Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the first of two planned sequels to Transformers. It was released in theaters June 19th, 2009, June 24th in North America. The film is produced By Steven Spielberg and directed By Michael Bay


 * Japanese title: Transformers: Revenge
 * French title: Transformers: La Revanche ("Transformers: The Revenge")
 * German title: Transformers: Die Rache ("Transformers: The Revenge")
 * Italian title: Transformers: La Vendetta del Caduto ("Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen")
 * Polish title: Transformers: Zemsta Upadłych ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen")
 * Brazilian title: Transformers: A Vingança dos Derrotados ("Transformers: Revenge of the Defeated")
 * Russian title: Transformery: Mest' Padshikh (Трансформеры: Месть падших, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones")
 * Serbian title: Transformersi: Osveta Poraženog ("Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen")
 * Spanish title: Transformers: La Venganza de los Caídos ("Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallens")
 * Finnish title: Transformers: Kaatuneiden kosto ("Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen")
 * Swedish title Transformers: De Besegrades Hämnd ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones")
 * Portuguese title Transformers: Retaliação ("Transformers: Retaliation")
 * Indian Title Transformers: Intakam Ke Kagar Par ("Transformers: On The Verge Of Revenge")
 * Korean title Transformers: Paeja eui Eok Seoub ("Transformers: Counterattack of Decepticon"")

Synopsis


Thousands of years before and the other Transformers arrived on Earth, a race of ancient Transformers scoured the universe looking for Energon sources. Known as the Seven Primes, they used a device called the "Solar Harvester" to drain stars, such as the Sun, of their energy in order to convert it to Energon and power Cybertron’s AllSpark and their life-blood. The Primes agreed that they would never drain any life-bearing worlds, but one brother, thereafter dubbed "The Fallen", constructed a Solar Harvester on Earth in 17,000 BCE. The remaining brothers sacrificed their bodies in order to hide the Matrix of Leadership, the key that powers the Solar Harvester, from The Fallen, who swore his revenge once the Matrix was his.

In the present day, Optimus now leads NEST, a military organization consisting of human troops and his own team of Autobots - including newcomers Jolt,, Sideswipe, and the twins and Mudflap. While on a mission in Shanghai, they encounter the Decepticons and. Sideways is swiftly dealt with by Sideswipe, and Demolisher is brought down by Prime and Ironhide. As he lays dying, Demolisher promises "The Fallen will rise again". Prime responds by executing the Decepticon with a single shot to the face.

Back in the United States, Sam Witwicky finds a splinter of the destroyed AllSpark, and upon contact the splinter fills his mind with Cybertronian symbols. It is eventually found out that the symbols lead to the location of the Matrix of Leadership. Sam gives the AllSpark splinter to his girlfriend Mikaela Banes for safekeeping, and leaves her and behind to go off to college. Upon arrival, Sam meets his college roommate Leo Spitz, who runs an extraterrestrial conspiracy website, and Alice a co-ed who makes sexual advances towards him. Back home at the Shoppe, DecepticonWheelie tries to steal the shard. Mikaela ensnares Wheelie with a shoppe device and forces him to talk. She interrogates him with a welding torch, and immediately leaves to get to Sam, as he has had a mental breakdown, writing uncontrollably in Cybertronian.

Decepticon hacks into a US satellite to get information on the NEST forces, learning the locations of the dead Decepticon leader  and another existing piece of the AllSpark. The Decepticons retrieve the shard and use it to resurrect Megatron. Megatron flies into space and reunites with and his master, The Fallen. The Fallen instructs Megatron and Starscream to capture Sam in order to discover the location of the Matrix of Leadership as well as to destroy Optimus, the only possible hindrance to his plans.



Mikaela arrives in town just as Alice, who is revealed as a Pretender, attacks Sam. Mikaela, Sam, and his roommate Leo destroy Alice, but are captured by. The Decepticon Scalpel (known as "The Doctor") prepares to remove Sam's brain, but Optimus crashes through the ceiling while Bumblebee bursts through the wall. A short fire fight ensues as Bumblebee fends off Starscream, allowing the humans to escape, while Optimus lands, pulling out his second gun, preparing to take on Megatron. Optimus takes on both Starscream and Megatron in a barrage of shots and as Starscream is sent reeling from a few close shots, Optimus fires a single round, which sends Megatron through a wall. Optimus collects Sam while Megatron flees and they head towards a forest as Bumblebee evacuates the rest of the humans. Megatron quickly catches up, engaging Optimus in close-quarters combat. Grindor and Starscream arrive, and a brutal fight ensues. Optimus proves his incredible battle prowess by fighting Megatron himself to a standstill, defeating Starscream and eventaully killing Grindor by ripping his head apart. Unfortunately, while distracted with Sam's wellbeing, Optimus is killed by Megatron, who viciously stabs him while his back is turned.



