Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the much anticipated sequel to the blockbuster smash Transformers by Michael Bay. Bay is back with all the of the Autobots and Decepticons fighting for the survival of the human race. The preview shows Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela (Megan Fox) still together. The Autobot Bumblebee is still there protecting them and from the previews, it looks like they need it. It looks like Sam and Mikaela are trying to lead a "normal" life, though how normal can it really be when you have a car who is also your alien Autobot protector? Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen*) is seen telling Sam that he needs his help, but Sam doesn't want to be involved in the next galactic battle between the alien robots. Sam pleads his case that it's not his war, but Optimus warns him that it soon will be. The rest of the movie is intense action sequences of epic proportions between Sam, Mikaela, the Autobots and the Decepticons.
It's a little hard to get from the preview exactly what the plot of the story is, except the ongoing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The first movie had a couple slow spots in it, but that's to be expected in the first of any movie of this kind. Spider-man, Superman, Iron Man. Movies like that take time to introduce you to who the characters are. I thought they did an amazing job taking the 80's cartoon and bringing it to a live-action movie. I was concerned because I am still skeptical about CGI. It nearly ruined the first two episodes of Star Wars for me. I missed the old days of actually building the ships from plastic models, having characters in costume, and leaving the special effects for the computers. But now everything is generated on a computer and really, to create Optimus Prime and the rest of the alien robots, you can only do it through CGI and it was done brilliantly. I am excited for the second installment of Transformers. All the same characters are back which is usually a good sign of a sequel. And Michael Bay is back to direct it. So I'm excited, even though typically sequels aren't as good as the first ones. But will it live up to the success of the first one? Will the trailer deliver on the hype it builds up for itself? I think so. I hope so. But . . . we shall see . . .
* on a side note, I just think it's great that Peter Cullen is doing the voice of Optimus Prime. For those of you who don't know, he was the original voice of Optimus for the cartoon series in the 80's. But that's not all he did and I was a bit surprised to see some of his credits, so I thought I'd list them for you to see if you'd get as big a kick out of it as I did: he did voices for the Smurfs TV Series; he was the voice of KARR, KITT's evil twin on Knight Rider; in the 1984 movie Gremlins, he was the voice of the Magwai and the Gremlins; he did voices on The Jetsons, the Go Bots, Voltron, and G.I. Joe; and he was the voice of Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.
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