Yes, and I’m one of those that fought to watch it at the first day!

This is one of those movies that actually make you OBLIGATED to watch it. Yes, the first movies was stupendous, and fantastic in every angle, but this one, it says “fuck you, watch me” right in your face. And probably most likely, especially if you’ve known me for more than a year already in real life, I ruin people’s movie experiences. So stop now if you don’t want to read my major spoilers. But before I get to that, just a brief journey to get them sacred tickets:

My day started– oh wait, let’s fast forward.

Actually we’ve already planned to watch the movie 2 days prior to the screening, so we can fight-off potential enemies, ticket-wise and seat-wise. At the day of the screening, unfortunately was bummed by a sudden tropical typhoon on it’s way to the Philippines. I was already getting set to get to the mall, when such violent winds and rain befell our area. It was really hard to get out side in one piece. Some of my buddies, who were apparently also bothered by the sudden downdrift of the weather, asked if we’d cancel watching the movie. But it’s Transformers 2 that’s why I can’t quit now! I just said I was already on my way to the meeting place, so they just thought “fuck it; alright we’ll watch”.

We were planning to watch the 3:00pm screening, but all 5 cinemas were already full, and if there were still seats to get to, they’re pretty far apart. 8 of us attended. So to accomodate our whim of seating right in the middle row, we just settled with the 5:45pm screening, which was apparently not part of our plan. We got the tickets by around 3pm, so we had enough time to roam around the mall, and slack and eat.

At 5:45pm we got to our seats.

Now off to my Transformers 2 SPOILERS. Those who don’t want this can back out now.

1. Yes, as seen in the movie preview, Megatron lives again. The decepticons from outside earth found out that there were still shards of the cube left. One’s with Sam, and the other is under protection of the American government and military. They got the one handled by the military, and used it to resurrect Megatron.

2. There are new autobots added: 3 robo-chicks that turn to bikes and one that turns into some luxurious sports car (I called it Exia because it had that sorta GN blade thing). Of course there’s still Prime, Bumblebee, and Ironhide.

3. In the middle of the movie, Optimus dies when he was apparently gang-banged my a bunch of decepticons. And this is actually my favorite fight scene in the movie. Optimus Prime, on his own with no backup, against Megatron and a bunch of heavy decepticons. He managed to have killed the other guys, cut off StarScream’s arm, and beat the hell out of Megatron. But Megatron being the stealthy pussy that he is, back stabbed Prime, which apparently killed the guy.

4. Sam starts seeing weird symbols after having contact with the shard of the cube left with him, which are actually coordinates of an ancient device left by the transformers on earth thousands of years ago.

5. Megan Fox (I still can’t remember her name there, I just call her Megan Fox. What are you gonna do?) is still hawt. That’s it.

6. There’s this thingy called the Matrix which is the key to use that device that I mentioned earlier. Sam plans to use it to revive Prime.

7. Thousands of years ago, transformers came to earth, and built a machine that while destroy the sun and convert it into Energon (which is a necessary for keeping them last for like forever. Without it, they age and rust. The transformers that came to earth that time didn’t care if they’re going to waste the humans, but the Primes did (these are the ancestors of the Optimus Prime that we know). They rebelled and kept the Matrix hidden, using their own bodies.

8. There were new decepticons introduced, like the constructicons that combine to make a hell of a monster robot, that decepticon that hacked to an American satelite to track Sam, and that over-powered decepticon that is more powerful than Megatron named Fallen (he teleport hacks, actually). There also Jetstream, a former decepticon that joined the autobots, who helped them get to the location of the Matrix.

9. Fast forwarding to the end-ish part, Sam get’s the Matrix, and revives Prime. The decepticons sent an army to earth to finish of the autobots. Fallen got a hold of the Matrix, and started the machine thingy. Jetstream, who’s already exhausted after the battle, gave his core to super-upgrade Optimus, and then Optimus combined with the remaining autobots (which was really awesome). He looked like the Raiser gundam in Gundam 00.

10. Prime pawns Fallen. StarScream is a pussy and back out, so did Megatron (so maybe we can assume there would be a third movie). Everyone was happy.

I kept the spoilers at the minimum so don’t you worry. I was originally planning to story-tell the whole movie in grand detail but I’m lazy so deal with it.

Finality:

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, is a grand movie, I must say. It kinda gives me the satisfaction of being able to watch it at the first day of screening here in the Philippines. Like I said earlier, it’s a “Must Watch” movie, so get out of your house, rush to the nearest theater, and grab a ticket. You will be sorry if you don’t watch it in wide screen, seriously.

Kudos to Michael Bay for keeping that “Transformers feel” to it. The effects were really keeping me in awe, and it still looks like they’re actually there, the robots. The cast were kinda recycled, but that’s fine. There’s comedy too, and fanservice, which is really awesome.

So to sum it up, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen gets 10.5 out of 10 for me. It’s a fantastic fuckin’ movie and I earnestly think that everybody whould watch it.

I think this is my first time for a movie-spoilers review, so you should be grateful. Feel free to comment if I seem wrong on some stuff.