After Optimus Prime's death, Megatron orders a full-scale assault on the planet. The Fallen speaks to the world by transmitting a television transmission from a satellite hacked by Soundwave and demands that they surrender Sam to the Decepticons or the attack will continue. Sam, Mikaela, Leo, Bumblebee, the Twins and Wheelie regroup, with Leo believing that his online rival "RoboWarrior" may be of assistance. "RoboWarrior" is revealed former Sector Seven agent Seymour Simmons, who informs the group that the Transformers have visited Earth before, as their language is written on ruins all over the world. Wheelie identifies the language as that of the Primes, and directs the group to a former Decepticon named, who can translate the language. They find and reactivate Jetfire at the Smithsonian. After Jetfire goes on a rampage through the aircraft museum, Sam tells him about the symbols he keeps seeing in his head. Jetfire understands them and teleports the group to Egypt where Sam's hand is injured during the ejection. Jetfire explains the history of The Fallen and that the tomb of the Primes is located in the surrounding desert, and only a Prime can kill The Fallen. Jetfire provides them with a vital ancient clue: "When the dawn a-lights the Dagger’s Tip, three kings will reveal the doorway.” The group locate the Pyramids of Jordan, referred to as the Dagger's Tip, and spend the night until dawn. When the sun rises, Sam recognizes three outstanding stars near the horizon, having gone through the entire astronomy textbook earlier, as being called the Three Kings. They follow the stars and locate the tomb of the Primes, where a brawl between Skids and Mudflap breaks a wall and reveals the entrance to the tomb. The Matrix is located inside, but crumbles to dust in Sam's hands.

Believing that the Matrix can still revive Optimus, Sam collects the dust in his sock and instructs Simmons to telephone Major William Lennox to bring the other Autobots and Optimus' body to their location. The military arrives with the Autobots, but so do the Decepticons, and a battle arises. During the fight, the mighty Decepticon is formed and unearths the Solar Harvester, concealed within one of Egypt's pyramids, before being destroyed by the US military's prototype rail gun, guided by Simmons. Jetfire arrives in time to save the group from Mixmaster by slicing him in half and smashing his head off, but is mortally wounded by a surprise attack from whom he kills. The Air Force carpet-bombs the Decepticons, but Megatron breaks through the offensive and attacks Sam, and kills him. In a vision, Sam meets with the other Primes, who have been watching him for a long, long time. The Primes tell him that the Matrix of Leadership cannot be not found, but must be earned. He awakens and the dust reassembles to form the Matrix, which Sam uses to revive Optimus, by merging the Matrix with his spark.

However, The Fallen jumps into the fray and steals the Matrix shortly thereafter, rendering Optimus unable to fight once again. The Fallen activates the Solar Harvester. In a final effort, Jetfire sacrifices his parts and spark to Optimus, giving Optimus the power he needs to defeat The Fallen. With his new, enhanced capabilities, Optimus destroys the Solar Harvester by shooting it down and takes on both Megatron and The Fallen. After severely damaging Megatron, Optimus faces off against The Fallen and kills him by tearing away part of his faceplate then forcing his fist through his torso and crushing The Fallen's spark with his bare hands. Megatron and Starscream retreat and Megatron vows that their fight is not finished.

Optimus Prime concludes the event by proclaiming that the Transformers and humans now share an untold history and will combine despite their differences.

Quotes
Sideswipe: Damn, I'm good.
 * Sideswipe, we've figured that.

Ironhide - Punkass Decepticon! Optimus - Any last words? Demolishor - This is not your planet to rule! The Fallen shall rise again! Epps - That doesn't sound good. Optimus - Not today... (shoots face off)
 * Demolishor sure knows how to make a plot hole.

Megatron: Even in death there is no command but mine! Scene change to The Fallen's Chamber Megatron: My master, I have failed you.
 * Megatron claims absolute command, then immediately drops to a knee in front of his absolute leader. Quite a confused 'Con.

Wheelie: Ow! That's my eye you crazy bitch!
 * Yeah, but when you attempt to burgle a Warrior Goddess, what do you expect?

Leo: They're REAL?!
 * This coming from the guy who said the Internet doesn't lie on those videos he keeps posting.

Mikaela: Kiss this, bitch!
 * If Wheelie saw that scene, he'd be wetting himself.

Leo: Can I just sit and watch? I'll eat my pizza quietly!
 * More proof that Leo is one disturbed man.

"Hello, Professor! I'll do anything for an 'A'!"
 * Judy Witwicky feeling the effects of her "environmentally friendly brownies" which is just marajuana...

Megatron: Is the future of our race not worth a single human life? Optimus Prime: You'll never stop at one. I'll take you all on!
 * Humans are like potato chips. You can't have just one.

Seymour Simmons: "What is going on?" Leo: "How many times can you get tased in the nuts before you can't have kids? You know!
 * Like Leo ever WILL have kids.


 * Jetfire "Itchy, wretched, rust in my arse!"
 * Rust, huh? OIL SLICK!

" I have no time to talk, I'm on a mission. I'm a mercenary doom-bringer. What planet am I on? Earth? A terrible name for a planet. Might as well call it "Dirt", Planet "Dirt."

"Do you know what my father was?! A wheel! The first wheel! And do you know what he transformed into?! NOTHING! But he did so with honor! Dignity, dammit!"
 * Jetfire, perhaps revealing more about his lineage than he'd intended.

"Dude, the government can hear and track you through those things!"
 * Sam in reaction to Leo watching a video on his cell phone while they are on the run to protect Sam.
 * (This is a reference to Eagle Eye, another movie Shia LaBeouf was in. The main premise of this movie is that the government can monitor you through your cell phones.)

Mudflap: "Nobody messes with the twins!"
 * This coming from the guy who was nearly turned into slag by a mean robot.

"I'm gonna bust your face up!"
 * Mudflap doing the only useful thing he did in the entire movie.

"I'm directly below the enemy's scrotum."
 * Agent Simmons on the coordinates under Devastator's "wrecking balls".

"Die like your brother!" "They were your brothers too!"
 * The Fallen and Optimus Prime. Talk about brotherly love.

Jetpower Optimus Prime: "I rise, you fall!"
 * The Fallen living up to his name again.

