Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

"My father was a wheel! The first wheel! And do you know what he transformed into? Nothing! But he did it with honor!" -Jetfire

Micheal Bay's Transformers 2 was just as hilariously entertaining as the first. The plot is loosely that the Transformers' ancestors landed here during the caveman days with some huge machine that would gather power presumably by destroying the sun, but while all the other Transformers wanted to leave humans alone so that they could flourish and thrive, the Fallen wanted to blow up the sun out of laziness so that they wouldn't have to find another energy source. So, they incapacitated the Fallen and put the "Matrix of Leadership" under protection so that no one could operate the machine. But in present day, the Fallen has resurfaced and only Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), under extraordinarily slim reasoning, can find the matrix and SAVE THE WORLD! Of course, he has the help of his attractive girlfriend (Megan Fox), conspiracy theorist college roommate (Leo Spitz), some racially stereotypical Autobots, and his government nemesis from the last movie (John Turturro).

With plot holes left and right, an overabundance of action scenes (with plentiful explosions, of course), lots of revolving cameras, and some incredibly cheesy dialogue, this movie is worth watching only if you're willing to laugh when you should gasp. After all, what other movie would have the US military putting all of their trust into a college freshman with whom they have had little to no communication over the past two years or, without explanation, bring back the protagonists parents so that they too could in slow motion outrun explosions in the desert or have soldiers using standard military guns as their only weapons against giant transforming alien robots or have one Transformer that can look like a human while all the rest look like cars with bad paint jobs. The funniest parts of the movie come from a pair of Mexican-style Transformers who are clearly there for comic relief but if that's not enough Bay throws in Sam's roommate, who seems to appear and disappear at random, and Agent Simmons just in case you got bored for a second. And although Bay prides himself on his action scenes, it is rather difficult to know which Transformer is winning in hand-to-hand combat when you can't tell where one starts and the other ends. One of the funniest movies of the summer for all the wrong reasons. Here's to a trilogy! 1 star.