Wow. This movie absolutely rocked. From start to finish, this movie was about as close to awesome as anything that I’ve seen yet this summer. I admit that I don’t know much about Michael Bay (the movie’s Director), but from now on when I see his name associated with a film, I’m watching it!
I guess it would be hard to say that the robots in the movie did a good job, but it would be fitting to say that the script was great. The dialogue was very well put together and the way that the human characters performed was excellent. Hey – how weird is that? In today’s movies you have to delineate between human performers and computer generated performances!
Shia LaBeouf is absolutely terrific in his role as Sam Witwicky. He plays a sort of not-quite the school nerd, but still unpopular kid who is incredibly smart with electronics (sounds like most of today’s kids). He plays the role well due, in part, to his comedic dialogue which is near perfect. One of my favorite scenes in the movie had the following dialogue between Shia and his parents when he wouldn’t open the door to his room:
Ron ‘Sparkplug’ Witwicky: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… stand back from the door!
Sam ‘Spike’ Witwicky: What’s up?
Ron ‘Sparkplug’ Witwicky: What was that light we just saw?
Sam ‘Spike’ Witwicky: What light?
Judy Witwicky: Why are you so filthy and sweaty?
Sam ‘Spike’ Witwicky: I’m a child. I’m a teenager!
Shia says these lines to perfection – you really have to see it to appreciate how funny it is!
The sound effects for the transformers was very reminiscent of the old cartoon series, which was a nice touch. I’m sure that the computer folks behind the movie could have easily put new sounds into the movie and made the transformations sound different, but the old sounds were nice. The ease of transformation is completely different from the movies and old Hasbro toys, though! Watching Optimus Prime or Bumble Bee go from truck/car to Auto Bot is something else. The same is true with all of the transformers. Great use of computer generated imagery there.
If I had to criticize anything about the movie (and that would be hard), it would be that the love story between LaBeouf and Megan Fox (who plays Mikaela Banes) is too forced at times. I mean it’s alright, but it sometimes seems like scenes relating to their love story are added just so they can be there. I would also criticize the fact that there isn’t enough character development with the military at the beginning of the movie or the “super geeks” who help decipher the Decepticon code. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if these characters didn’t pop-up again and again in the movie in situations where you’re supposed to care about them.
This movie could have easily been 5 hours if the love story and the “other” characters had a chance to develop…which I probably wouldn’t have been opposed to sitting through and watching.
All in all this is definitely a must see movie – and not just for Transformers fans, either. I give the movie my higher recommendation for an action movie. Trust me – you’ll love it!
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