You’ll be even more hard pressed at the end of this one to remember which robot’s which - there are three or four new Gremlin-esque ones that chitter and skitter about like the first movie’s Frenzy - and few get more than a scene before Bay’s attention flits elsewhere. But it’s a case of same meal, bigger portion, with the flaws of the first not only present but accentuated. It all looks good on paper, as does the added-value 150-minute run time. There are now 42 robots, including one that looks like a jaguar, one that can turn into ball bearings to access high-security areas and one in the form of a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Dogs hump each other, robots hump human legs and the camera spends so much time ogling Megan Fox’s torso you start to wonder if it’s being operated by a 13 year-old boy.
His first and only sequel since Bad Boys 2 is, like that film, marked by swaggering confidence, wild excess and a string of bad-taste jokes. If the thought of that gag makes you laugh, chances are you’ll have a ball with Revenge Of The Fallen. Yes, Michael Bay, the man who brought us cyber-micturition in this movie’s predecessor, has one-upped himself: Decepticon testicles. As it lumbers up the dusty colossus, a shot tilts up to its mid-section, revealing two wrecking balls dangling down. A robot-on-robot fracas is unfolding around Egypt’s Giza Necropolis, with Devastator, an especially massive mechanoid comprised of several construction vehicles, set on clawing its way to the peak of a pyramid. A notable moment occurs during the dementedly frenetic final act of Transformers 2.
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