Jetpower Optimus Prime:"Give me your face!"
 * Geez, first Bonecrusher, then Demolishor, now your brother?!

"Not to call you a coward, master... But, sometimes cowards do survive."
 * You'd know all about that, wouldn't you, Starscream?

"You're Optimus Prime. You don't need me."
 * Sam expressing the feelings of many fans.

Rating
This film has been rated PG-13 in the United States for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, robo-gore, language, crude, brief drug material and sexual material. In the United Kingdom, the film was rated 12A for the same reasons.

Errors
Argh.


 * When Bumblebee, Skids and Mudflap are on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge coming into Philadelphia, (if you look you can see I-676 heading to Camden, NJ in a sign above on the opposite direction) from where the group is heading. They are nowhere near NYC at all. Moreover, they show going into NYC prior.


 * At Simmons Deli, which is to be in NYC, is actually Philadelphia, reason being: The Elevated Train above coming into the scene is SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority), if u look closely and go clip by clip you can see the SEPTA Logo on the Side of the train. SEPTA as I know doesn’t travel into NYC. Ooops!


 * In the Frat House Party where Sam gets images from the symbols and uses the icing from the cake to write them on the table, Alice approaches him and asks him if he's okay. Sam says he is getting a napkin for his drink. He then gets a drink of punch from the bar. Initially, the drink is full, when Alice says she wants to dance, the drink is almost empty. When Sam states he's in a semi-relationship the glass is full again. We don't see Sam set the glass down before Alice slams him into the bar while in the chair before the big dude screams about who drove the freaking yellow Camaro parked in the lawn.


 * We see Alice in front of Leo and walking near the rear of the Camero in the first scene, then she is walking behind Leo then magically appears in the passenger window from another camera view, but the audiences didn't see her approach in the back window side window of the Camero.


 * At the beginning of the film, some primitive humans were hunting a Bengal Tiger, in Egypt, which is on the African continent. Bengal Tigers live 3,000 miles away from Egypt, primarily in India and Bangladesh, which are in Asia. Errors like this have happened before.


 * When the Fallen begins attacking the primitive humans at the beginning of the film, starting by crushing one with his foot, in one scene he has his right leg lifted up, but in the next scene, he's crushed a human with his left leg.


 * When Skids and Mudflap transform, (in their Ice cream truck form) there are popsicles falling out of Mudflap's half, but they mysteriously disappear in the next scene.


 * When The Fallen boasts that, "Only a Prime can defeat me", the first three words aren't modified, making him sound somewhat like Megatron. ... Now we see that even live-action movies aren't free from mistakes that occur in animations. Admittedly, as Tony Todd actually sounds this way, it is difficult to tell if any of his speech is modified.


 * When Megatron transforms and lands on the radio tower, he clearly lands facing the tower. Yet in the next scene, he's seen with his back to the tower. A close observation and slower frame shows the answer: basically, it's a complete graphical cheat.


 * In the flyover shot of the barge on which the four Constructicons sit, a red bulldozer, a concrete mixer, a green dump truck and a yellow front-end loader are visible. After the flyover shot, the yellow loader disappears and is replaced with a yellow Volvo excavator, and the red bulldozer has changed to a yellow bulldozer.


 * Grindor's vehicle mode is a CH-53E Super Stallion, but when he arrives in the forest to assist Megatron the Radar Pave Low bulb that is seen on Blackout in the 2007 film is featured on Grindor.


 * After Optimus ripped Grindor's face, his headless body is without the propellers.
 * Actually, when Optimus uses Starscream's missile launcher to shoot Grindor, it appears as though the blast knocked off his propellers.
 * However, in the scene where Optimus rips off Grindor's face, his helicopter engines are missing, and when Optimus pulls him to the ground, they return on his shoulders.


 * The BACK of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (actually the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian in Virginia) is a desert?!
 * The exterior is actually the Davis-Monthan Airforce Base's graveyard, located in Tucson, but is explicitly called the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the film, making this a bit of an error since the back of the real Smithsonian is downtown DC.


 * According to the subtitle, the Air Force Base Optimus is taken to after his death is in New Jersey. This is not possible. The base is in a desert, and there are no deserts in New Jersey. Also, the C-17's read Altus, a base that is NOT in New Jersey.


 * After the first fight with Optimus Prime, a bird's-eye view of New York City is shown. However, a scene later, Megatron and Starscream are seen on top of a Los Angeles building.


 * So, Devastator is too heavy to stay on his legs and has to support himself with hands, but is light enough to climb on the pyramid without crushing its walls?
 * Well, there's a Sun Harvester under it, so maybe it wasn't built by humans, but by Transformers? But anyway, the walls are absurdly thin, which can be seen when the Fallen stands on top of the destroyed pyramid. Most likely, they wouldn't survive Devastator's "trip".
 * The walls of a pyramid are very, very thick. They were only thin near the top where the sun harvester stuck out. Also, the pyramid wall is slanted, so if Devastator was too heavy, he would have slid down, not crushed the wall. He was supported by his own grip.


 * When The Fallen gets the Matrix, he was not holding his staff. But when The Fallen makes the military vehicles float, he was shown holding his staff.
 * All things considered though, lots of Transformers have a habit of having their weapons attached to them and then they "transform" when needed.


 * In some scenes, the Transformers were seen to have 'battle damaged' parts, but when they transform, the broken parts returned to normal, such as Optimus Prime, who had the glass on his chest smashed.


 * During the Air Force bombarding of the Decepticons in Egypt, Ironhide, barely in one piece, gets clear of the explosion but loses his left cannon. Later, right after the Fallen steals the Matrix from Optimus, that same cannon is shown on Ironhide's left arm again.


