MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG-13
150 minutes

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format: 35mm

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox).

Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth.

National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless.

Sam does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good. [www.tribute.ca]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is more proof [Bay] has a great eye for scale and a gift for visceral amazement.
      -- Armond White, New York Press. Read this review.