and low angle slo-mo artists return with a film I’d been looking forward to for some time. I’m so disappointed.
Revenge of the Fallen or Revenge of the Unfunny is a jumbled mass of explosions, chase scenes and slo-mos of hot looking women. It’s too long, under written, and seems to have completely forgotten what made the first film so good.
One of it’s downfalls is offering up one of the most annoying characters since Jar Jar Binks. Ramon Rodriguez plays Sam’s geek roommate and then for some reason goes with Sam on his many adventures. He has no actual part in the action; no importance at all, but pops up in every second scene to panic, scream and get tasered. I wanted to taser myself after twenty minutes.
It’s astounding that a film that moves along at breakneck speed, seems to have very little plot, yet so often I was in a scene and completely lost as to why we were there and where we were headed.
I don’t know how you can manage to have a good strong narrative in the first film, yet completely butcher the narrative in the second. It’s like two different teams made the two films.
Worst of all, THEY FORGOT TO BRING THE FUNNY.
The first film was a cracking good adventure film with a huge amount of laughs. There was maybe one moment where I found myself laughing in this second film. It’s hard to believe that the writers could misfire so far in delivering a movie with none of the wit and charm of the first film.
The other thing that I loved about the first film was that they managed to make you feel for the robots; to generate empathy for a CG character of a robot was quite clever. Not Revenge of the Unfunny. They supply too many robots to make any of them interesting, and the returning robots have barely evolved. Indeed, Bumblebee has devolved into not being able to talk at all, and carrying on like a spoilt brat.
And there are many holes in the script, like how when he was apparently killed in the first film, Glenn Morshower’s “General Morshower” gets to play a pivotal role in Revenge? Or how when Sam and Micallah are racing in Bumblebee to get to the pyramid, they get out and run the last three miles? Or when they’re running from something exploding, Josh Dahamiel, and not Shia Lebouef is holding Megan Fox’s hand? She maybe a gun mechanic, but she can’t seem to run anywhere unless she’s holding somebody’s hand.
These are petty complaints, but they wouldn’t exist if the script had have engaged me.
Revenge of the Fallen is maybe not as crappy a sequel as Terminator Salvation, but it’s fallen well short of delivering on some high expectations.
5/10
Eric Mandrake
Michael Bay and his team of flare wranglers and low angle slo-mo artists return with a film I’d been looking forward to for some time. I’m so disappointed.
Revenge of the Fallen or Revenge of the Unfunny is a jumbled mass of explosions, chase scenes and slo-mos of hot looking women. It’s too long, under written, and seems to have completely forgotten what made the first film so good.
One of it’s downfalls is offering up one of the most annoying characters since Jar Jar Binks. Ramon Rodriguez plays Sam’s geek roommate and then for some reason goes with Sam on his many adventures. He has no actual part in the action; no importance at all, but pops up in every second scene to panic, scream and get tasered. I wanted to taser myself after twenty minutes.
It’s astounding that a film that moves along at breakneck speed, seems to have very little plot, yet so often I was in a scene and completely lost as to why we were there and where we were headed.
I don’t know how you can manage to have a good strong narrative in the first film, yet completely butcher the narrative in the second. It’s like two different teams made the two films.
Worst of all, THEY FORGOT TO BRING THE FUNNY.
The first film was a cracking good adventure film with a huge amount of laughs. There was maybe one moment where I found myself laughing in this second film. It’s hard to believe that the writers could misfire so far in delivering a movie with none of the wit and charm of the first film.
The other thing that I loved about the first film was that they managed to make you feel for the robots; to generate empathy for a CG character of a robot was quite clever. Not Revenge of the Unfunny. They supply too many robots to make any of them interesting, and the returning robots have barely evolved. Indeed, Bumblebee has devolved into not being able to talk at all, and carrying on like a spoilt brat.
And there are many holes in the script, like how when he was apparently killed in the first film, Glenn Morshower’s “General Morshower” gets to play a pivotal role in Revenge? Or how when Sam and Micallah are racing in Bumblebee to get to the pyramid, they get out and run the last three miles? Or when they’re running from something exploding, Josh Dahamiel, and not Shia Lebouef is holding Megan Fox’s hand? She maybe a gun mechanic, but she can’t seem to run anywhere unless she’s holding somebody’s hand.
These are petty complaints, but they wouldn’t exist if the script had have engaged me.
Revenge of the Fallen is maybe not as crappy a sequel as Terminator Salvation, but it’s fallen well short of delivering on some high expectations.
5/10
Eric Mandrake
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