 * Leo claims he accidentally tased himself in the nuts, but if you look closely, when Leo tripped over the guard's foot and the taser touched him, it was around his abdominal area.


 * When Wheelie scans the United States map to show the locations of the Seekers, Simmons says that the closest one is in Washington DC; However, DC is not even scanned. The closest location is actually more like Trenton, New Jersey.


 * When Optimus gives up Jetfire's parts, he also gives up huge rifle on his right arm, but when his fighting The Fallen, that rifle isn't there. He only uses it to destroy the Solar Harvester and shoot The Fallen once. And that smaller gun which first was attached to his left arm, appears on his right arm before cutting into The Fallen’s face.


 * Optimus Prime is revived during the afternoon, but in the next scene when the Fallen looks towards the sun, it's midday.


 * So, apparently Michael Bay thinks marijuana makes you act like a crazy person. Clearly he's never seen someone get high, because marijuana mellows the user out.
 * Perhaps it is an very unusual form of "pot paranoia", the "down" which follows the initial "high". Or, it must be considered that kids are parts of the audiences, so showing the real effects of marijuana would not be that "funny". Though perhaps educationally preventative.


 * When the Constructicons begin to transform and merge into Devastator, Scrapper lifts his scoop but in the next shot it's still on the ground.
 * When the turn is for Long Haul the camera goes up, a side mirror magically appears in the right side.
 * In the same shot, it can be seen that the Constructicons are in different positions, as an example, Mixmaster appears in front of Scrapper but in the next shot he is in front of Scavenger.
 * When Mixmaster attaches to Scavenger, Devastator's mouth appears and roars, but he roars again with a different voice a few shots ahead.


 * For some reason, the opening shot of the Solar Harvester shows it residing in a rocky gorge in the mountains, yet, when the final battle is taking place in Egypt, the terrain is smooth and flat.


 * Only a Prime can defeat The Fallen. So why didn't the Six Primes all gang up and wipe him out?


 * The first interaction between Cybertronians and Humans was 13,000 BC, yet, they keep sayin' it was "a millennia ago" which would mean, 1,000 years.

Continuity errors
Argh.


 * Sam got shot by Megatron and died, understandably, and then was brought back to life by the Primes. But, instead of having broken bones, he just gets up and revives Optimus Prime. He should have taken time to do this or at least have noted the possibility, as he just died and came back to life. He doesn't have superhuman abilities, no metallic bones of special parts. His body structure is average perhaps the Primes healed him? Nooo.


 * It's clearly established in the first film that Cybertronians had nothing to do with humans. The sequel directly demolishes this by claiming that Cybertronians have been here before.
 * It is possible this was a fact unknown to the Transformers present in the first movie, however, this is a contradiction left unanswered on screen.


 * Bumblebee picks up Sam at the party in the evening (as evidenced by time pieces) and arrives at the cemetery in the daytime. Is the travel distance and/or time between the two places so great as to show such a marked change?


 * If Transformers are radioactive, wouldn't Sam have debilitating brain damage after all that time riding around inside Bumblebee?
 * Answer: Low levels of radiation would not be harmful, even in the long run. The average human is exposed to about 360mrems each year. Like X-Rays.


 * When Megatron is revived, five Decepticons go down to revive him, one is torn up for parts to repair him, and somehow six still come up out of the water. If one was torn up, it would have still been five total leaving the water. It seems we have a second, unspecified resurrection.[sarcasm]
 * Note: Scalpel doesn't count because is too small to be detected by sonar.
 * This is further compounded when the four Decepticons are first seen from a bird's eye view as Ravage arrives, then when the view changes so to do the positions of the Decepticons with a crane Decepticon magically appearing and then vanishing in the next shot when the four originally seen Decepticons enter the water.


 * Some fans speculate that Bonecrusher survived from the previous film which is highly disputable.


 * Why would the U.S. military allow any craft to sail so close to Laurentian Abyss, which is patrolled by the US military and not allowed anyone get closed?


 * When Bumblebee fights Skipjack in Egypt, he gets his face mask ripped in half by Ravage, yet in the next shot, it shows him wearing his complete face mask. It's also possible that his mask just got pulled back a bit, like in Transformers right after he and Mikaela killed Brawl.


 * USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is sunk by the crashing of the Decepticon Protoforms. She displays the identification number "74" instead of the proper "71". To add confusion, USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) shows up later in the film displaying the number "71"! It is possible that adjustments to the images of the numerals on these ships were to be made using CGI, but were forgotten.


 * It's never clear why Alice is after Sam, being at his college before he arrived there, and before she finds him drawing Cybertronian symbols. She may be after the AllSpark fragment, or she could just be trying to kill him in revenge of Megatron. No explanation is explicitly stated or even implied. Um, well... in fact, why she's even there is unexplained, leaving it entirely open to the vividness of the viewers imagination.


 * Though Sam's hand is injured after Jetfire transported them to Egypt, his hand is professionally bandaged, which can be only done by a doctor or someone with a high degree of medical knowledge. One might wonder about the origin of the material, but the origin of the Doctor seems a bit more curious.
 * Though Sam's injury is a concession due to Shia LaBeouf's real-life injury of his hand, it still leaves a continuity question.


 * When Jetfire is told he is on "Earth", he reacts like he has never heard of the planet at all, though this may be due to linguistic naming conventions having changed over time. However, he is able to teleport the humans very close to the "unknown" location of the Tomb of the Primes and describe the epic battle that took place without any further explanation to clarify this point to him.


