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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and a bunch of effects Directed by Michael Bay Rated PG-13

Sitting through Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is singularly depressing. Only a few films have ever cost as much money to produce, and few films of its stature have ever been so devoid of brains, heart, soul, energy, impact, and story. In short, this is Hollywood at its worst. I nearly walked out.

The one thing Transformers gets right is the visual effects. Specifically, we're dealing with more Transformers than before, as if that outweighs the absence of character development.

The first Transformers, perhaps in spite of itself based on the current evidence, managed to have some heart and intelligence even though it, too, was a showcase for computers and not actors. And that's fine; there's a place for it. Hell, Star Trek is one of the most enjoyable movies of 2009 using more or less the same formula. How is it even possible that Trek and the Transformers movie from 2007 both employed two of the three writers of the new film, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman?

Director Michael Bay is not known for engaging your brain, but even for Bay, this film represents an all-time low. The robots in Revenge of the Fallen have more personality than the human characters, save for John Turturro's returning government agent. They also have too much dialogue and suspicious accents, which is a milder way of saying they project ethnic stereotypes. Two of them make Jar Jar Binks look like a paragon of political correctness.

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