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You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Production info Production companies DreamWorks Hasbro di Bonaventura Pictures Distributor Paramount Pictures Release date June 24, 2009 Written by Ehren Kruger Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman Directed by Michael Bay Edited by Roger Barton Paul Rubell Joel Negron Thomas A. Muldoon Cinematography by Ben Seresin Music by Steve Jablonsky Associate producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Tom DeSanto Don Murphy Ian Bryce Executive producer Steven Spielberg Continuity Live-action film series Running time 150 minutes Budget $200–210 million Box office $836.3 million

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the second film in the live-action film series, a sequel to Transformers. It was released in North America on June 24, 2009.

The film is set two years after the events of Transformers. The Autobots have found a home in "NEST", a secret military unit created to eliminate the remaining Decepticons, and Sam is starting college and trying to leave his Transformer-laden past behind. The Decepticons are regrouping, however. Megatron is restored to life, and his master, The Fallen, schemes to activate an energon-producing Star Harvester on Earth, which will destroy the planet and provide the Decepticons with enough energon to raise an army. The Harvester's location, and the means to activate it, are hidden within Sam's mind, leading the Decepticons to wage war across the Earth as they hunt down the human. Witwicky turns to some unlikely allies to escape and survive. Ultimately, the last of the Primes defeats The Fallen, destroys the Harvester, and proves the Autobots' greatest power is found in their unexpectedly-ancient alliance with the humans.

Director Michael Bay set out to greatly expand the film's scope with settings ranging across the globe, and a much larger cast of Transformers, with over 40 robots in all.

Synopsis

In 17,000 B.C., a group of human hunters discover Transformers already on Earth, building a machine. One of the Transformers notices the humans, and his reaction is less than friendly.

Two years after the battle of Mission City, the Autobots have teamed up with the American soldiers, including Lennox and Epps, in a secret team named NEST under the command of the US military, but also incorporating soldiers from other countries such as the United Kingdom. Officially, the US government still keeps the Transformers' existence a secret.

Well, I guess you don't know everything about women yet.

NEST is hunting down the Decepticons on Earth. A region of Shanghai, China is evacuated to allow NEST to deploy with a cover-up of a toxic chemical spill occurring. As soldiers probe the region, they find the heat signature of the Decepticon Demolishor, who transforms and wreaks havoc on the roadways. His discovery prompts his partner, Sideways, to escape as well. Sideways is pursued by Arcee, Skids and Mudflap, although Sideswipe, waiting for the Decepticon, eventually slices him lengthwise in half. Optimus Prime is airlifted to Shanghai and chases Demolishor through the city with Ironhide. Optimus shoots Demolishor several times in the head, while Ironhide shoots out his wheels, causing him to crash and fall off a bypass, badly injuring himself in the process. Before Optimus kills him, Demolishor delivers the cryptic message: "The Fallen shall rise again."

You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will learn from Yoda.

Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky is preparing for his move to college and dealing with his bipolar mother. His father is looking forward to enjoying a holiday in Paris, and Mojo has a new canine companion named Frankie. Sam is on the phone to his rather snarky girlfriend, when he finds a splinter of the AllSpark lodged in his "D-Day shirt". He experiences a brief flash of images before the splinter burns him. Dropping it, Sam sees the floor catch fire as the splinter burns its way down to the kitchen, where it brings numerous kitchen devices to life. These appliancebots make their way to Sam's room and attack. He escapes to the garden, where the bots pin Sam and his father behind the water fountain. After Bumblebee has destroyed the kitchen robots (and part of the Witwickys' house with them), Sam hands the AllSpark shard to Mikaela. His mother demands Bumblebee leaves. Sam then tells Bumblebee to join the other Autobots, as both of them need to move on. Sam and Mikaela have a slight scuffle over who should say the words "I love you" first, but they kiss and move on. Sam leaves for college, and no one notices a toy car in the lawn. It detects the splinter and signals Soundwave, who is stationed in orbit around Earth, disguised as a satellite, and Soundwave orders the truck to follow the girl.

Meanwhile, NEST is in a video briefing with General Morshower, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when they are visited by National Security Adviser Theodore Galloway, who has been dispatched to relay the President's concerns over the casualties in Shanghai. As Optimus relays the warning of "The Fallen", Soundwave takes control of the satellite transmitting the message. Galloway dismisses the threat, convinced that the only reason the Decepticons are interested in Earth is because of the presence of the Autobots. Therefore, he suggests that they may leave the planet. Optimus says that, yes, they will, but also warns Galloway that he may be wrong. During the conversation, Galloway reveals the location of the AllSpark shard Optimus Prime had picked up after killing Megatron, and the location of Megatron's remains in the Laurentian Abyss.

Sam arrives at college with his parents and meets his roommate, Leo Spitz, who operates a conspiracy website and is convinced that alien robots are hiding on Earth. Sam feigns ignorance and goes to see if he can get another room, but his hunt is interrupted by his father and mother, the latter of whom has unwittingly purchased some marijuana-laced brownies. In the corridor, Leo points out Alice, another student he has the hots for. Sam is more concerned with tracking down his mother, who by now is roaming the school, informing random people about the state of Sam's virginity.

Soundwave dispatches his minion Ravage to Earth, where he infiltrates the NEST base on Diego Garcia. Ravage horks a swarm of microcons into an ventilation outlet, and they swarm down to the chamber where the AllSpark shard is being held. There they combine into Reedman, who steals the shard and joins Ravage in a rapid escape.

Although he's due to have a webcam date with Mikaela, Sam is dragged to at a frat party by Leo. He suffers some sort of attack, seeing alien glyphs which he is trying to write on a table with cake icing when he's approached by Alice, who attempts to seduce him. When Bumblebee shows up, she takes a ride with Sam, but Bumblebee does everything he can to convince her to leave, up to and including spraying her with an unidentifiable yellow liquid. Bumblebee then takes Sam to Optimus Prime, who tells him of the theft of the AllSpark shard and asks Sam to speak with the government on their behalf. Sam refuses, saying that he has his own problems and does not believe that he is the right person for this task.

What is thy bidding, my master?

At the Laurentian Abyss, Ravage meets up with several Constructicons, who have placed themselves aboard a cargo ship, then dives with them to the bottom of the ocean, where the US military has dumped Megatron's remains. Using the shard and spare parts from one of the Constructicons (who is presumably killed), "The Doctor" is able to revive Megatron, who promptly travels to one of Saturn's moons, where the Nemesis is being used as a base by the Decepticons. He is awaited by Starscream, who is overseeing the spawning of a new army of Decepticons. After beating Starscream for leaving him to die, Megatron presents himself to his master, The Fallen. Although Megatron believes he has failed, The Fallen reveals that when the Cube was destroyed, the knowledge within the AllSpark was instead transferred to Sam, and with it the means to locate a device capable of creating vast amounts of Energon. The Fallen commands Megatron to capture Sam and kill Optimus, who is the last Prime and the only transformer who can defeat The Fallen.

As he sits in Professor Colan's astronomy class, Sam suddenly reads through the entire reference book in a matter of seconds, before interrupting the Professor's lecture to scrawl more of the strange symbols on a blackboard and deliver a speed lecture on higher physics. After the Professor throws him out, he realises that the effects he's been experiencing may be linked to touching the AllSpark shard. When he calls Mikaela to warn her not to touch it, the toy-truck Decepticon tries to steal the shard, but Mikaela captures the tiny Decepticon. Mikaela promptly boards a plane to see Sam.

Alerted to multiple Decepticon contacts, NEST mobilises, but the Autobots are already on their way somewhere, and refusing to answer calls from their human comrades.

You are beaten. It is useless to resist.

Leo and Alice find Sam in the dorm room, freaking out and covering the walls with glyphs. Alice pushes Leo outside, and when Mikaela arrives, she finds Sam and Alice in what appears to be an intimate moment. It soon turns out, however, that Alice is a Decepticon as well. Mikaela, Sam and Leo flee as Alice hunts them, devastating the campus library; Mikaela eventually defeats her by slamming her into a tree with a hotwired car. The three humans try to get away but are captured by Grindor and delivered to the waiting Megatron in an abandoned building. Megatron orders "The Doctor" to remove Sam's brain in order to access the information from the AllSpark shard, but Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrive to free the three humans. Prime takes Sam and flees, but is soon overtaken by Megatron, Starscream and Grindor. In the subsequent battle, Prime injures Starscream and kills Grindor by tearing his head apart. However, Optimus is eventually impaled by Megatron and dies. The other Autobots arrive, saving Sam and causing Megatron and Starscream to retreat.

With the Decepticons unable to locate Sam on their own, Megatron decides that a show of force is in order to compel the humans to turn Sam over to him. Soundwave relays the mobilization order to the Nemesis and then tracks down Ron and Judy Witwicky in Paris. Decepticons, joined by The Fallen, enter Earth and cause massive damage in their transition forms, destroying a naval carrier in the Atlantic Ocean and attacking Paris, kidnapping Sam's parents. In a hijacked TV broadcast around the world, The Fallen reveals his existence to the world's public and demands Sam be surrendered to him or else the Decepticons will destroy the world. As a result manhunt for Sam is launched.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

Sam, meanwhile, is hiding out with Mikaela, Leo, Bumblebee and the Autobot twins, Skids and Mudflap. Leo complains loudly about the strange turn his life has taken of late, and Sam rightly tells him to shut the hell up.