 * Megatron tells Starscream that the Decepticons aren't going to "hide" from the humans anymore. But when did Megatron ever hide? He came back to life, immediately starting fighting Autobots in broad daylight in a major city, died, came back to life, and immediately started fighting Autobots in broad daylight again. Sure, someone may have told him off-screen that the Decepticons had been in hiding before finding him inside the Hoover Dam and again during his two-year underwater entombment, but it's an awkward line given Megatron's past actions. In addition to that, both of these thirty-foot-tall intelligent metallic aliens are having this casual chat about revealing themselves to the humans whilst standing atop a building in the middle of a DENSELY POPULATED CITY. That renders the entire "Robots in Disguise" concept a little moot.


 * When Sam holds up the pictures of the older Transformers to Wheelie, the two pictures switch between shots.


 * After takeoff, the Predator magically loses its propeller engine and somehow gets a rocket engine. This is due to the scene being stock footage from the first movie, but remains an in-continuity error. In fact, there's a lot of reused footage from the first movie.
 * In fact, the drone shown taking off is an MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), while the reused footage is of an MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) used for surveillance and reconnaissance. Only the Reaper drone has a prop engine, whereas the Predator is jet-powered.


 * Leo was tasered by Simmons when he started whining in the desert scene, and yet he steps out of Bumblebee minutes later as though nothing happened.
 * The effects of some tasers only last a couple minutes.
 * Wasn't he tasered in the gnads?


 * Somehow, Devastator's vortex generator was powerful enough to suck up a people carrier (which would easily weigh more than a ton or a few) and NOT two humans. Also, as Devastator starts his vortex, Leo desperately clings onto a pole for dear life. Yet, a short time later, he and Simmons are now running away from Devastator, even though the sound effect of the vortex clearly indicates that the vortex was running stronger than before.
 * Also worth noting: Simmons cleverly figures out that they're safe under Devastator and suggests running there.... when Devastator could very easily restarted his vortex and welcomed all of them if it were not for Mudflap who unexpectedly burst out of his face.


 * Sam somehow suddenly knows the Fallen's name. The twins and Wheelie couldn't possibly have told him the name for obvious reasons: only the very old ones have even heard of the name. Again, an easily cleared up mystery considering the voices in his head, or perhaps the surprisingly expansive knowledge of Wheelie, which even so was left completely unresolved in the movie.
 * Mikaela could've told him at some point. Wheelie mentioned something about the Fallen demanding him find the Allspark shard so she might've mentioned to him that there was someone else with that name looking for it.


 * When they reach the main exhibit in the museum, Simmons claimed they incapacitated five guards; they only took out two. Maybe Simmons incapacitated the other three off screen, but who knows.


 * Jetfire's presence and physical status leave many questions. How long has he been inactive? What was his status during the Civil War?  What was he doing in an inactive status on Earth at that time?  And why was he using the form of a sadly defunct vehicle at the time?  Was he unable to take a new form, unaware of the need, or just too tired to care?  We are left with more mysteries than a Sherlock Holmes anthology.


 * This is the first movie in the series so far to actually mention energon. Simmons and Sam both seem to know what energon is all of the sudden, and talk about it as though they've known all along, despite the fact that nobody mentioned it in the previous film.

Not actually an error
Argh.


 * If N.E.S.T team can weed out and pinpoint Decepticons from all over the world, how did they not find the four Constructicons who sat directly above Megatron's remains? With several possible answers, none is so much as implied.


 * Sam's paranoid roommate makes a reference to a Transformer battle in Los Angeles, but the battle in the first movie took place in fictitious Mission City. It's possible that a battle took place in Los Angeles some time between the two movies, but it's not clear. However, this is still possible considering that Lennox said that NEST has been working for two years.
 * Also, if you type "Mission City" in Google Earth, it will take you to downtown Los Angeles, but it was stated that it is 22 miles north of Hoover Dam, however Tranquility, Sam's hometown, could be a neighborhood in Las Angelas, and he could have seen Bumblebee and Barricade's brawl.


 * When Grindor arrives in the forest to aid his commander Megatron, the helicopter looks totally computerized as the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter but is actually the CH-53E Super Stallion.


 * So, an AllSpark shard can be used to revive Megatron, yet neither Sam nor the Autobots thinks to use the last remaining shard to resurrect Optimus in the first place? Sure, the Autobots don't EXPLICITLY know that the Decepticons used the AllSpark fragment to revive Megatron, but that event immediately followed them stealing the fragment, so they could have put two and two together. Besides, when Wheelie instructs Sam to use his fragment to revive Jetfire, why doesn't ANYONE in the room think of Optimus? It's possible that this wouldn't have worked; perhaps Jetfire was simply in stasis lock, and perhaps Megatron wasn't actually killed by the AllSpark (or perhaps he could be resurrected by the AllSpark because most of it had been fused with his spark). Either way, it's a massive plot oversight.


 * When Grindor is carrying Sam, Mikaela and Leo, he doesn't seem to care that Sam is hanging on to the car and could fall. Megatron needs Sam so he can extract the information he needs.


 * There are a few repeated shots of characters and scenes, such as Soundwave in space, Bumblebee shooting at the tiny appliance robots, and a heavily damaged Optimus looking up, along with a shot of the Predator plane from the previous film, as well as other Transformers entering the Earth's atmosphere.


 * After the events of the first movie, there was at least one known fragment of the All Spark left, which was later stolen and used to revive Megatron, which makes people wonder, why didn't the Autobots use it to revive Jazz?


