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And Now, Our Feature Distraction

tripeFor those few of you still sitting on the fence about "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" I offer the following snippets of critiques gathered by Mary Pols at movieline.com:

9. “My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” — Mary Pols, Time Magazine

8. “Michael Bay has once again transformed garbage into something resembling a film, at least in the loosest sense: it can be run through a projector and used to sell millions of tickets.” — Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

7. “At 149 minutes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is six minutes longer than the 2007 noise machine from which this sequel sprang, but those six minutes are like dog minutes.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

6. “Fallen indulges Bay’s excesses well past the point of reason to deliver the male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.” — Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons

5. “It finally occurred to me that pyrotechnics are Bay’s pornography: massive, fiery money-shots. The bigger the fireball, the more he gets his rocks off. I hope he had a sufficient supply of tissues in the editing room.” — Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine

4. “This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
3. “I don’t have much nice to say about Transformers 2, but I’m happy to see my Park Slope neighbor John Turturro get another big paycheck.” — David Edelstein, New York Magazine

2. “I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it. […] What we have right here is the Easter Island statue of our legacy.” — MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher

1. “Terry Schiavo would have been bored by this bloated, ponderous piece of shit.” — Devin Faraci, CHUD

Also from the Chicao Tribune review: "It's like watching a dryer full of rocks for two hours."

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Movie theatre. Man walking into "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".
To his right is a room where you can check your brain. Shelves lined with brains.