Introduction
I liked the first movie of the Transformers series and decided to go ahead with the second movie of the series the Rise of the Fallen.

The Plot
The movie starts from where the first movie ended. The Autobots and the elite human force together go about cleaning the remaining Decepticons from earth. On one such expidition one of the Decepticons sends a message that the Fallen is rising. Optimus Prime is very tensed after this warning.

Meanwhile Sam Witwicky is getting ready to go for college. While playing around with a shard of the All Spark, he starts suddenly seeing symbols which simply seem to make him crazy. Soon he realizes that these are cybertron language and is a clue for something. The clue comes from Jet Fire who is a Decepticon Seeker. He explains that centuries back some of the Autobots used to harvest energy from the suns of various systems, except for the ones with the life on it. The Fallen chose to ignore that and harvest even systems which had life and had actually planted the Sun Harvester somewhere on earth near Egypt.

Meanwhile, more decepticons find Megatron and revive him and together they take down Optimus Prime. Then they all go in search of the Sun Harverster. What happens next? Do the Decepticons activate the Sun Harvester? Or does Sam again save the earth from the Decepticons? Check out this action adventure for the details.

Critic's Viewpoint
After watching the first movie of the Transformers series, my expectation from the second movie was sky high. I could not have imagined a worse movie to firmly dash my expectations completely.

From the moment Sam enters the screen the movie went completely crazy with so many stupid scenes like the one in which his house gets on fire and then momma Witwicky gets stoned in his college. Julie White was so revolting in her role as momma Witwicky that I completely lost the interest in the movie after that scene. Overall the humor in the movie is also very much below the belt stuff and largely poor.

I loved Shia LaBeouf in the first installment due to his innocent fooling around. In this movie, he suddenly seems to have developed attitude and a very serious one at that, shouting at one and all and makes a complete pest of himself. Megan Fox is again used as a background decorating tool without any serious acting involved in the movie for her.

The action in the first movie was excellent. Here the action is overdone and very repetitive. There is nothing new in terms of what we did not see in the first movie on the action front. Just a bigger re-hash of that same action. To make matters worse most of the scenes are so close with so much dust flying around that it is very difficult to even make sense of who is hitting whom and who is gaining the upper hand. My wife joined midway in the movie around the time Sam and gang reach Egypt. And after about 20 odd minutes of repetitive action without any dialogs, she looked at me and remarked rather sympathetically "What kind of movies you are watching these days!!"

I am actually surprised that Steven Spielberg is even remotely associated with this offering. The movie might have made huge money at the box office, but Michael Bay has made the worst all-time money spinner of all time!!

Summary
The movie was really bad in terms of performances, screenplay and dialogs. I would give this movie a very low 1 star rating.

Related Reviews
Transformers 1: First part of this series and a much better movie than this one.

Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: DVD
Video Occasion: None of the Above
Suitability For Children: Not suitable for Children of any age