Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: Michael Bay
	Actors: Shia LaBeouf (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body), Josh Duhamel, John Turturro (O'Brother Where Art Thou?)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 13.09.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After discovering that his car transforms into a giant robot and saving the world, Sam (LaBoeuf) tries to have a normal life when entering college. But he finds a piece of an enemy weapon and they will try to retrieve it.
Review: After a long-awaited but slightly disappointing Transformers movie, and before the increasing lack of ideas in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon and Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, this second movie in the franchise might well be the best. It contains plenty of Transformers action with improved special effects, in particular the opening destruction sequence in Shanghai, and perpetuates the mix of action and "dumb" humour dear to Michael Bay (see also Bad Boys 2). I write "dumb" because obviously one cannot consider fart/ass/dick jokes as true comedy, and there are at least twenty throughout the movie. But it does contain some stupid quotes that made me laugh out loud: Frat guy: Is that your car in our bushes? Sam Witwicky: No... uh, this is a friend of mine's, he just... went to go get you a tighter shirt... Frat guy: There isn't a tighter shirt! We checked! Frat guy: How about I park my foot up your ass? Sam Witwicky: What size shoe do you wear? Or also: Agent Simmons: What you are about to see is top secret. Do NOT tell my mother! Shia LaBeouf seems to have found the perfect role for his way of acting (at least until the 4th movie in which he is not), Megan Fox seems to have plastified since the first movie, John Turturro is very funny if you like his style, and the rest of the cast is just OK. In this second movie we start to see massive scenes of destruction with no consequence and no visible deaths in order not to shock the most sensitive viewers, which always annoys me. As a fan of robot action I couldn't miss this movie (and the whole franchise), but it definitely could have been done better.
Rating: 6 /10