The Autobots return to the NEST base, where they are surrounded by the military. Galloway tells them that he has placed in charge of NEST, which is to cease all activities relating to the Decepticons. NEST is being stood down, and they are all to return to Diego Garcia, while the military draws up a coordinated multinational strategy, buying time by negotiating with the Decepticons. Though Lennox tries to argue, it's futile as Galloway pulls rank. Ratchet says the Autobots should leave Earth altogether, but Ironhide points out that it's not what Optimus would want.

Feeling guilty for Prime's death, Sam decides to solve the mystery of the symbols he's been seeing. The Autobots identify the symbols as Cybertronian, but since the language predates their existence, they cannot translate them. Leo eventually suggests they may ask his rival, "Robo-Warrior", owner of a competing website, for help. To everyone's surprise, Robo-Warrior turns out to be none other than Seymour Simmons, former agent of Sector Seven. Simmons reveals that the Transformers were on Earth some time ago, as symbols similar to those Sam is obsessed with have been found on numerous excavation sites around the world, and that Sector Seven discovered evidence that several Transformers stayed on Earth for some time. However, in order to read the symbols, they may need a Decepticon. Mikaela then interrogates Wheelie, who identifies the symbols as the Language of the Primes, and suggests they may track down one of the ancient Seekers, the Transformers believed to be on Earth. Wheelie identifies one as being nearby, in Washington, D.C.

Looking? Found someone you have, I would say, hmmm?

At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, they discover an old Decepticon named Jetfire, disguised as an SR-71 Blackbird. After some initial confusion on his part, Jetfire explains he has defected to the Autobots, inspiring Wheelie to follow suit. When Sam finishes writing down the symbols, Jetfire says that they were part of the Seekers' mission, and he opens a space bridge and teleports himself as well as Sam, Mikaela, Leo, Simmons, Bumblebee and the Twins to Egypt. He explains that thousands of years ago, the Transformers arrived on Earth on an exploratory mission under their original leaders, the Primes. The Primes had come to build a Star Harvester, a device which can create Energon, the Transformers fuel, by destroying suns. The Primes had a single rule of never destroying a star with a living bearing world, but one of the Primes, forever known as The Fallen, despised the humans and tried to activate the machine. The Primes were unable to defeat their brother, but instead stole the Matrix of Leadership, the key needed to activate the harvester, and gave their lives to seal it in a tomb made of their own bodies. Jetfire further explains that only a Prime can hope to defeat The Fallen, and with the death of Optimus, they are doomed. Sam suggests that they may use the Matrix to revive Optimus Prime, which is backed up by Jetfire. They head towards Giza, dodging Egyptian police on the way.

In New Jersey, NEST are loading up to return to Diego Garcia when Simmons contacts Lennox to relay information about the new quest, and coordinates where they can drop Optimus's body. Lennox and Epps decide to trust the new information and go against their orders. Sam's group passes through a checkpoint, allowing Soundwave to pinpoint their location, but they reach the Pyramids of Giza, where they pick up the next clue, pointing to Jordan.

On the NEST aircraft, Lennox tricks Galloway into bailing out of the plane. Back in the US, General Morshower receives a communique from Lennox, and arranges to have assets in the target area.

In Petra, Sam's group discovers the Tomb of the Primes. Inside, Sam finds the Matrix, which instantly crumbles into dust into his hands. Sam collects the dust regardless, and he and Mikaela return outside where Simmons and Leo have spotted the NEST team parachuting into Egypt to begin preparing for battle near the pyramids.

This baby's got a few surprises in her.

Before Sam and the others can get back to Lennox and his people, the Decepticons start their attack. Bumblebee, Simmons, Leo, and the Twins draw their fire while Sam and Mikaela make a break for the soldiers. The Constructicons merge into Devastator, who proceeds to swallow Mudflap. Mudflap, however, is able to free himself, together with Skids, they try to slow Devastator down. While the Autobots and NEST fight the Decepticons, Starscream leads several other Constructicons in a search for Sam, and intending to use Sam's parents to lure him into a trap. Falling into the trap, Sam offers to hand over the Matrix dust to the Constructicon Rampage, but only to stall for time until Bumblebee is able to attack and destroy the Decepticon. Ravage attacks Bumblebee from behind, but is killed as well. Sam then orders Bumblebee to get his parents to safety while he and Mikaela try to reach Optimus Prime's body. A remote drone relays pictures back to Morshower, who launches Operation: Firestorm, ordering an immediate launch of pretty much everything they can muster.

How you get so big eating food of this kind?

In the meantime, Devastator has begun to take apart the pyramid that has been built around the Harvester. Simmons calls a navy ship off the coast of Egypt and orders the use of a railgun. Meanwhile, Sam finally meets up with Lennox and Epps, but they're pinned down by Mixmaster. Jetfire arrives and kills Mixmaster and Scorponok, but is mortally wounded by the smaller Decepticon. Simmons relays Devastator's coordinates to the Navy, who score a direct hit on the giant with their railgun. Devastator is torn to pieces and topples from the pyramid. After an air strike takes out most of the other Decepticons, Sam makes a dash for Prime's body, but is caught in the blast of a shot fired by Megatron. While paramedics try to reanimate him, the Matrix dust gets spilled across his hand, and Sam encounters the dead Primes in a vision. The Primes tell him that he was destined to find the Matrix and save the life of the last Prime. Sam returns to life, which is enough to get him and Mikaela to admit that they love each other, and the dust in his hand turns back into the Matrix, which he is able to revive Optimus Prime.

Perhaps you are not as strong as the Emperor thought.

Just then, The Fallen arrives by teleportation, steals the Matrix, and teleports himself to the pyramid, where he uses the Matrix to activate the Harvester. The soldiers and armored vehicles begin firing on the pyramid, but The Fallen raises the heavy weaponry with his telekinetic powers and destroys it all. Dying, Jetfire offers his parts to Optimus Prime, and then rips out his own Spark. Ratchet and Jolt then proceed to fuse Jetfire's remains with Optimus Prime, making him extremely powerful with flight capabilities. Optimus Prime is then able to destroy the Harvester, then faces the Fallen and Megatron. After a short, but fierce battle, Optimus defeats Megatron and kills The Fallen. Horrified at the demise of his master, the severely injured Megatron follows Starscream's suggestion and retreats, but vows that the war isn't over.

Take care, you two. May the Force be with you.

With the battle won, the Autobots, NEST, Sam and his friends return to the USA on board an aircraft carrier. Upon his return, Sam continues to attend college, while Optimus Prime sends another message detailing recent events, so the shared past of Humanity and the Autobots will not be forgotten as it was before.

Main cast

* Bumblebee's lines as spoken by Ryan were cut from the final movie, but one scene where his voice could be heard was in a promotional video created for ShoWest 2009.^[1]

† The individual known as "Skipjack" (not to be confused with Rampage who went by the name "Skipjack" in early production and even had this name carry over into the end credits), could possibly be the yellow bulldozer seen in the film that forms Devastator's left leg. The identity of this Constructicon was brought into question via what could be considered a minor retcon.^[2] (See: Skipjack (ROTF) for more details on this).

Quotes

"Gotta wonder... if God made us in his image, who made him?"

—Epps, as Galloway first witnesses Optimus's transformation.

"We've shed blood, sweat, and precious metal together."
"Soldier, you're paid to shoot, not talk."
[muttering] "Don't tempt me."

—Epps is not really happy with Galloway's plan to get rid of the Autobots.

"So let me ask: If we ultimately conclude that our national security is best served by denying you further asylum on our planet, will you leave peacefully?"
"Freedom is your right. If you make that request, we will honor it. But before your President decides, please ask him this: What if we leave, and you're wrong?"

—Galloway makes the U.S. government's position on the Autobot refugees clear, while Optimus Prime counters with a pointed argument of his own

"No, uh, it's just this friend of mine went to get you a tighter shirt."
"There isn't a tighter shirt! We checked!"

—Sam tries to deflect a pair of frat boys

"Sam, fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing."

—Optimus Prime, trying to convince Sam Witwicky to become involved in the conflict once again

"I know you’re pissed. I know you’re pissed because I tried to kill you and it's completely understandable. If somebody tried to kill me, I’d be upset, too."

—Sam Witwicky tries to relate with Megatron, to no avail.

"Is the future of our race not worth a single human life?"
"You'll never stop at one. [Unsheathes his left blade] I'll take you all on!"

—Megatron tries to justify killing Sam, but Optimus Prime disapproves based on the potato chip theory. The most epic beatdown of the film ensues.

Sam: "These symbols gotta mean something. Like a message... or a map. A map to an energon source. Can you guys read this?"
Skids: "Read?"
Mudflap: "Nu-uh, w-no. We don't really do much reading."

—Literacy with Skids and Mudflap.

"Beginning. Middle. End. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it."

—Simmons demands more coherent exposition from Jetfire.

"One man, alone..."
"Stop saying that!"
"...Betrayed by the country he loves."
"Oh, my goodness, I'm in the car okay, you're not alone!"

—Simmons being, well, himself, much to Leo Spitz's distress.

"Now I claim your sun!"

