Pink Elle Reviews…

I grew up watching Transformers and singing the Transformers song. Secretly, I thought Optimus Prime was rather lumbering and clumsy while Megatron was super-cool! And I think I still do!

I caught The Transformers Movie when it first launched last year and came away a little disappointed in how they potrayed my favourite robots. Giving Michael Bay a second chance, I recently caught Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Was it good? Read on for my review below.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Observations

• This time, the bad Decepticons are so much badder and the Autobots have strangely reduced in number to less than 10, most of which are small cars instead of the huge mean machines the Decepticons had! Talk about being outnumbered!
• Again, the Autobots don’t transform as well as the Decepticons do. Megatron transforms mid-air while Optimus took forever to transform!
• I really liked the tongue in cheek humour they had. When they were in a meat freezer, Sam’s useless sidekick Leo Spitz said “Ugh, pigs…swine flu, not good!” That was hilarious!
• I think Megan Fox was just there for eye candy for the guys! The robotics and metal would probably have been enough to attract guys though! 

• I found it funny how they said Obama has now been safely put in a bunker when the war between Autobots and Decepticons started.
• The fight scene got really messy after a while and I lost track of who was fighting who. But for once, the humans actually had a big role to play in helping the Autobots against the Decepticons.

• At some points, I felt like I was watching a Westernized version of Godzilla tramping through a cardboard Tokyo city!
• I like the human side of Bumble Bee!
• The Fallen looked huge and seemed to be in pieces all over. It was hard to imagine what he actually looked like.

Synopsis Of Transformers 2

Megatron was happily buried deep in the sea after Transformers 1 and the Autobots have formed some alliance with some special secret force to fight the small outbursts of Decepticons around the world, wrecking havoc in their search for the Energon and Sun Harvester. If you thought Megatron was bad, the robot behind this new evil is The Fallen, a fallen member of the original Primes who covets the Sun Harvester to gain the sun’s full power for his Allspark (The Transformer’s life force) which will mean an end for Earth.

It comes back down to a college-going Sam Witwicky to once again save the world, despite his reluctance to do so initially. It takes Optimus Prime’s death (oops spoiler!) and Jetfire, an ancient Decepticon turned good, to make him realise that he is the only hero who can save Earth from falling into the hands of The Fallen. So the race begins to find the Matrix, the key to The Sun Harvester, across cities and the deserts of Egypt. Will Optimus survive to fight Megatron another day? Watch it to find out!

Autobots, transform and roll out!