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[12:24] Transformers - Rating 7/10
We got to go and see Transformers last night as part of a Google pre-relase viewing which was cool! The movie was pretty much like watching a 2 hour version of the original cartoon; which was awesome in all it's three-dimensional glory (we won't talk about the filthy, awful Beast Wars)! There were cool transforming vehicles, angry little mobile phones, fight scenes aplenty and Optimus Prime, bless his titanium soled-slippers, is still a preachy over-righteous do-gooder. The movie didn't try and take itself too seriously so there was plenty of humour interjected with the plot (for want of a better word) and I suspect this is one of those movies that you'll be able to watch frame by frame to pick up all the little jokes (like Barricade's "To punish and enslave" sticker).
Overall, I think this is a pretty good action movie. The plot is see-through and generally incidental to the movie as an experience. It does contain one of my pet peeves, crazy-ass technobabble (OMG, it hax0r3d your firewall in less than 10 seconds with super-frequency evolving DNA pwnage. WTF!) and I initially was upset at what I thought they'd done to Soundwave, my favourite Decepticon! Turns out that wasn't Soundwave but some dude called Frenzy. If you follow that link you'll find out that they didn't want to have to deal with "morphing" large robots into tiny tape-decks but have reserved the right to bring him in in one of the sequels. Apart from that, the lack of DinoBots and the somewhat extraneous love scenes it was all good! I think it was best summed up in a quote from one of my colleages:
That movie was awesome. If you came in expecting a treatise on the human condition, I could understand disappointment, but for those coming in expecting giant robot fights and explosions, it was pretty sweet.
[Posted at: 04/07/2007 12:24]