 * In the scene where the Autobots (in alternate modes) are chilling in the hangar, Jolt is missing among them. He shows up later in one of the two shots of the Autobots dispersing into teams, and again when Optimus' body is dropped off at the NEST headquarters. Perhaps a late arrival?


 * Jetfire complains about his age and robustness, but says to Optimus: "Take my (rusty old broken down) parts, and you will have a power you've never known." Perhaps the 'power you've never known' was the power to fly?


 * How did Megatron know WHICH boy absorbed the knowledge of AllSpark? The Fallen only told him that it was absorbed by "the human child." child. Then again, only Sam and Mikaela would be in any sort of position to absorb the AllSpark. Megatron knows right away who The Fallen is talking about, or can make a pretty good guess. Megatron clearly doesn't consider Mikaela a possibility, but considering that he never really crossed paths with her in the first film, it makes sense that he wouldn't think of her. Megatron is not a chauvinist, we promise. While his mind may well leap to the only human child he has interacted with, it is still a bit of a stretch to automatically assume and base your future actions on an assumption.


 * The Decepticons foolishly use the Witwickys to bring Sam close to Rampage rather than actively ransoming them.


 * Alice's mass does not crush Sam when she is on top of him, even though every part of her besides the organic shell is made of metal. Some viewers had a problem with this, though unknown chemistry or support may play a role.


 * Sam is so smart that when he has "a few miles to go", he decides to run them on foot and have his car follow him, rather than drive to the meet-up point and get there before most of the Decepticons.


 * When Sam's identity was practically given out to everyone (probably those who were watching their TVs) on Earth, his magical hoodie gave him instant immunity from millions of possible death mobs and the ability to freely walk the streets to greet his secret agent-turned-chef friend. In fact, not a single person even seems to bother about Sam: no uproars, no mobs, nothing, to capture Sam. And after the massive, impossible to cover up endfight, it appears that no one deigns to ask Sam why his face appeared on every connected screen in the world. Apparently his entire college campus live in some kind of disconnected bubble-dimension.


 * Apparently everyone in Shanghai is also blind and deaf since no one noticed that it was a giant robot that caused the destruction instead of a a gas explosion.


 * Oddly, when The Fallen makes his broadcast, no one really seems to care in a sort of pee-your-pants, evil alien invasion way. The humans just watch it like a bad movie. Or maybe they just shrugged it off and took it as a bad joke or exhibited blind human nature.
 * Simmons keeps his collection of top secret files, pictures from Sector Seven, and Frenzy's head in a room with at least two OPEN, eight foot high windows on a ground floor? We can see his security training has served him well.


 * Even though the Constructicons merged into Devastator, we can see Long Haul, Mixmaster and Scrapper among the fighting Decepticons in the climax battle. This can be explained by the fact that there are possibly multiple copies of each Constructicon, which might also explain both Demolishor and Scavenger both having the Terex excavator Altmode.


 * We know that in the first film, the only human-made weapon that can damage Transformers is the Sabot round, and yet during the Egypt battle, Lennox and his men are clearly seen rushing into battle armed with conventional weapons. What's even stranger is how these weapons seemed to be actually effective against the Decepticons (several Protoforms seemed to have been killed by normal machine gun fire whilst others were clearly damaged by said weapons). Maybe advances were made in human technology during the two-year gap between the two films? But we know that even if this is possible, the Autobots had nothing to do with it as Optimus clearly stated that sharing their knowledge on advanced weaponry would end badly with the humans.
 * During multiple battles throughout the movie, the NEST members are using a modified version of either the M-16 Assault rifle or the M-4 Carbine, with drastic modifications made to the barrel, which, presumably, could enable them to fire the 40mm Sabot rounds that were so effective in the first film. No dialogue or real evidence backs this theory up, but the fact that their guns were modified and that NEST served as a specialized Decepticon-hunting team would support this. Also, not all weapons were ineffective in the first film; missiles launched from F-22 Raptor Jet Fighters were clearly able to damage both Megatron and Blackout, therefore, it's not much of a stretch to assume that concentrated tank fire, carpet bombing, and 50 caliber machine gun fire could do some damage in the battles.


 * As with the first film (and all other media, in fact), the Transformers go through all the trouble of disguising themselves as normal vehicles, but still keep their insignias on obvious parts (e.g. as part of their paint job or hood ornaments)? Now that the human governments are aware of their presence, who's going to fall for it except the public?


 * There are several problems regarding The Fallen. When Optimus Prime is killed by Megatron, The Fallen senses it from Nemesis, pulling himself free from his throne and says, "The last Prime is dead." There's appears to be a direct connection between the Primes and whatever force has kept The Fallen in his throne, but if so who put him there? The six other Primes sacrificed themselves to protect the Matrix of Leadership, and it's implied that there were only seven Primes in the film, and he asserts that "only a Prime" can defeat him... so who was powerful enough to imprison The Fallen?


 * The possibility that The Fallen was trapped does explain why he doesn't appear in the first film.


 * Jetfire says that Optimus Prime must be "a great descendant" of the Primes. This throws into question the idea of "descendants" and how Transformer reproduction works in the live-action film universe. Also, if The Fallen and his brother were Primes, and if Optimus and Megatron are literally brothers instead of a turn of phrase(per the end of the first film), wouldn't that already make Megatron a Prime? Or can Transformers be adopted? It's a very fuzzy concept.


 * And if Megatron was a Prime, wouldn't he have to die again so The Fallen could be free?


 * It is left explicitly unclear why the Primes killed themselves to hide the Matrix. Some form of self preservation as in their later ghost images? To cover an energy signature?  No answer is given.