—The Fallen does the standard "I claim victory before I have actually won" bit.

"You picked the wrong planet! Give me your face!"

—Optimus Prime warns The Fallen of his violent fetish.

"Not to call you a coward, master, but, sometimes, cowards do survive."

—Starscream pitches his usual battle plan to an unusually receptive Megatron.

"Our races united by a history long forgotten and a future we shall face together. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message so that our pasts will always be remembered. For in those memories, we live on."

—Optimus Prime's closing narration.

Continuity notes

• With the Allspark's destruction at the end of Transformers, the Autobots had accepted Earth as their new home. The Allspark fragment that is stolen from Diego Garcia and used to revive Megatron was the same fragment that Optimus took out of Megatron’s exposed spark chamber.
• During the past two years, the Autobots have formed an alliance with Earth's militaries. While Bumblebee is seen living with Sam per his request, Optimus, Ratchet, and Ironhide have joined up with NEST full-time. Optimus' message at the end of the film requesting the Autobots to join them on Earth has been answered by Sideswipe, Arcee, the Twins, and Jolt.
• Mikaela's reason for not being able to move near Sam's college is because she has to help her fresh out-of-prison father reintegrate back into society. In the first film, Sam made a request to get her father released.
• Starscream is shown working for The Fallen when first introduced in the film, and Megatron accuses him of abandoning him to die in Mission City, acknowledging the fan theories that Starscream managed to sneak back into the F-22 Raptor fleet that fired on Megatron.
• Scorponok makes a quick cameo returning after retreating following his defeat at the hands of Lennox and Epps's squad midway through the previous film, only to be quickly killed by Jetfire.

Errors

Filming / editing / technical errors

Goddamn paparazzi get everywhere!

• In the opening scene of the movie, when the Fallen lands to inspect the tribe of humans, he lifts up his right foot to stomp on them. However, when the scene switched to an overhead view, it is suddenly his left foot that stomps.

• When the Twins crash during their pursuit of Sideways, the pairs' voices are switched, with Tom Kenny's voice coming from Mudflap as he announces he is okay, and Reno Wilson delivering the admonishments as Skids punches him.

• During the Shanghai battle, when the ramp on the NEST C-17 transport is lowering to reveal Optimus Prime in the cargo bay, a filming crew (including director Michael Bay) can be seen inside the plane on the left side of screen.

• The vehicle modes the Twins scan already have personalized license plates on them. Furthermore, despite sporting a "SKIDS" license plate in vehicle mode most of the time, Skids sports a license plate stating his vehicle model, "BEAT", in an establishing shot during the scene in New York City. Since this would also make the Twins' fighting over which car they get pointless, as they have already been assigned a specific car determined by the plate, the most likely explanation is that either the wrong prop vehicles were used by accident, or the filming crew didn't properly keep track of which license plates were used in which scene (i.e. the cars they scanned were supposed to have just their vehicle models on their license plates, and the cars used as the Twins' alternate modes were supposed to have their names on their license plates).

• Despite the minor cosmetic changes to his Camaro vehicle mode (i.e. new car prop) and the corresponding changes to his robot mode (i.e. modified CG model), Bumblebee still sports the same license plates as in the previous film. That is, his license plate is still inconsistent between both modes, alternating between "900 STRA" in vehicle mode and "4NZZ454" in robot mode.

• Similarly, despite still sporting his license plate from the previous movie, "4PCI382", on his robot mode chest, Ironhide no longer has a license plate in vehicle mode.

• When Sam jumps from the second story of his house to escape the kitchen robots, a stuntperson who does not look much like Shia LaBeouf performs the stunt.

Cybertronian tattoo removal is expensive.

• Optimus Prime is missing one of Ben Procter's Cybertronian "tribal tattoo" characters on his cheek during the scene in the hangar.

• During the scene in which Alice meets Sam at the party, Sam gets a drink and the glass is full, then the camera angle changes and the glass is half full/empty, then the angle changes again and the glass is full again.

• Bumblebee picks up Sam at the frat party in the evening. He then takes him to a graveyard where it's dawn. In real life, the graveyard is located in Philadelphia, while the frat party is set a hundred miles north, in Princeton. Still, even in New Jersey traffic, the trip wouldn't take all night.

• During Sam's campus freak-out, when he drops his notes on the steps, a blonde woman in a suit can be seen coming down the steps to his left, nearly reaching him. However, when the camera angle shifts, the woman is suddenly at the top of the stairs again.

• As Alice attacks Sam, part of the window behind them is taken up by a fan. When Mikaela throws the tool box, it smashes through a glass pane where the fan had been moments before, with the fan itself now resting against the wall under the Bad Boys II poster.

• When the Autobots are driving to Sam's college shortly before the Decepticons attack him, Arcee is completely absent from the group, while previously-unseen Jolt shows up in one shot in front of the others, then when the camera angle changes, he disappears.

Wait, were you here a moment ago?

• 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 four Constructicons are now a yellow bulldozer (in place of the red one), a concrete mixer, a green dump truck and a yellow Volvo excavator (in place of the yellow front-end loader). Additionally, the space between the containers where the Constructicons are parked has expanded considerably: During the flyover shot, the concrete mixer barely fit in, with the truck cab positioned behind the bulldozer; but in the subsequent shot, there is a considerable gap between the front of the concrete mixer's truck cab and the bulldozer that's almost wide enough to fit a second concrete mixer in!

• During the North Atlantic sequence, on the submarine USS Topeka's sonar, there are "five contacts" diving down to Megatron's body's location, and "six contacts" coming up after his resurrection. Although this is dramatic, since one Constructicon was killed to repair Megatron, shouldn't there be only five contacts going up as well? Keep in mind, Scalpel is too small to register on sonar, but Ravage is just large enough.

• When the USS Theodore Roosevelt is sunk by Decepticon transition forms, its hull number of 71 can be seen on the bridge island. However, when it sinks, a hull number of 74 can clearly be seen on the bow of the landing deck. CVN-74 belongs to the USS John C. Stennis, a carrier that shows up later in the film and was also the carrier used for filming.

• Tasers do not cause those tased to go into convulsions. Even if they get tased in the nuts.

• There is a spiderweb in a tomb that explosively decompressed after being opened to the air for the first time in millions of years.

• While the NEST team and Director Galloway are on the C-17 headed to Egypt, Prime's body appears and disappears from shot to shot.

• When an aide to Morshower shows him a map indicating that Lennox's NEST team have airdropped in Egypt, the location marked is actually on the eastern side of the Red Sea, in Jordan. Oops.

• In the scene where Bumblebee, Skids and Mudflap are attacked by Starscream, Bumblebee's prop car door can be seen flailing open when Starscream fires a missile from the ground.

• In the quarry when Devastator forms, the Twins go from grimy and dust covered to showroom floor clean within two shots.

• When Sam and Mikaela are running at the same moment Megatron spots them, you can see Sam is holding Mikaela's arm, but his jacket is nowhere to be seen. In the next shot, he has his jacket on his arm.

• Once again, the MQ-9 Reaper drone is referred to as the more well-known MQ-1 Predator. The drone is powered by a propeller, which can be seen when the (real) drone takes off. However, due to the usage of footage from the 2007 Transformers movie, when the (CGI) drone approaches the battlefield, the propeller is absent, replaced by a jet engine (which would be consistent with a third related drone, the Avenger) . Also unfortunate is the fact the real drone with the propeller is white, while the CGI drone is black. Oy.

• Ravage tears off Bumblebee's back kibble... but in the next shot it's back.

• As the humans and Autobots run from the bombs being dropped on the Decepticons, a damaged Ironhide ejects the cannon on his left arm. In later shots, the cannon is back on his arm.

• Megatron's head clips through his torso and shoulder several times after Optimus defeats him in Egypt.

• In the scene where Sam tells Mikaela that she said that she loves him first, very briefly Mikaela is shown to be wearing her vest and white jacket that she lost earlier in the movie and which she wasn't wearing at this point.

Story / continuity errors

• Most of the NEST and American soldiers are seen using small-calibre arms such as assault rifles, machine guns, and sniper rifles against the Decepticons, despite the previous film establishing very clearly that such weapons were useless against Cybertronians, and that "high-heat" sabot rounds were the only human weapons capable of penetrating Decepticon armour. Even if they somehow figured out how to make small calibre ammunition achieve the "high heat" required to damage Decepticon armour, it is extremely unlikely that such low-powered weapons would do any meaningful damage that warrants such widespread usage. After all, in real life, you can't kill a tank with a machine gun. Well, unless you're in G.I. Joe... Dark of the Moon offers up the explanation that small-arms fire hitting Decepticon armor "scrambles their circuits" and disorients them.

• The notion that a big metal box (containing a complex electronic mechanism shouting to be released) would ever make it through post-9/11 airport luggage screening is a bit on the implausible side. The novelization of the film attributes this to Mikaela's Epic Hotness distracting the guard into just letting her through; she also claims that the box contains expensive mechanic's tools which might look strange in an x-ray. Neither explanation is present in the film itself, however.

• When Alice attacks Sam and his friends, the box Wheelie is imprisoned within is taken along, and the box is not seen when Mikaela and Leo escape from the foundry in Bumblebee. The box should still be inside the wreckage of the car Mikaela hotwired at the college, but Wheelie nonetheless continues to appear in the film, despite there being no indication that anyone returned to the foundry after the battle.

