Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Badass Decay: Megatron and Starscream. Megatron's case is more arguable than in the following film, however, since he still engages in quite a bit of genuine combat and manages to kill Optimus (though he gets better). Starscream, meanwhile, has been reduced to a complete joke and a Butt Monkey of sorts.
  • Critical Dissonance: Considered one of the worst action movies, scratch that, worse movies of the 2000s. The disjointed editing, the bare-bones plot, unfunny if not outright disgusting jokes and subplots, let's just say the movie is hated by both Transformers fans and critics. It still made millions on the box office.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: The scene with the Allspark fragment from the first film falling into the kitchen, turning his kitchen appliances into destructive feral Transformers, a fight ensues, the house is destroyed. Afterward, this scene is never mentioned again, despite likely being used to establish the power of just one Allspark fragment.
  • Contested Sequel: Everyone agrees the Sequel Escalation was excessive, but the final opinion is divided between "mindless fun" or "total abomination".
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Jetfire, Sideswipe and Simmons (the latter of which was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap).
  • Ho Yay:
    • Between Megatron and Starscream.

"Starscream, I'm home!"