 * The Seven Primes' main rule was "to never destroy a planet with life". This doesn't make direct sense because they destroy the sun, not the planet, though destruction of the planet is effectively inevitable. In the Movie Adaptation comics, the rule is "never destroy a star that sustains life". Sounds better this way.


 * The Fallen said that only a Prime can defeat him. However, if Megatron was able to kill a Prime, doesn't it makes Megatron supposed-to-be the strongest one among all Transformers.
 * That rule may only work for the original Dynasty of Primes being able to kill another of them or themselves.


 * When some Autobots transform, all the scrapes and marks are visible, but when they're in alt mode, they're perfect like brand new cars.

Transformers references

 * Optimus Prime gets killed off, eventually. Don't worry, he will be back online very soon, but much later than his Animated incarnation, who’s death only lasted for 75 seconds.


 * Sam's brain contains lots of Sparks, similar to Buster Witwicky, whose brain contained the Creation Matrix for a while.


 * This is not the first time that Egypt is related to the Transformer race.


 * Optimus Prime killed Demolishor in a manner that slightly resembles the way Megatron gave Ironhide a final blow in the film The Transformers: The Movie.


 * Mikaela's line, "I am your worst nightmare!", was also spoken by Optimus Prime in The Transformers episode "War Dawn".


 * Like last time, Sam was interrogated by the Decepticons again.


 * When fighting with Decepticons in the forest, Optimus Prime insults Megatron and Grindor, calling them wasted material. Generation One Optimus Prime did almost the same thing in The Transformers episode "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2", calling Megatron "junk".


 * Optimus Prime spits something like his teeth in the forest battle, much like Optimal Optimus spat his tooth in the Beast Wars episode "Nemesis Part 2".


 * Mudflap gets drawn into Devastator's suction vortex, similar to the way Optimal Optimus got pulled in by Nemesis' tractor beam in the Beast Wars episode "Nemesis Part 2". It has similar gears and blades inside, along with light behind them.


 * Soundwave says "Yessss".
 * So does Megatron a couple of times. Déjà vu.


 * During the battle in the "middle of nowhere" while the Decepticons are looking for Sam, you can hear one of the Decepticons say something that sounds a LOT like "Laserbeak".


 * The Sun Harvester is remarkably similar to the Solar Needle in The Transformers episode "Changing Gears".


 * The Matrix of Leadership is a MacGuffin device like the good ole days.


 * For some reason, the Transformers demonstrate many organic actions, such as Starscream spitting, Bumblebee crying, Jetfire farting a drag chute, and dying bots leaking fluids like humans drip blood. [(The glowing 'blood' may be Energon, but this is unconfirmed even as they were leaking it in the first movie as well.) Remember they have their vehicle parts intergraded within their robot mode, there are fluids in every vehicle, like power steering, washer fluid, anti-freeze in 2 colours, red/orange or fluorescing yellow etc.]
 * In addition, when Optimus gets his faceplate smashed by Megatron, it seems to release some darker fluid.
 * Megatron does the same thing after getting a blast from Prime's jet-boosters trough the wall.


 * The ending scene on the Aircraft carrier is similar to First movie's ending: Optimus's ending speech and the pose he said it are the most notable, along with Linkin Park's song as background music. Guess there's something predictable in the third movie.

Characters

 * Alice is based on the concept of the Pretender.


 * Jetfire defected to the Autobots from the Decepticons, just like Skyfire, his Generation One counterpart.


 * Jetfire mentioned his father is a wheel, which could be a reference to Scrounge, whose alt mode is a wheel.


 * When Sam has his "meltdown" in astronomy class, he begins to explain the mathematics behind mass shifting while he is up at the blackboard. As a part of his babble, he blurts out Sentinel Prime's name, as well.


 * When Sam is in the graveyard of Planes in Tucson w/Jetfire carving Cybertronian symbols in the ground are actually Cybertronian numbers and some other odd symbols, which are unknown.


 * Soundwave is voiced by Frank Welker, just like his Generation One counterpart. In addition, the relationship between Soundwave and Ravage is just like their Generation One counterparts.


 * Arcee transforms into a bike, like her Energon counterpart.


 * Sideswipe bears has doors as his armours hanging from his elbows, like his Generation One counterpart.


 * Even in her full robotic form, Alice's tongue at the tip of her tentacle seems to remain fleshy. Ewww.


 * Wheelie acts like a perv fan boy. Hmmm...


 * A Megatron that transforms into a non-earth tank with two pairs of tracks and his face jutting out in front, an Optimus Prime that can combine with Jetfire to gain flight, human-sized Transformers, and an Autobot defected from Decepticon. This sounds much more familiar than it should...

Real-world references

 * When Megatron returns to the Nemesis, the place in the scene slightly resembles the nest of the Alien.


 * Jetfire's quote "I'm too old for this crap" is quite similar to Riggs's and Murthaug's "I'm too old for this Sh*t" from Lethal weapon
 * When Megatron gets back to the Decepticon mothership, he says "Starscream, I'm home." This might be a reference to I Love Lucy.


 * Starscream states they don't have enough Energon to keep the young Protoforms alive. It somehow resembles Dracula's need for The Monster's life source to bring his undead children to life in the film Van Helsing.


 * Starscream climbs the Empire State Building, just like Devastator's homage to King Kong in The Transformers episode "City of Steel".


 * During the hunt for allies in Museum, in the background many historical planes can be seen. One was shown very clearly - Sam and Mikaela go past Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.