• A shard of the Allspark can revive Megatron, even though it killed him before.

• While this may be a minor nitpick, why did the Constructicons have to kill one of their own to repair Megatron when the Decepticon corpses from the last film were also dumped in the Laurentian Abyss? Couldn't they have still had some useful parts left? After all, the film later establishes that corpse parts are still useful for upgrades. Is this the films way of telling us these guys are evil? Also, even though Scrapmetal had been an unwilling donor for parts, Megatron's color scheme and parts do not reflect this at all, even Megatron's tank treads are of Cybertronian design, rather than what would have been present on Scrapmetal's alternate form. Must be something along the lines of scanning and replicating.

• Given that the Autobots are part of NEST, and are dependent on the US Air Force for transportation around the world, it is not clear why Major Lennox had to be alerted to the fact that the Autobots were on the east coast of the United States. Do the Autobots normally go on unexplained joyrides?
  • The next film suggests that it's not entirely uncommon for the Autobots to sneak out like "teenage kids" to go do their own thing.

• Where does Mikaela get the padding and gauze to bandage up Sam's hand? They were in the middle of a desert!

• When Jetfire teleports to Egypt, Wheelie is seen landing by him, but disappears until the group reaches the border guards. After they arrive at the pyramids, Wheelie is seen rolling in with the quartet of humans, but is never seen again.

• While running to get to Optimus' corpse, Sam meets a lot of Autobots: Bumblebee, Ironhide, the Arcee sisters... so why doesn't he simply get in one of them and drive all the way to Lennox's team instead of running?

• There's no rational reason for Simmons to climb the pyramid after Devastator. It looks like he's enabling the Navy ship to "fire on his position", which is useful when the firer can't see the target. However, as we find out just before the railgun is fired, the ship can see the pyramid. (And railguns are line-of-sight weapons, anyway.) So, Simmons didn't need to climb; he could have stayed someplace safe, called the ship, and told them, "Take a look at the pyramid, and shoot the giant robot tearing it up." It's also hard to believe he wasn't crushed by the flood of pyramid stones, which at one point are raining down on all four sides of the structure.

Geographic discontinuities

• The Shanghai "industrial district" is... interesting, to say the least. There's a company sign that translates as "Empire Import and Export" (which would be the Chinese equivalent of a US company named "Soviet Import and Export") right next to a huge ironworks, dozens of people not even remotely dressed like workers are being evacuated... and at least Demolishor thought that a giant mining excavator wouldn't be terribly out of place there.

• The aerial view of Princeton University is immediately followed by a ground shot of the dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania.

"The closest one's in Washington." Washington... New Jersey?

• After Lennox is alerted to the Autobot operation on the US east coast, he orders NEST to move out. By the time Optimus Prime is killed in battle with Megatron, it appears Lennox's transport planes are already over the United States, and by the end of the day, the NEST troops are at a US air base. Given the great distance between Diego Garcia and the United States, the short time it took them to arrive is implausible.

• Grindor drops the car with Sam, Mikaela and Leo inside into a factory just outside a huge city. Yet when Optimus Prime and Bumblebee rescue them and flee, they almost immediately reach a huge forest that was nowhere to be seen in the aerial shot of the factory.

• In the basement of Simmons' deli, in New York City, Wheelie projects laser dots onto a map of the United States to indicate where the Seekers are located. One dot hovers over Syracuse, New York. Another hovers over Trenton, New Jersey. Yet Simmons inexplicably says the closest one is in Washington.
  • There is no dot over Washington.

The foreshortening is amazing.

• When Jetfire is activated at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (actually the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian) in Washington, he leaves the exhibition center and exits into the desert location of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (aka "the Boneyard"), which is in Tucson, Arizona. When Jetfire breaks out of the building, we can see a composited image of the Boneyard's rows of planes, so it's arguable that in this universe, the middle of Washington DC happens to be a desert full of old planes, and no buildings and... you get the point. Michael Bay actually admits this to be a deliberate choice in his audio commentary for the movie, and suggests that "most people in Taiwan" would probably never notice the error.

• The movie gives the impression that Giza in Egypt and Petra in Jordan are in close proximity to each other — within eyeshot, even. In reality, the two locations are about 416 kilometres (258 miles) apart. What makes this even more problematic is the fact that Egypt and Jordan don't share a common border — the country of Israel is in-between them, whose existence isn't even mentioned in the movie. At one point, Simmons displays a map of the Gulf of Aqaba (aka "the Dagger's Tip") - on which Egypt and Jordan are labeled in English, but Israel is not.

• Optimus, Megatron, Starscream and The Fallen take their fight from the Pyramids of Giza to the Temple of Luxor, which are more than 300 miles away.

• Furthermore, the movie gives the impression that the Pyramids of Giza are located near the coast — the soldiers and tanks deployed from hovercraft arrive at the battle site almost immediately. In reality, the closest sea shore, the tip of the Red Sea, is still over 70 miles away from the Pyramids. Worse, when the rail gun is fired, a monitor screen on board the U.S.S. Kidd shows footage of the pyramids with the ocean in the foreground, making it appear like they're no more than a mile or two away from the shore. Worse still, this is immediately followed by a shot of the pyramids that shows nothing but desert in the direction the rail gun shot is coming from.

Transformers references

In addition to carryovers from the previous film, various concepts and characters are derived from previous iterations of Transformers:

• The whole concept of "Transformers disguised as a human" used for Alice is inspired by the Pretenders. Roberto Orci even used the term "Pretender" during an interview before the movie's release.^[3] However, a Transformer with an "organic" alt-mode instead of an external shell is a concept more reminiscent of the Beast Era.
• The Generation 1 iteration of Jetfire is frequently portrayed as switching from Decepticon to Autobot (he's usually a young and technologically up-to-the-minute 'bot, however.)
• Soundwave and his ejectible minion Ravage both have Generation 1 counterparts. Movie Soundwave even has the same voice actor as 1984 cartoon Soundwave, using the same voice, though without the synthetic vocal processing that made the cartoon voice so distinctive.
• Sideswipe bears little physical resemblance to his Generation 1 namesake, but is a vaguely similar character archetype.
• Generation 1 Arcee was the first female Transformer with a starring role, and was likewise a pink-colored girlbot. The idea of Arcee the pink girlbot as a motorcycle dates back to Energon.
• Devastator, the combined form of the Constructicons, was the first combiner robot in Generation 1 (unless you count Reflector).
• The characters are new, but the names "Sideways", "Demolishor", "Mudflap", "Skids", "Jolt", "Rampage" and "Wheelie" are not. Likewise for the concept of "Seekers".
• Optimus Prime dying and coming back to life has been done times beyond counting.
• Prime combining with another 'bot to form a Super Mode which increases his power (and often gives him flight capabilities) is a trope that has occurred in many recent Transformers series (Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, Cybertron.) In Armada, a different Jetfire was his most frequent combination partner. This is the first time the other 'bot had to die for it to happen, though.
• The Fallen is based on a comic book character that made his debut in the 2004 miniseries The War Within: The Dark Ages. In fact, according to Hasbro, he is the exact same iteration of the character! (It's needlessly complicated.)
• The Matrix of Leadership is one of the franchise's oldest MacGuffins.
• Energon (mentioned though never seen) is the Transformers' power source in numerous incarnations, beginning with the original cartoon.
• The concept of a protoform as the first stage of a Transformer is a reference to the same concept introduced on the Beast Wars cartoon.
• Though it is almost certainly not an actual reference (it's a pretty generic and predictable sci-fi trope), the Star Harvester is quite similar in function to the Solar Needle from the Generation 1 episode "Changing Gears", sucking energy from the Sun to produce energon. Both devices would have destroyed the Sun if allowed to fulfill their function.
• The same is true for Sam having Cybertronian knowledge pumped directly into his brain via a sacred Transformer talisman, which is reminiscent of Buster Witwicky's similar situation in the Marvel G1 comics.
• In the factory battle, Optimus Prime performs a overhead leap while firing at Megatron that is strongly reminiscent of his G1 counterpart's iconic leap into battle from The Transformers: The Movie.
• A newspaper is sucked into Devastator that headlines a photograph and accompanying article about a mysterious appearance by Shockwave.
• When Mudflap and Skids first appear in their ice cream truck disguise, they play the Transformers theme song in a very "ice-creamish" way.
• Jetfire isn't the only Transformer to call Earth 'Dirt Planet'.

Other editions

The theater-specific lighting variant.

• A slightly longer edit was shown in IMAX theaters, which featured some brief additional scenes filmed with special IMAX cameras.^[4] An exclusive deal with Paramount resulted in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince not being shown in IMAX theaters until two weeks after the movie's regular theatrical launch.^[5]
• A rumor claims that there exists a censored version of Revenge of the Fallen in which the rude " suck my popsicle!" decal on the side of Skids and Mudflap's ice cream truck alternate mode is edited to remove the words "suck my", resulting in the somewhat nonsensical version "           popsicle!" This version was supposedly shown in some theaters in several countries, even though other theaters in the those very same markets apparently showed the "uncensored" version.^[6] In reality, the most likely explanation for this is much more mundane: Whereas the Decepticon insignia and the word "popsicle" are both rendered in white, resulting in a high color contrast with the dark background of the decal, the words "suck my" are instead kept in dark red. Depending on the specific brightness and color contrast settings of a particular theater, this, combined with the overall darkness of the scene (which was shot "day for night"), could easily lead to those two words becoming pretty much "invisible" by pure coincidence, with no actual intention of "censorship" behind it.

