[Movie] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Saw this earlier tonight. It was pretty good, but also somewhat disappointing. They left so much unexplained. Seemed like the autobots got axed in development. One thing that annoyed me was that the obnoxious autobots (Skids and Mudflap, who's faces remind me of Gremlins) got the most screen time of the lot. Bots like Sideswipe, Jolt, Arcee (is she a 3 in 1 deal?) were given no intros and had little to no lines (unfortunate, because Sideswipe was really cool). The returning bots had very little to say as well.

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Seemed like Optimus was one of the more developed character's, even though he was out of it for about half of the movie (he was kicking ass in the forest till he let his guard down).

Also, what's the deal? They never really showed the fate of the robots from the battle, eg. 2 of the 3 arcee bikes looked to be mortally wounded, the annoying twins pretty much disappeared after their fight with the huge constructacon. The RC monster truck one seemed to completely disappear once they reached Egypt.

Looked like the US was army was kicking more ass than the autobots did in that final battle.

Nice to see Scorpinok make a return, but where was Barricade (the Saleen, cop car)? He didn't die in the first, unless the autobots and NEST took care of him during the two year gap. Also was that Blackout (the helicopter) I saw? I thought he was dead.

I guess this is what happens when a sequel is rushed. All flash, no real substance. Even though my post comes off as more negative, I'll still be trying to grab an IMAX viewing this weekend as I really did enjoy the flash, and I'm curious to see what the additional footage is.

Jam it back in, in the dark.