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Since the characters, human and otherwise, are seldom engaging, the film only works when things go boom. If plot isn't important in films of this type - as its most ardent defenders will inevitably claim - then why did director Michael Bay and screenwriters Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman spend two and a half hours telling it? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is more epic, bombastic and overwhelming than the 2007 original, but it's also charmless, dumber and cruder by comparison. Its sequel has the opposite problem: The battle scenes are comprehensible, but the story isn't. One of the biggest complaints about the simply told first Transformers was that many of the battle scenes were damn near incomprehensible.

Click to watch our video review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In the ensuing conflict, one will fall, the human bodycount will number in the thousands, and the action heads to the pyramids of Egypt where both the heroes and villains seek an ancient secret from the Transformers' distant past on Earth. Obviously, the good guys don't want this to happen. The Fallen wants to destroy Earth's sun and feed off its energy. The Decepticons resurrect Megatron (once again voiced by Hugo Weaving), the top disciple of The Fallen (voiced by Candyman's Tony Todd), one of the original Primes and sort of the Lucifer of giant f***ing robots. After declining to help Optimus plead his case to the government about why the Autobots should stay, Sam finds himself hunted by a vicious new batch of Decepticons and on the run with Mikaela, Leo and former Sector 7 Agent Simmons ( John Turturro) along as his only allies. No sooner has Sam arrived at school - where he meets his pushy roommate Leo ( Ramon Rodriguez), a sultry co-ed named Alice ( Isabel Lucas), and an obnoxious professor ( Rainn Wilson) - than he starts having visions of what he learns are symbols from an ancient robot language.

Sam and his girlfriend Mikaela ( Megan Fox), who have yet to say they love each other, vow to continue their relationship long-distance. Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky ( Shia LaBeouf) is heading off to college.

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