Prequel material

Titan movie comics

While the Decepticons were disgusted with the pro-Autobot propaganda of Bay's first documentary #13's Star Screams, they were quite optimistic about the second film. Starscream took a strong interest in it, going to the trouble of personally convincing Soundwave to be in the film 15's Star Screams.

The Decepticons promised this new documentary would show a glorious Decepticon victory #10's Star Screams—whether it was in the script or not. #18's Star Screams

Shockingly, even they were under a non-disclosure agreement regarding the script; Starscream fearfully referred to a greater power keeping him quiet. #22's Star Screams Talking about it could even undermine the Decepticon war effort! #23's Star Screams

In the same week the film came out, the Decepticons suddenly became unhappy with it and the detente period ended. Bay, Kurtzman, and Orci are once again marked for extermination for their propaganda films. #1's Law and Disorder

Novels

• Transformers: The Veiled Threat

A prequel novel in the same vein as Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday chronicling the first missions of NEST.

IDW Transformers movie comics

• Transformers: Destiny

A prequel series consisting of two four-issue minisseries:

• • Transformers: Alliance

A four-issue limited miniseries picking up after the events of The Reign of Starscream and tying into The Veiled Threat novel, leading up to Revenge of the Fallen itself.

• • Transformers: Defiance

A four-issue limited miniseries set on Cybertron in the past, setting the stage for Revenge of the Fallen.

• Transformers: Tales of the Fallen

A series of spotlights for six Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen characters, five stories are set before the events of the movie, while one in particular is set after the film itself.

Titan Comics Revenge of the Fallen movie comics

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

A monthly title by Titan in the UK (a rebranding of their existing comic).

The sinister, unseen figure of the Fallen is secretly gathering a Decepticon army on Cybertron. Skids and Mudflap, slacking off there at the time, accidentally discover this and flee to Earth to warn the other Autobots. Training Day An attempt to kill them fails Dogfight!, but due to their rep of telling tall tales, no one believes them. It doesn't help when they accidentally help Grindor escape capture. Learning Curve The Fallen's agent Soundwave decides to use this, and first frames the twins as turncoats Reversal of Fortune, then has them freed by their 'Decepticon allies' so they'll be hunted down.

After a few days of this, the twins began to regret ever getting involved, and Soundwave offered them sanctuary in the Decepticon army and the embrace of the Fallen: an offer they were eager to accept... Outlaw Blues

Adaptations

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The film novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation

IDW Publishing's comic adaptation.

Children's adaptations

• Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel

The film novelization for kids.

• The Last Prime

The film novelization for younger kids.

Sequels

Two sequels to the first Transformers movie were greenlit in the wake of its success, with Revenge being the first. Although Michael Bay had previously stated that he might need a break from giant space robots before tackling a third film, he confirmed a July 1, 2011 release date on his blog.^[7]

Main articles: Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film), Transformers: Age of Extinction (film), Transformers: The Last Knight (film), and Bumblebee (film)

• Transformers: Cyber Missions

A sequel for the film produced by TG Studios as a thirteen-episode CGI webcartoon.

• Nefarious

A six-issue comic sequel published by IDW in a similar vein as The Reign of Starscream which was lead into by Tales of the Fallen issue 5.

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Unite for the Universe

A five-part Japanese manga sequel to Revenge of the Fallen.

Soundtrack

Main article: Revenge of the Fallen: The Album

Score

Main article: Revenge of the Fallen: The Score

Home video releases

Main article: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)/home video

Revenge of the Fallen was released by Paramount Pictures on DVD (as both a 2-disc special edition and a regular single disc version) and Blu-ray on October 20th in the United States,^[8] and November 30th in the UK.

Theatrical posters

Reception

Revenge of the Fallen had its world premiere on June 8th, 2009, in Tokyo, Japan. Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Isabel Lucas and Ramon Rodriguez attended.^[9] Other countries such as South Korea,^[10] the United Kingdom and Germany followed over the course of the next few days. The United States premiere was held on June 22nd, 2009, in Westwood, California, during the Los Angeles Film Festival for the second time.

Judge me by my size, do you?

In the week leading up to the United States release, while the film had been released in Japan and the United Kingdom, Revenge of the Fallen was ranking 38% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.com. As American reviews were added into the ranking on June 24, the movie's freshness slipped slowly to 22%. Today, the film's freshness rating sits at 20%, while its audience score is at 57%. The movie was primarily criticized for its crude portrayal of women, black people, and little people, but it was beaten for its long-winded action scenes, unfunny adult humor, dialogue, acting from the film's human cast, as well as its confusing plot. The film's long runtime proved to be a widespread issue among professional critics. These factors helped to dethrone Pearl Harbor (generally considered to be Michael Bay's worst movie prior to his involvement with the Transformers franchise), and gave the live-action Transformers films their terrible reputation among film critics. However, some of the film's more positive reviews noted that the film had impressive CGI and special effects.

RottenTomatoes.com's consensus was that "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch." Roger Ebert, who had given the first Transformers film three stars,^[11] gave Revenge one star, and remarked that "if you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together." ^[12] Todd Gilchrist of Cinematical.com said Michael Bay "has exceeded even the possibilities of sequel-driven 'moreness,' combining his own muscular, high-gloss sensibility with the conventions of blockbusters past, present, and probably future to create a monolithic action masterpiece that feels destined to be the biggest movie of all time." ^[13] Michael Phillips from the Chicago Tribune said "the first, comparatively lucid Transformers was a headache, but I sort of enjoyed it....Revenge of the Fallen is more like listening to rocks in a clothes dryer for 2½ hours." ^[14] Roger Ebert went back for more in a second article, declaring not only that Revenge of the Fallen was awful, but that it'd ruined action films FOREVER.^[15] In the face of many harsh responses to his own critique, Mr. Ebert went back a third time, not just deconstructing the film but also declaring that fans who claimed to perceive it as "great" were simply wrong.^[16]

Despite the overwhelmingly negative reviews, Revenge of the Fallen poised itself quickly as a blockbuster maelstrom. It grossed $16 million in its opening midnight showings alone, an all-time record for Wednesday openings and a second-best for openings on any day of the week behind The Dark Knight. After the full Wednesday was over, Revenge of the Fallen had grossed $55 million in domestic ticket sales, surpassing the previous Wednesday release record, held by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by over $10 million.^[17] By the end of the first five days, Revenge of the Fallen had taken an estimated $201.2 million in the United States, just shy of The Dark Knight's record $203.8 million 5-day US total. In the same period, international markets took in $186.1 million, bringing the 5-day worldwide total to $387.3 million.^[18]

Paramount's U.S. exit polling revealed several intriguing facts: While the 2007 Transformers movie viewership skewed 60-40% toward men over women, the split for the new film was more even at 54% male, 46% female. More than 90% of those surveyed stated that Revenge of the Fallen was as good as or better than the first Transformers movie. Surprisingly, about 67% said the film was "excellent", an even better score than for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's critically acclaimed 2009 Star Trek movie.^[19]

After two weeks in most markets, Revenge continued to defy critics and dominate the U.S. box office, narrowly defeating Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on the Fourth of July weekend, finishing with upwards of $300 million in the U.S. and a similar figure in international markets.^[20] Ultimately, Revenge grossed more than $836 million worldwide (versus $708 million for Transformers), including $402 million from US box offices alone (versus $319 million for the first movie).^[21]

On October 20, Revenge sold 2 million copies of its DVD/Blu-Ray release in the first 24 hours.^[22]

On April 3, 2010, Shia LaBeouf stated that he was confused about many things in Revenge of the Fallen and in fact, hated the movie. However, he noted that one of the major problems the film faced was working during the writer's strike without a script, and that he had faith that the third film would be an improvement.^[23]

In a June 11, 2010 article about the third Transformers film, Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura now said they'd taken onboard some of the criticism, and cited the writer's strike and the rushed production as a problem; Bonaventura said "we tried to do too many things in the second movie, which didn't give enough time in any one of them". Bay also said he was getting rid of the "dorky comedy", like the Twins, for the third film, and called the Fallen "kind of a (expletive) character".^[24] And later, in the April 2011 dated issue of Empire, Bay would again blame the strike and also cite the inclusion of "mystical" plots as a flaw in the film.^[25]

As of 2024 (15 years after its release), Revenge of the Fallen is considered by the Transformers fanbase to be one of the weakest works in the franchise, on par with Energon and Combiner Wars, for many of the same reasons as professional critics; most of the complaints revolve around the story, characters and overall filmmaking, with the creative liberties and deviations from past Transformers incarnations (themselves more divisive than universally hated) seen as the icing on the turd cake rather than a core criticism. Even fans of the other Michael Bay-helmed movies have been known to use ROTF as a scapegoat for why the movies have so many flaws and/or why critics hate (the most of) the entire series as a whole so much.

