The above title is what one could say about Michael Bay's latest film, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. In his attempts to aplease the fans, by adding in more robots, more screen time for the robots, and unforntualty, more explosions, Bay has made a mess of a film. I know the film has been out for a while, but damn it, I have something to say.

I watched the first film prior to seeing the second at Imax opening day, and comparing the two, the 1st has a clear message, it knows what it wants to say. Viewing the 2nd film a few times now, I can't get my head around the plot, and how, well, dumb it all is. Now, it makes sense, and from a writing perspective, there are elements in which the story is driven forward through certain scenes. But there is just too much useless crap! And well, and here where the fanboy in me comes out, why the hell remove Optimus from a good 3/4 of the movie Bay?! I mean what the hell? Did you WANT to make little kids cry all over again? Like they did in the 80's/90's????

Okay, I can deal with killing Optimus. I can't see why it was nesscary to the plot, but whatever. But the one thing we, as fans, asked for, was Soundwave. Why did he only receive like, barely 5 minutes of screen time? Huh? It's like, the only thing we wanted most! Instead, we get the two autobot twins and a cranky old Jetfire wannabe hogging the screen for most the movie. And Devestator, there isn't enough sighing and shaking of the heads to do justice to what Bay did to him.

I know al my rantings are dumb, and is pretty much rooted in fanboyism. But who cares. I'm a part of the fan base, and if they weren't no fanbase, there wouldn't be a movie, and Bay wouldn't get a pay check. He's not a bad guy, I'd beat. He makes lousy films, but really he's given us some damn fine Transformers action on screen, so he'll do. He just has to scale back. Things don't need to be given some grand plot about The Fallen. Who he is? Some loser from the Transformers lore. If you want to envoke pure epic-ness, bring on Unicron. Nothing says epic like something that get EAT an entire planet.