Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 11

When I discovered that they were making a film about Transformers, it instilled in me a wonderful sense of nostalgia. When my daughters were younger, (they are now 27 and 24), I was often left cursing after stepping on one of the partially transformed’ toys that they insisted on having for their birthdays, Christmas etc.. For this reason alone, I decided to go and watch the film at our local cinema when it came out on general release.

The plot, like most other plots, involves goodies’ and baddies’, the difference being that the sides for good and evil, in this film are portrayed by robots from another planet who have the ability to transform into various mechanical vehicles.

The baddies are led by a hunk of metal called Megatron’, whose prime objective, along with his evil sidekicks, seems to be to destroy the earth, the way their own planet was destroyed.

Thankfully the good guys, led by Optimus Prime, are equally as determined to save the ungrateful human race from extinction and befriend a young guy and (what he hopes) his hot totty of a girlfriend.

Although the dialogue is somewhat cheezy the special effects are superb and the humour entertaining. Not particularly thought provoking, but definitely worth a watch.

So get your bucket of pop-corn and drink, sit back and relax and enjoy a couple of hours of family entertainment.

 

Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 10

Transformers the Movie was the first ever movie I went to see.

At 5 years old I don’t remember the whole thing but remember being marvelled at the huge war and years later remember hearing a rumour of a little swearing hidden in it’s depths.

So of course when the new film was announced I was eager to go see it and have been keeping tabs on it’s progress since the first teaser trailor.

Shortly after the movie started I realised that this film wasn’t aimed at the scores of current 5 year olds that are playing with the latest incarnation of the transformers toy line. This film was aimed at me and the other 5 year olds who sat in the cinema over 20 years ago with our mouths agape totally consumed.

So what did I make of this film. I did enjoy it but it was very hard to digest everything. Far too many characters and complete inconsistency between humour and serious political points, women with the most stuck fast make up ever, even after a huge city fight they manage to keep that lipstick right where it is supposed to be, and many plot holes. For instance it was finitely explained how and why these alien robots are disguised as everyday human machines (well almost everyday machines) but then there was no explanation as to how Megatron managed to become a state of the art jet when he had been isolated since the time that tea clippers were hi-tech. I guess a big slow floating Megatron would not have had the same effect during the tense well executed battle scenes.

The battle scenes and transforming special effects were amazing though and made the movie well worth seeing, well that and a small role for the type cast Bernie Mac that had me and gladly most others in the cinema in hysterics.