Awards and recognition

On February 1, 2009, it was announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was nominated for seven Golden Raspberry Awards.^[26] It was awarded three of them, for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.^[27] This presumably represents an improvement from the 2007 film, which received only one nomination (Jon Voight in the Supporting Actor category) and no wins.

On February 2, 2009, it was announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Mixing.^[28] On March 7, it lost to The Hurt Locker.

Controversies

Who's scruffy-looking?

• A huge flap revolved around the characters of the "Twins", Skids and Mudflap. Many critics and viewers believed them to be racist stereotypes of poorly educated black American teenagers. Much evidence points to the pair actually being stereotypes of poorly educated white American teenagers, trying their best to sound like hardcore black urban gangsters... though it's still a racist stereotype of dubious taste. Director Michael Bay, when confronted with these accusations, claimed that the personalities of the two characters had been primarily created in the recording studio by voice actors Tom Kenny and Reno Wilson. Wilson, who is African-American himself, claimed to have been surprised the characters were taken as stereotypes and explained they were described when he first took the role as "wannabe gangster types" whose understanding of human culture was filtered through the internet, comparing them to "posers" like Kevin Federline.^[29] Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci confirmed that this portrayal of the characters hadn't been in the script, and admitted that they could understand the controversy.^[30]

• At least one reviewer claimed to find a repellent "anti-Arab subtext" to the movie's climactic scenes, which involved the damage or destruction of various Middle Eastern landmarks.^[31]

• Along the same lines, Chinese viewers reportedly criticized the depiction of Shanghai in the opening scene of the movie. Apparently, depicting an industrial area as "very shabby" is an "insult" to an entire country, as is the destruction of parts of the city during a battle between alien robots.^[32] Regardless, Revenge topped the box office in China, dethroning 1997's Titanic as the most successful movie of all times there.^[33]

• Both professional critics and amateur bloggers noted that the film presents the Obama administration as endangering Earth by being wussy, bureacratic, and ignoring the Brave Soldiers.^{[34][35][36][37]} Some right-wing bloggers and critics were quite happy about this. As Bay had added Obama's name and image to the film as a tribute to the President after the two of them met and had a mutually-complimentary conversation,^[38] and the writers are known Democrats,^[39] the implications are probably unintentional and meant to be a genre trope rather than a deliberate dig.

• The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a lobbyist group that already complained about the first film, is currently trying to lobby the Federal Communications Commission into tightening regulations for marketing movies rated "PG-13" and associated merchandise to children. The basic reasoning behind their complaints is that Revenge contains "intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language" and "would have been rated R fifteen years ago", and yet Hasbro's associated toys are advertised during TV programs aimed at children.^[40] Hasbro themselves appear to be still undecided about their official position regarding the more "mature" tone of the movies and its ramifications for the brand's public image, having left several questions to this effect unanswered.^[41][42]

Technical details

Length: 149 minutes Audio: Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS
Content Rating:

Production staff

• Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman recruited Ehren Kruger to help them write the screenplay. Michael Bay and producers Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura also returned.^[44]

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Development details

Cast and crew signing on

On May 30, 2007, a month before the official release of Transformers, DreamWorks announced that two sequels were already being planned.^[45] Megan Fox had already been confirmed for the first of those sequels twelve days earlier,^[46] while Shia LaBeouf had already confirmed his participation in an—at that time still theoretical—sequel in November 2006.^[47] Director Michael Bay, meanwhile, only once briefly questioned his involvement in a sequel in August 2007, when Paramount Pictures announced that Transformers would be released on HD DVD, but not on Blu-ray Disc.^[48] Bay quickly changed his mind, however, and Paramount would later release the first movie on Blu-ray anyway, after the HD DVD had been abandoned.

In September 2007, Paramount officially announced the first sequel for June 2009.^[49] Bay was given a budget of $200 million, and ultimately managed to come in $4 million below that.^[50]

The Transformers screenwriters, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, initially hesitated writing the sequel, but ultimately had a change of mind.^[51] In October 2007, Ehren Kruger was confirmed as a third writer, who, according to Kurtzman, brought in a "fresh perspective",^[52] and who reportedly impressed both director Michael Bay and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner with his knowledge of Transformers mythology.^[53]

In April 2009, Roberto Orci confirmed that cartoon voice actor Frank Welker would voice Soundwave.^[54] Welker had previously been considered as Megatron's voice actor in the first movie, but ultimately Michael Bay had given that part to Hugo Weaving instead. Both Bay and the writers were also hoping that Leonard Nimoy could voice a character in the movie.^[51] Even though Nimoy openly asked Bay to simply give him a call,^[55] it ultimately never worked out: after watching his guest appearance as Asteroth on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Bay selected Tony Todd - whom he worked with on The Rock - for the voice of The Fallen instead.^[56]

Writing and production

For the movie, Orci and Kurtzman searched the various Transformers comics and cartoons for "the most elemental bad guy", and eventually found one in The Fallen.^[51]

In addition to that, they wanted to include many things in the sequel that hadn't made it into the first movie, including the Decepticon Soundwave. Likewise, the Matrix of Leadership had initially been intended to be used in the first movie, but for fear of confusion with the Matrix movies, the cube had been renamed into the AllSpark. In return, the Matrix in Revenge of the Fallen bears more resemblance to the Generation 1 Matrix.

In late 2007, during pre-production for the then-untitled Transformers sequel, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, but according to all parties involved, this didn't slow down preparations of the movie much in the long run. Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci turned in their first outline of the script the night before the strike officially began. During the strike, director Michael Bay used the script as a basis for preparing the movie. After the strike had ended, Kurtzman, Orci and Ehren Kruger continued their work on the script, based on Bay's changes.^[52] One consequence of this development was that Michael Bay and Hasbro had selected some of the new Transformers characters that were to appear in the movie during the strike, because of the long production run of the toys, while they had legally not been allowed to consult with the screenwriters.^[51] The "Twins", Skids and Mudflap, are Bay's creation.^[29]

In early June 2008, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Hasbro officially confirmed the movie's title to be Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.^[57] A few weeks later, Roberto Orci confirmed that there would be no "2" in the title.^[58]

Principal shooting began in June 2008 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.^[59] Other shooting sites were Philadelphia, the campus of Princeton University, Long Beach, the Holloman Air Force Base and the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Some scenes were also shot in other countries, at the Pyramids of Giza and in Luxor, Egypt, in Jordan and in Paris.

According to director Michael Bay, Revenge is the first movie in about 30 years to be given permission to shoot at the Pyramids of Giza, and the first movie ever to film on top of Petra.^[60] He obtained permission to film in Egypt by contacting Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's council of antiquities, who turned out to be a fan of the 2007 Transformers movie.^[61]

During the time of shooting, actor Shia LaBeouf suffered a severe injury of his left hand in a car accident. Ultimately, however, filming was only briefly halted, and his injury worked into the film, thereby not adversely affecting the filming schedule.^[62] For the movie, director Michael Bay earned himself an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the "biggest explosion on film with actors present".^[63]

Sponsors and partners

Hasbro

Hasbro once again acted both as a licensor and actively participated in the development of the movie. Together with the first Transformers movie, the G.I. Joe movie Rise of the Cobra and several other planned movie projects such as Monopoly, Stretch Armstrong and Battleships, Revenge of the Fallen marks the beginning of a new company policy for Hasbro, believing that the new "the movie of the toy" strategy will be more lucrative than the old "the toy of the movie" concept, which involves hefty licensing fees.^[64] Still, director Michael Bay receives an 8% cut of all toy sales from the Transformers movies.^[65] During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, when nobody was legally allowed to consult with the screenwriters, Hasbro and Bay selected several of the new Transformers characters that were to appear in the movie.^[51]

US military

The United States military also supported the movie again, providing vehicles, shooting locations and military personnel that appear as extras in the movie.^[66] Due to scheduling coincidences, Revenge of the Fallen was given a larger support by the United States Department of Defense than G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, which was produced at the same time.^[67] Initially, Bay had intended to include German Bundeswehr soldiers in the movie (presumably as members of NEST or on board the AWACS plane), but even though the soldiers were eager to participate, the German government denied the request.^[68]

General Motors and other car manufacturers

American car manufacturer General Motors once again provided vehicles that were used by the Autobots as their alternate modes. Returning from the first movie were the GMC Topkick (Ironhide), the Hummer H2 (Ratchet) and the new Chevrolet Camaro (Bumblebee), the latter this time as a slightly updated Z/28 model as compared to the first movie's concept car model. Newcomers for Revenge of the Fallen are all from the Chevrolet brand, namely the Chevrolet Beat (Skids), the Chevrolet Trax (Mudflap), a new Chevrolet Corvette Stingray concept car (Sideswipe) and, as a last minute addition, the new Chevrolet Volt electric car (Jolt).