 * Professor Colan says the line "I am the Alpha and the Omega", a line from the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, as well as the Covenant of Primus.


 * A chase occurs in the library, just like the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, also starring Shia LaBeouf.


 * When The Fallen and his army crash into the aircraft carrier, it sinks much like the RMS Titanic did in the 1997 film  Titanic, and features similar scenes.


 * Your classmate is a hot fembot? Riiight.


 * Alice is a hot Pretender, not a hot alien like Sil. Stop asking.


 * In Sam's room in the college dorm there are various posters for real world movies, such as Cloverfield.


 * Like the film Armageddon is mentioned in the previous movie, there is a poster of the film ''Bad Boys II on the wall of Sam's room.
 * Both films are directed by Michael Bay.


 * The love scene at night in Egypt resembles another love scene from another one of Michael Bay's films, Armageddon.


 * In Leo's computer room, there's a textile scroll/poster for the anime series Naruto in the background. Believe it!


 * President Barack Obama is indeed the president in this film. A clip of him is shown during the video threat from The Fallen. And a news reporter mentions Obama being flown to a safe zone, after the threat is made. Don't tell Joe Biden!


 * As the group descends into Simmons' basement, Leo mentions his fear of Swine Flu, as they pass the dead pigs in the meat locker.


 * When Sam is "killed", Mikaela tries to bring him back by admitting she loves him. This may be a reference to the film The Matrix as Neo is killed by Smith (played by Hugo Weaving just like Megatron). Apparently anything Hugo Weaving does can be undone with love.
 * Additionally, this is the second time that a character played by Weaving has a squid-like robot invasively implanted into the orifices of an interrogation subject - the first time having been in The Matrix as well.

Transformers sequel and the 2007-2008 Writers Strike
In late 2007, during preproduction for the then-untitled Transformers sequel, the Writers Guild of America went on strike. At the time, Roberto Orci stated that the strike could likely delay Transformers 2's release. However, Michael Bay refuted this, claiming the movie was still on schedule. The reason behind Bay's confidence was discovered by Orci shortly after the strike ended. The director had apparently taken the outline the writers had handed in the night before the strike, and begun movie prep based on it.

Trivia

 * Knock offs: Star Wars, Terminator, Van Helsing, and many, many more...with direct quotes, or technologies, or concepts. (All unnecessarily since they did have a decent amount of original material they could have pulled from.)
 * Megatron is a self-proclaimed, undisputed leader, yet he only calls one his master: The Fallen. Undoubtedly like the relationship between Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, except Megatron does not revolt against the Fallen and kill him. He does here though...
 * The Decepticon Protoform that gets his head shot off, and in so doing, fires some stray shots, reveals "T-1000" on his right arm as he falls.


 * The reason why Sam's college was never identified was because of Judy becoming high on marijuana brownies in one scene. As the set for Sam's college was Princeton and University of Pennsylvania, the scene resulted in both colleges forcing Michael Bay to keep his mouth shut about the exact college Sam went to.


 * So far, all the Transformers live-action films feature a concept car in each of them. In other words, a car that hasn't been manufactured but is in design. The first film features the 2009 Concept Camaro for Bumblebee, and the sequel features a 2010 Corvette Stingray for Sideswipe.


 * Along with Devastator and Optimus and Jetfire, Arcee and her sisters were originally supposed to combine.


 * They spent too much time on Megan Fox, and not the Transformers or plot!


 * When the film was giving poor to negative reviews by critics, some argued that Megan Fox was "Stealing the Show", taking most of the screentime from all the characters an their respective actors. Fox also did this in Jennifer's Body. 2009 was not a good year for the actress as she won a Razzie for "Worst Actress" in both movies.


 * Different from the previous film, no Autobots get killed of this time, technically.
 * Exept for Jetfire, who sacrificed himself. And maybe two Arcees.


 * Here's the body count of the film:
 * Optimus Prime: Three kills; Demolishor, Grindor and The Fallen
 * He appears to prefer taking his enemies' heads.
 * Jetfire: Two kills; Mixmaster and Scorponok
 * Sideswipe: numerous kills; Sideways and some Decepticon protoforms.
 * Megatron: Three kills; Optimus Prime (temporary), Sam (also temporary) and a helicopter
 * Bumblebee: numerous kills; Ravage, Skipjack, and the Appliancebots.
 * Long Haul: One kill; Jordanian helicopter
 * Bonecrusher look-alike: Two kills; blue and purple Arcee (maybe not)
 * Mikaela: One kill; Alice
 * Sam: One kill; an Insecticon.
 * Constructicons: One kill; Scrapmetal - may not count since he is one of their own.
 * The Military: Many, Many Decepticon protoforms.
 * Ironhide: Some Decepticon protoforms.
 * Ratchet: Some Decepticon protoforms.
 * Jolt: Some Decepticon protoforms.
 * Agent Simmons: Devastator, via military rail gun.
 * Demolishor: Someone in a truck
 * Reedman: One of the guards.
 * Ravage: Anyone he shot at.
 * The intro for the DreamWorks and Paramount logos have more of a Decepticon sound effect.


 * In the game Halo: Reach, the MAC gun the player uses to defend the Pillar of Autumn at the end of the level "Pillar of Autumn" looks strikingly similar to the rail gun used by the U.S Navy to kill Devastator.

External link

 * Dreamworks/Paramount's Transformers Movie website


 * Interview with Michael Bay at Collider.com


 * Revenge of the Fallen Quotes -


 * Ten Things About Transformers Revenge of the Fallen That Didn't Make Any Sense at Film.com