Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 71

Transformers have been my cartoon favorite when I was a kid. Hence, I was so amazed watching them realistically in this new movie. Thanks to the advancement of the graphics and the sound effects. This movie is definitely unachievable without these stuffs!

Although there were some changes in terms with the story of the cartoon versus that of the movie,still, the sequence of events brought my mouth fully wide open. With Bumblebee as a Chevrolet Camaro rather than the cartoon’s Volkswagen Beetle, his new image portrays a much more detailed, robust and fashionably sound robot. How I reminisce Optimus Prime the cartoon versus this realistic Optimus Prime the movie. Seeing him “real” sealed my childhood imagination on how he would looked like in the real world. As regards with Magnetron’s image, several items have been changed.In particular, his transformation from robot to a fighter plane. He was a gun upon transformation in the cartoon series. But this change somewhat provided a much more reasonable logic as compared to a gun soaring up in the sky!

As a whole, the movie was a success! It helped me in reminiscing my childhood days. It enlightened the new kids in the block about the stuffs that their seniors once enjoyed in their childhood.

 

More than meets the eye: Anticipating the release of the Transformers movie – Part 3

Just the other day I was sifting through a box of my childhood toys that my mother kept around. I have children now, though my boy is not quite old enough to appreciate the capacity of the transformers as toys. They were so much more than a simple action figure and my love for them was equivalently more like an obsession. So I am kind of tickled, in a nostalgic kind of way, to see that they are finally coming out with a movie, and a full-throttle production at that.

The engineering behind the toys was brilliant. Especially since they developed triple-changers and sets of four or five which would combine into larger beings. However, it was necessary while playing with the toys to incorporate the wonderful sound effects of the transformations found on the tv show, and to mimic the characteristic voices of each robot. The show brought so much life to the toys. Reflecting on this makes me realize how effective the show really was.

When I saw a poster for the movie some time ago I thought, “Wow! A transformers movie.” I mean, after all these years I thought the concept was dead. I had no idea that it would actually be a live action movie, and upon seeing a still gallery of what the machines really look like, I am boyishly excited to see the end product. The actual transformers right before my eyes. I am thirty years old. I believe most of the fans of transformers are probably within a few years of my age. And this is definitely a generation of moviegoers, not to mention the fact that we are slow to mature (most of us still own multiple video game systems). So it is almost a shoe-in for box office success. I am aware that the voice of the original Optimus Prime has been on certain musical productions, so I imagine that he will be in the film. I have not yet heard, but it would be cool.

I believe kids these days will love the concept in live action, and I believe my generation will love the nostalgic rush of simpler days, so my prediction is success for the upcoming film.

 

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