In total, General Motors provided 67 vehicles, 52 of them being prototypes not intended for sale.^[69] As a consequence of the 2007-onwards financial crisis, however, General Motors reduced their financial support for Revenge in April 2009.^[70]

Director Michael Bay estimates that, without the support of General Motors and the military, production of the movie would have cost $10 million more than the $195 million ultimately spent.^[65] Coinciding with the release of Revenge of the Fallen, General Motors reported that sales of the new Chevrolet Camaro were so strong that orders were outrunning the supply, even though the car was being sold above MSRP in many places. A direct connection to the movie, however, could not be proven.^[71]

As the only car manufacturer besides General Motors, Audi was able to place its R8 in the movie, as the Decepticon Sideways's alternate mode. The cooperation was arranged by Propaganda Global Entertainment Marketing.^[72]

Product placement

As in the first movie, numerous companies signed a deal with the filmmakers which allowed for their product being featured in prominent places in the movie. A Mountain Dew vending machine can be seen in Leo's room, computer screens feature visible Cisco logos, Sam and Mikaela intend to communicate via iChat, a huge HSBC logo is seen at Times Square in New York City, a Budweiser bottle is prominently featured in one of the Paris scenes, CNN is everyone's preferred news channel, and a giant IMAX logo is seen inside the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In return, Mars heavily advertised Revenge of the Fallen with their chocolate candy brand M&M's.

Changes before, during and after production

• The three Autobot motorcycles were at one point meant to combine into a larger robot, but this was ultimately abandoned for unknown reasons. Concept artwork for this combined mode has surfaced, and this feature was mentioned in the novelization and appears to remain in the toys.

• According to comic book writer Simon Furman, the Dinobots had been in an early draft of the movie's plot, but were dropped from the cast very early in development.^[73]

• Due to licensing issues with Audi and the writers' strike, Sideways' role was dramatically altered and he was nearly taken out of the script entirely. Originally, Sideways was going to escape the first wave of his Autobot pursuers by using Demolishor as a distraction. After Demolishor's death, Sideways would have been cornered and engaged by Sideswipe in robot mode. At this point, it would have been Sideways, not Demolishor, who would have dropped the Fallen's name when he threatened Sideswipe during the fight. Ultimately, the scene was never finished. Audi backed out of the licensing agreement and the scene was rewritten to focus on Demolishor. Audi later decided that they DID want their product featured, so a pre-visualization animation of Sideswipe bisecting a Lamborghini (included in the movie DVD's and Blu-ray Disc's bonus material) was reworked to feature an Audi R8 being sliced in half instead. Interestingly, some toys still referenced the deleted fight. Most of Sideways' toys feature a chainsaw weapon that he did not have in the film, and Human Alliance Sideswipe's box art depicts a diorama scene of Sideways attacking him in robot mode.

• Springer, an Autobot who transforms into a V-22 Osprey, was to be a character in the movie, but was dropped from the cast during production.^[74] However, he was dropped so late during production that Hasbro still released Legends and Robot Heroes versions of the character based on the abandoned movie design–in the first waves of their respective assortments, no less.

• Likewise, the Deluxe Class Breakaway and Scout Class Depthcharge and Ransack toys are based on designs Ben Procter had originally created for the movie. Breakaway had the early working name "Firestorm", while Ransack was originally conceived as a Ford Model T.^[74]

• Soundwave was originally intended to come to Earth and scan a black Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck as his new alternate mode. The Deluxe Class Soundwave toy still retains some elements of this abandoned concept in robot mode, particularly a Cybertronian version of the Chevy grill and small headlights on the lower torso.

• Several plot points about the Dynasty of Primes were dropped from the final version of the film, but feature prominently in the adaptations. In the original version, the Dynasty was founded by Thirteen Primes, eleven of whom were killed by The Fallen, with the sole survivor sealing the Matrix in the Tomb of the Primes by himself. The Fallen returned to Cybertron and killed all the Primes' descendants, save the one hidden from him who had no knowledge of his ancestry: Optimus. Additionally, The Fallen would have been revealed to have promised Megatron the powers of a Prime, which Optimus would expose as impossible during the final battle around the harvester, causing Megatron and Starscream to leave The Fallen to his death.

• The Fallen was originally supposed to be trapped inside a triangular sarcophagus as seen in Defiance. Defiance writer Chris Mowry reportedly nearly spilled his coffee when he watched the movie for the first time and saw The Fallen just sitting in a chair inside the Nemesis.^[75] Exactly how this was supposed to inter-connect with The Fallen surviving his battle with the Primes and returning to Cybertron is unclear. Further, if he had been sealed in a sarcophagus, then, uh, who would have sent the Seekers to Earth to look for the Matrix?

• One scene that didn't make it into the final movie would have explained Alice's sorta-human disguise: In it, Leo watches a TV ad featuring an Alice in Wonderland animatronic from an amusement park, which heavily resembles Alice. The scene was featured in the comic adaptation and the novelization. It's unclear if the scene has actually been filmed; however, the movie still features the follow-up scene in which Leo shows up to tell Sam something about Alice, only to see her robot tongue strangle him.

• Sam was to have been established as a new vessel for the AllSpark, absorbing its knowledge, which would have explained how he managed to get a scholarship to Princeton. When he was dying in Egypt, the knowledge of the AllSpark would then have transferred to the dust within the Matrix of Leadership, which was created by the AllSpark. The movie would have ended with Optimus showing Sam that he'd recovered the Matrix, which now replaced the Cube as the AllSpark's physical form.

• Another possibly dropped plot point involved an explanation for the government's cover-up of the Mission City battle in the first movie. The robots would have been declared the creations of a company either named McClaren Robotics or Massive Dynamics, which allegedly had gone rogue by accident. This is referenced in Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the movie (where the company is named "Massive Dynamics"), the junior novelization The Last Prime and IDW Publishing's comic adaptation (where the company is named "McClaren Robotics"). A McClaren sign is also briefly seen in IDW's Alliance issue 4. An extensive casting call list leaked to the internet in April 2008 listed a "Massive Dynamics CEO" as one of the new characters.^[76] Presumably, actor Steve Tom was originally intended to play the character in the movie. His official website is listing him as appearing in Revenge ever since July 2008,^[77] even though he isn't actually listed in the film's credits. Back in July 2008, IMDB also listed Tom as playing the role of McClaren Robotics' CEO,^[78] whereas Theiapolis Cinema listed him as the CEO of Massive Dynamics at the same time.^[79] It's unclear if the scenes featuring Tom were cut or dropped from the script before they were even filmed.

• Epps's wife, Monique, was also supposed to appear in the movie together with Lennox's wife Sarah. The casting call from April 2008 lists her under the working name "Theresa".^[76] The original plan was that Sam would contact Epps and Lennox by calling their wives and asking them to pass on information to their husbands. This scene appears in the novelization and in IDW's comic adaptation; in the movie, the wives are never seen, and instead of Sam, it is Simmons who contacts Epps and Lennox directly.

• Laserbeak was originally intended to appear in this film but was cut for unknown reasons.^[80]

Leaks and disinformation

Persistent fake IMDB synopsis

In July 2007, only a week after after Transformers had premiered in the USA, nearly two years before Revenge of the Fallen was to premiere and half a year before a script would actually be written, a "synopsis" for the (at that point still untitled) sequel to Transformers was posted on IMDB,^[81] containing vague guesses for a potential plot direction based on the first movie (Starscream returning to Cybertron and taking command of the remaining Decepticons–which would actually happen in IDW's The Reign of Starscream comic–and "Skorpinox" [sic] stealing Megatron's body from a military base, in contrast to the first film's actual ending), including several glaring spelling and grammar errors. The "synopsis" was eventually exposed as the work of Next and xXx: State of the Union director Lee Tamahori, who wanted to use it as a pitch to offer himself to Paramount as a cheaper alternative for Michael Bay.^[82] Regardless, the "synopsis" was still heavily featured by other websites, including foreign theaters and media,^[83] despite multiple evidence (trailers, official information provided by Paramount, leaked information about the involvement of a character named "The Fallen") suggesting that the alleged "plot" was pretty much bunk. The fake synopsis still persisted in some places long after Revenge had already hit theaters, despite being directly refuted by the film itself.

Fake treatment

In October 2007, an alleged treatment for the (at that point still unnamed) Transformers sequel surfaced on the internet.^[84] While producer Don Murphy soon claimed that it wasn't real,^[85] Michael Bay's website administrator Nelson Lauren countered by suggesting that it wasn't a fan creation,^[86] then referred to an ambiguous post he had made a few days earlier, in which he had hinted that information might be spread that would not be entirely reliable.^[87] What followed was a brief back-and-forth with Murphy accusing Nelson of "stirring shit up",^[88] which prompted Nelson to counter that he had better sources than Murphy.^[89]

Michael Bay's alleged disinformation campaign

In April 2008, director Michael Bay claimed he had initiated a huge disinformation campaign in order to prevent content details from the movie being revealed to the public before he wanted them to.^[90] Ultimately, Bay himself turned out to be the main source of genuine disinformation, despite claiming that only what he said was 100% true. Therefore, the disinformation campaign mostly hinged on fans believing in its existence, and rejecting any genuinely "leaked" information, including set photos, statements by third parties such as Hasbro or IDW Publishing and stolen toy prototypes, as "disinformation". Screenwriter Roberto Orci eventually admitted that the disinformation campaign wasn't really working.^[91]

In June 2008, when principal shooting had just begun, a call sheet was leaked to the internet,^[92] which revealed the casting of Ramon Rodriguez as a character named "Leo", the appearance of an Audi R8 and Arcee as well as a character with the working name "Stinger". Furthermore, an ice cream truck that had just been spotted on the Bethlehem set a day earlier^[93] was hinted to be two characters only referred to as "The Twins". Lastly, the call sheet revealed that the next shooting location would be the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where an SR-71 Blackbird would be revealed to be a Decepticon named Jetfire. A character named "Wheels" was also supposed to appear in that scene. In July 2008, Bay then claimed that fake scripts, treatments, "wrong schedules and call sheets with fake scenes on them" had been deliberately leaked to the internet.^[94]

