Published 6/29/2009
at L.A. Times - Movie News
"Revenge of the Fallen" turned off critics, but it reaped an estimated $201.2 million in domestic ticket sales in five days.
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Director Michael Bay has never been a critics' favorite, but the thrashing he received for “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was the worst of his seven-film career. Reviewers ridiculed the new sequel about battling robots as "beyond bad" ( Rolling Stone ), "bewildering" and "sloppy" ( the Village Voice ) and "a great grinding garbage disposal of a movie" ( the Detroit News ).
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