Transformers – Rise of the Fallen
by Timothy Singleton on Jul.02, 2009, under News and current events
Well, let’s see, what can we say? My elders always used to say, “If you cannot say something nice, then do not say anything at all.” Sage advice, taken from the wisdom of years.
Then again, I did not listen to them then, either.
Tranformers promised to be a good movie from the previews. I mean, hey, is there anything much more hot for a fellow than Megan Fox in cutoff shorts sliding around on a bike? No.
Then there is that PG-13 rating.
The move plot was BAD. Stealing scenes from Species (the chick holding Shia Labeouf down in his dorm bed), Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles (robots disguised as humans in order to kill important humans), and Star Wars (pick any episode you like, the creature critter hiding out in the rings of Saturn is nothing but a take off of the Sith and slapped with a thick code of malleable silicon); even the CGI was blurry (which may have been the theater, to be fair), Transformers – Rise of the Fallen fails to rise to anything like its predecessor.
What got me up and walking was the language. The stereotypes that tried way to hard to be clever, and the just plain BAD storyline were honestly stupid up to the point of my walking, but it was the language that had me moving to refund territory. Geez, I sound like the very reviewers I hate, don’t I? Well, this movie was just BAD and it was not the actors’ and actresses’ faults. The direction was BAD and so was the script.
To sum up, the language was bad enough for a PG-13 audience that I got up and walked out when the P word was used and I was sitting in a theater full of kids ranging from ages 4 and up. Sorry, and all due respect to my good friend who said to, “Yeah, but you are not 13,” I could not sit there and act as though this was appropriate. Profanity has become so instrinsic to everyday life that it was this use of the P word in this setting to make me aware of just how numb I have become to falling standards. Megan Fox, who was born PERFECT in every way, has decided her lips needed to be injected with collagen apparently. Still beautiful, her mouth appeared somewhat disfigured in this film. Why would she do that? More Hollywood insanity is all I can answer.
Pass on Transformers – Rise of the Fallen if you have not already wasted your money.
-Tim