For the longest time, Bay upheld the position that Megatron would not return in Revenge of the Fallen. After concept designs of Megatron's new alternate mode had surfaced (some of which would later turn out to be designs for the RPM Megatron toy, while the first ones that surfaced were far too advanced for mere "toy" designs^[95]), Bay insisted that this was "just Hasbro coming up with a new toy", and Megatron would not appear in the movie.^[96] Following officially released evidence to the contrary (including Megatron's brief appearance in the February 1 Super Bowl TV spot and the February teaser trailer), screenwriter Roberto Orci confirmed that Megatron would indeed return.^[97] Shortly afterwards, Bay retracted his claims, but not entirely, suggesting that Megatron would only appear in a flashback scene "from the long lost past", despite the fact Megatron could be seen pinning Sam Witwicky to the ground in the aforementioned TV spot and teaser trailer. He also denied that Megatron would transform into a tank.^[98]

General Motors and the Chevrolet Volt

In August 2008, after a Chevrolet Volt vehicle had been spotted on the set of Revenge, General Motors reluctantly admitted having provided the car to the production crew, and that the car would indeed appear in the film, but claimed that it was no production vehicle (i.e. some details may differ from the final car, similar to Bumblebee's Concept Camaro in the first movie). Chevrolet also claimed that the Volt was only used for one or two days of shooting, and that it would only "appear in the movie very briefly", and "not as a Decepticon or Autobot", so it would "not have a Transformer nickname".^[99] (While it's true that Jolt was a last-minute addition to the movie, the car was spotted again later at a different set.^[100])

Edited IDW interviews

Bay and/or Paramount also tried to have information prematurely revealed by third parties contained after the fact: During San Diego Comic-Con 2008, in an interview on July 25, comic book writer Simon Furman revealed that the film would feature a character named The Fallen, which was a character they had created for Dreamwave's The War Within: The Dark Ages.^[101] Three days later, IDW Publishing writer Chris Mowry corroborated the claim in an interview with MTV Splash Page, calling "The Fallen" the main villain of Revenge. Arcee was also confirmed in the same interview.^[102] Less than a week after this, however, Michael Bay reiterated that everything leaked thus far was part of his alleged disinformation campaign, and that only a handful of people involved with the production of Revenge of the Fallen had actually seen the script, contradicting IDW's interviews where their representatives confirmed that they had the script. Additionally, Bay claimed the only truth about the film revealed up to that point was Sam going to college.^[94] Curiously, on August 5, 2008, after a fan had pointed out the contradiction to Bay, all references to The Fallen (and Arcee) were removed from the aforementioned interviews, as well as any references to IDW Publishing having the script.^[103]

Other (minor) instances of disinformation and misconceptions

Other (in)famous instances of disinformation included an alleged sighting of both Jazz's Pontiac Solstice vehicle mode and voice actor Darius McCrary on the Bethlehem set^[104] (it's possible that someone mistook an Audi R8 or the Chevrolet Corvette concept car for a Pontiac Solstice, and McCrary might have genuinely visited the set out of sheer curiosity) and an "update" to a (legitimate) casting call that contained nothing but fake character names and descriptions,^[105] including a funeral director who would allegedly bury Simmons. It's unclear whether any of these were instances of deliberate disinformation on behalf of Bay, or just attention-seeking fans coming up with made-up "scoops" on their own. Furthermore, three of Barricade's Saleen Mustang prop vehicles were spotted on a truck bed in Culver City, California, in March 2008, more than two months before principal shooting for Revenge started.^[106] It's unclear if this was an instance of deliberate disinformation, or just a genuine move of the vehicles with no further intention behind it.

Notes

• The official title of the film is Revenge of the Fallen (with a lower-case "t" in "the") even though it is apparently referring to The Fallen (with a capital "T" in "The").
• Marketing for Revenge of the Fallen briefly used the tagline "Our World. Our War.", a play on the primary marketing tagline from the first live-action film, "Our World. Their War.".
• Leo's room features posters for Naruto, Cloverfield (whose infamous first teaser debuted at screenings of the first Transformers film), and Bad Boys 2 (another of Michael Bay's movies).
• During the scenes set in and around the deli in NYC, posters for the bands Catch Twenty-Two and Voodoo Glow Skulls are prominently featured.
• Even though Revenge features mostly domestic voice actors for the foreign market dubs, Frank Welker voiced Soundwave not only in English, but also in a large number of foreign dubs, including the Italian and French versions. As a result, in the Italian dub of the movie, Soundwave speaks with a strange, foreign accent. Welker is also credited for an unspecified voice role in the Latin Spanish dub, most likely Soundwave again. Furthermore, Welker is incorrectly credited for voicing Soundwave in the German dub, even though German dubbing insiders insist that the voice heard in the actual movie has been provided by someone else (Horst Lampe, who also dubbed Animated Ratchet), presumably as a last-minute decision because Welker's "German" performance was considered sub-standard.^[107] Welker described the entire process of dubbing Soundwave in different languages as "very hard".^[108]
• Both the European French dub and the Canadian French dub took a few liberties during the last fight. In both versions Megatron tells The Fallen "The machine is ready to fire", an absent line from the original version, which modifies slightly The Fallen's phrase which becomes an answer: "Shoot, and this planet will die forever" ("Sink this planet into darkness forever" in the Canadian dub). When Optimus Prime and The Fallen are fighting, Megatron says "I will kill you myself" while flying at Optimus, another absent line from the original. Finally, after Megatron got thrown through the wall by Optimus, he is silent in both French dubs, while he was calling Starscream in the original version. The Canadian dub changed the line "Give me your face" for "Your time has come".
• The prequel novel introduced other Autobots into the ranks of NEST—Longarm, Salvage, and Knockout. They were present up until the events directly leading into the Shanghai incident, but were not present for any of the events featured in the film or adaptations. The Veiled Threat
• While Transformers used 20 terabytes of disk space for visual effects, Revenge of the Fallen used 154 terabytes^[109] (thanks in no small part to the titanic Cybertronian giants).
• The Chinese name for Revenge of the Fallen was "Decepticon Strikes Back" for a while before the title was changed into "The War of Revenge" in theaters and media in Taiwan around mid to late 2008.
• During a promotion for The Batman in early 2022, actor Robert Pattinson once recalled how he once lost an audition for Revenge of Fallen after botching out an American accent with him just saying "Hi, I’m from Michigan".^[110] On a similar note, during a promotion for his memoir "Yearbook" in 2021, actor/filmmaker Seth Rogen revealed that he encouraged Jonah Hill to pursue other endeavors for acting starting with Hill turning down a role that would then later be Leo. With Rogen's concluding statement being "You want to make a movie about fightin' robots? Make your own movie about fightin' robots. You can do that. That's on the table now."^[111]

• For slightly more than a decade, Revenge of the Fallen held the record for the biggest five-day opening at $200 million, until being beaten by The Super Mario Bros. Movie's $204.6 million opening in 2023.^[112] Later that same year, its record for best opening weekend for a toyline-based film was beaten by Barbie.^[113]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Transformers/Revenge (トランスフォーマー/リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji)
• Cantonese: (變形金剛: 狂派再起, "Transformers: The Return of the Decepticons")
• Finnish: Transformers: Kaatuneiden kosto ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones")
• French: Transformers 2 : La Revanche (France, "Transformers 2: The Revenge"), Transformers : La Revanche (Canada, "Transformers: The Revenge")
• German: Transformers: Die Rache ("Transformers: The Revenge")
• Italian: Transformers 2: La Vendetta del Caduto ("Transformers 2: The Revenge Of The Fallen")
• Polish: Transformers: Zemsta Upadłych ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones")
• Portuguese: Transformers: Retaliação (Portugal, "Transformers: Retaliation"), Transformers: A Vingança dos Derrotados (Brazil, "Transformers: The Vengeance of the Defeated")
• Mandarin: Biànxíng Jīngāng: Fùchóu Zhī Zhàn (Taiwan, 變形金剛: 復仇之戰, "Transformers: War of Revenge"), Biànxíng Jīngāng: Juǎn Tǔ Chóng Lái (China, 变形金刚：卷土重来, "Transformers: The Comeback (of the Decepticons)")
• Russian: Transformery: Mest' Padshikh (Трансформеры: Месть падших, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones")
• Serbian: Transformersi: Osveta Poraženog (Transformers: The Revenge Of The Fallen)
• Spanish: Transformers: La Venganza de los Caídos (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones)
• Swedish: Transformers: De Besegrades Hämnd (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones)
• Turkish: Transformers: Yenilenlerin İntikamı (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones)
• Czech: Transformers: Pomsta Poražených (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ones)

External links

• Dreamworks/Paramount's Transformers Movie website
• Hasbro's Transformers homepage
• Designer portfolios: Josh Nizzi, Ryan Church, Duncan Crawford, Paul Ozzimo, Steve Jung, Ben Procter, Sean Haworth
• Interview with Michael Bay 02/09/2009 — Collider.com

References