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Roger Ebert

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I didn't have a stop watch, but it seemed to me the elephantine action scenes were pretty much spaced out evenly through the movie. There was no starting out slow and building up to a big climax. The movie is pretty much all climax. The Autobots® and Decepticons® must not have read the warning label on their Viagra. At last we see what a four-hour erection looks like.
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The Fall of the Revengers, discussing the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen "Roger Ebert's Journal" (June 24, 2009)

 
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