Author: Gwhite83

The sequel. As a rule it has to have twice as much of everything. In “Friday the 13th Part 2” Jason took over from his mother, and hacked up way more camp councilors. In “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” Leather Face laid waste to more than just one van of hippies. Compared to the original Michael Bay’s loud, grating, mind numbing metal mayhem that is “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” follows that rule to a “T.” It has twice as many Transformers, twice as many explosions, twice as many shots of Megan Fox’s cleavage running, twice as many up-angle shots of Shia LaBoeuf screaming in slow motion, and most of all, with a screeching shout it is twice as terrible.

The plot here is a rehash of the first one where Sam (LaBeouf) and Mikaela (Fox) search for a mythical Macguffin, this time the Matrix instead of the All Spark, before Megatron and the Decepticons can start a star destroying machine that will wipe out the human race. Also like the first installment there are so many themes thrown in it becomes a paella of weird, and often Hawkish, American jingoism and moralizing. From what I could glean the US can’t pull out of Iraq because giant Robots want to steal all of the oil.