Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Directed by	Michael Bay
Produced by	Ian Bryce; Tom DeSanto; Lorenzo di Bonaventura; Don Murphy;
Written by	Ehren Kruger; Roberto Orci; Alex Kurtzman;
Based on	Transformers; by Hasbro
Starring	Shia LaBeouf; Megan Fox; Josh Duhamel; Tyrese Gibson; John Turturro;
Music by	Steve Jablonsky;
Cinematography	Ben Seresin
Edited by	Roger Barton; Paul Rubell; Joel Negron; Thomas Muldoon;
Production; company	di Bonaventura Pictures; Hasbro;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 19, 2009 (United Kingdom); June 24, 2009 (United States/Canada);
Running time	149 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$200 million
Box office	$836,303,693

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is 2009 live-action sequel to Transformers. It was directed by Michael Bay and written by Roberto Orci, Ehren Kruger, and Alex Kurtzman. It stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky.

The movie grossed a total of $402 million in North America and $836 million worldwide. It was the second most successful movie of 2009, behind Avatar.

The movie was nominated for Best Sound Mixing.^[3] The movie won five Scream Awards and two Teen Choice Awards.^[4] Revenge of the Fallen was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.^[5]

It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards. It won three: for the Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.^[6]

The movie has a sequel, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Plot

In 17,000 B.C., ancient Transformers gather their energy from stars. One of them, called The Fallen, tries to harvest energy from our sun and is defeated by the others. In 2009, a piece of the Allspark, an extremely powerful cube, is used to bring Megatron back to life. Sam Witwicky is going to college, and is being hunted by evil robots, called Decepticons because he has secret knowledge about The Fallen. The good robots, called the Autobots try to protect Sam because if the Decepticons capture him it could lead to the end of the world. The conflict causes the leader of the Autobots, known as Optimus Prime, to be killed in a fight to keep Sam safe. Sam meets an extremely old Transformer who takes him to Egypt, where the device to get energy from the sun is located. He finds an object there, The Matrix of Leadership, which is used to bring Optimus Prime back to life. Optimus Prime and the other Autobots fight the Decepticons, and Optimus Prime kills The Fallen, stopping him from activating the device to take energy from our sun. The Decepticons retreat and Sam returns to college.