It’s not very often that a sequel is as good as the 1st movie. I believe, in this case, the sequel was even better than the original.

Not only was it an incredible movie, but I live right down the road from where quite a few of these scenes were filmed – Bethlehem, PA.  They used the old Bethlehem Steel Mill and it was really cool because I was even able to see the filming (even if it was from far, far away!)

Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen starts out with Sam heading off to college … alone. He isn’t taking his girlfriend or his Autobot protector, Bumblebee, with him.

After one of the most hysterical scenes where Sam’s Mom has been given hash brownies, Sam meets his “legend-in-his-own-mind” roommate and then he’s seduced by a gorgeous classmate (who just happens to have a 12-foot long metallic scorpion-like tail).  Then things start to get interesting.

Apparently, the Autobots haven’t been completely honest with Sam & since he’s touched a shard of the AllSpark, he knows things that he’s not supposed to know and the Decepticons will do whatever it takes to get the info that’s in his head.

A couple of movie theatre hours later and some really intense scenes, everyone (at least the good guys) live happily ever after.

What’s great is that the fans live happily ever after as well – because this sequel is well-made and definitely worth the price of the movie ticket. This is one of those movies that I am happy to recommend to everyone! Enjoy!

Since I’m a computer geek, I really love all the info that’s been put out there about how this movie was created. Here are some really cool fun-facts that I think you may enjoy!

Robots

• 1st movie: 14 robots
• Revenge of the Fallen: 46 robots (ILM only)
• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
• The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
• All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
• Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
• If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk space (This is TOTALLY cool!)

• TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space.
• Revenge of the Fallen took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
• 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering times

• If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
• A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

IMAX

• Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
• Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
• IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM Screen Time

• ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Devastator

• Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
• Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
• Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator Totals

• Number of geom pieces: 52632
• The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
• The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
• The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles