Transformers 2; Revenge of The Fallen

This movie is a teenage boy’s fantasy; fantastic fight scenes, sleek cars, and hot babes getting dirty (ok...just oil and sand- blockbusters have to be PG-13 in order to sell trillions of tickets!). Sam Witwicky, the lucky, if not lovable, loser, is back, and so it seems are the Decepticons as they continue to seek the shard of The Allspark that just happened to get caught on Sam’s favorite sweatshirt. (I guess, they don’t make washing machines like they used to...) The Decepticons race to recover this shard, and therein we discover that the title is actually a clever pun- sorry, I meant “a pun”- on the word “Fallen”- as those who will take revenge on us earthlings will not only be the previously felled Megatron, but his overlord boss “The Fallen”, who looks like a cross between the bad guys in Aliens and The Matrix (both of which managed to spawn much better sequels than Transformers btw). The Allspark cube of course, was nothing but a clue to a bigger mystery, and so the race continues, with plenty of excellent special effects and some of the most appallingly, embarrassingly misogynistic and racist scenes in recent movie memory, (featuring Sam’s weeping, wailing mess of a mother, a robot humping Megan Fox’s leg, and a ridiculous scene in which Megan Fox lands with her face in someone’s crotch), as well as the awkward and not-even-remotely funny exchanges between the jive-talking Skids and Mudflap. Aside from that there is plenty of awesome action, teenage boy humor (such as focusing on the large balls on one of the Decepticons), and lots of danger before the good guys win. But oh no! A few of those mean old Deceptikons managed to sneak away- meaning that we are facing yet another helping of Transformers. As they say, Revenge is a dish best served cold.