#6 TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Not that I didn’t love the first Transformers movie but I have to say the second one…WOW…it was top notch in my book. The story continues in the sequel to Transformers with some new and some old faces, more comedy and more danger. In Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, coming in our sixth place with $402111870, Sam Witwicky is off to college and Mikaela Banes is home doing her own thing. They are seeing if their relationship can stand the trial of space when Sam has a mental melt down in a lecture after touching a piece of the cube. In turn giving back as we all know the transformers are so great at doing the cube makes Sam a fountain of knowledge to the history of the transformers. Hmm not something that the decepticons can let pass especially since they want what is in his head. So once again Sam is thrown into the war between good and evil, decepticon verse autobot.

Not only are there the our two favorite characters and couple returning to the action but the hunky Major William Lennox is running a new task force that’s main concern is taking care of the unruly transformers that have decided to terrorize earth with their presence. Lennox is in the midst of trying to keep the aliens invading a secret from the public population when he and Sam are both, in a way, called to action to try and solve the decepticon problem with a more focus and a plan. They are going to try and beat the decepticons to the key that will probably completely destroy earth.

Wow talk about complicated circumstances. Sam and Mikaela are just trying to go on with life like everything is normal, trying to live with the fact that the autobots, who are their friends, are here to stay but that with them come the decepticons. Sam is trying to keep Mikaela out of the line of fire but she refuses to let him go at this alone, unfortunately his family also happen to get involved so Sam has to worry about all of their safety while trying to save the world. That’s a lot of pressure for one guy to have to deal with when he doesn’t really understand the information that he has been given in the first place.

For those action junky movie goers this is the cream of the crop. In fact that is really the core to this movie the battle that is ever going on between the good and evil transformers, decepticon verse autobot. The autobots have aligned themselves with the humans in order to try and save earth from destruction, so that what happened to their home planet doesn’t happen here. They also have a little secondary bit of incentive with the hope of finding the all spark the key power source to saving the transformers or at least to keep them going. “The Fallen” want revenge on earth for preventing the power harvesting of their sun to power the all spark and they have chosen know to take it by activating the harvester on earth. Yea bad news for the people of earth, I say death by freezing not so pretty.

So fighting, slashing, battling…etc. All great fun but I would say that the underlying story is what is really important and makes the movie such a great success. Of course for those that love a good love story there is Sam and Mikaela, the slacker nobody that gets the hot popular girl. Surprisingly they work together and they are like a normal couple. Like real life they are struggling, they go off in their own direction start to live their lives and struggle with the long distance relationship. They love each other yet they hate each other, he wants to protect her, she doesn’t want to go without him. Its cute and me personally, I want them to stay together and beat this and survive to go on and live life. Even though they come from different worlds in more then one way they seem to be meant to be together which gives a little extra to the storyline.

The relationship between the humans involved and the autobots is the one that I dub the most important, no matter how much destruction they go through they go at it and try to make things right. Optimus Prime is the leader of the autobots and he works strategically with the military to help them try to get the upper hand on the decepticons and to try and give them technological advantages so that they can fight against them. Then there is Bumblebee that is like Sam’s own personal protector. He has stayed with Sam since they first met up in the first movie and there is very little that can be done to separate Bumblebee from Sam’s side. When trouble starts to arise Bumblebee goes to school to find Sam and warn him that there is trouble arising. They truly feel sorry that the humans have to suffer and host all these mechanical monsters that are trying to destroy them. For alien machines they seem to have quite an emotional connection to the people and doing what it right. This really gives substance to the plot line and the overall effect of the movie.

IMDB gives this movie a 6/10 I however think that they deserve a lot more credit and would say that this movie is at least an 8/10. It was a little violent for younger kids and you did really have to like action and adventure in order to get into it, but it was well done and an enjoyable watch.