7/10
Good
(I suppose).
Dose this movie
"Have The Touch"
Does it
"Have The Power"
Compared to
The 1986
"Transformers
The Movie"
(Which is 10/10
and frickin awesome
by the way)
This movie is
Piss-poor/pale
by comparison.
I think it's on far to long
and definitely started to
drag and took way to long
to get to the point.
This movie as I like to
say sufferers from
"The Godziller syndrome"
meaning it spends way
to much focus on the
humans and their boring
drama. (that's not what
I signed up for),
I'm here to see
Optimus prime kick
Megatrons butt at the
end of the day.
What really does piss me
off is I waited all movie
for a one on one and
When they go for the
Big Fight
Prime and Tron
the camra immediately
cuts away and goes back
to what the humans are doing.
No...just...No
That's bloody criminal.
That being said The
Vfx are good the action we
do get is nice albeit with
a drunk camera man who's
all over the place so it's
hard to actually make out
what the fcuk is going on.
(A guy with tourettes
could do a much steadier
job of holding the camera
still).
Michael Bay
did a good job in
bringing the
Robots in disguise
to the big screen,
I love the
Mom and Dad
They are hilarious
especially the Mom
and Maggie
(Rachael Taylor)
is so beautiful,
Holy-smokes wow.
Thank god these movies
get much much better
as we hit each sequel
apart from
"The Last knight"
which is Appalling
and definitely the worst one,
it's that bad it makes
number 1
Look like a god damn Masterpiece.
By no means a heart-wrenching or particularly memorable film, though it isn't exactly trying to be. Shia Labeouf, Josh Duhamel, and Julie White stand out from the cast as likeable characters worthy of at least some attention.
One of the most atrocious aspects of the movie is the casting of Meghan Fox. She has a very limited range of facial expressions and often looks to be as dumb as a post - her mouth is open for most of the movie and she comes off as being there just to appeal to male viewers - which is creepy, considering her character's age. Ironically, Meghan's character is the only character in the film to undergo any sort of character development. Even then, most of said development cannot be truly called "development" as it simply consists of different attributes of her pre-existing personality being revealed to the audience via clunky, unnecessary exposition.
Stuff blows up, things transform, and cars go vroom. There's some questionable explanations holding it together and a forgettable "grab the the thing before the bad guy can get to it" type plot, but other than that, it's mostly machines fighting each other or teenagers interacting. Some lame, laughably bad computer hacking takes place as well. Ultimately, this movie is stretched far too thin, has too many characters, and has little to no heart. The transformations themselves range from nonsensical to impressive. Go watch Bumblebee instead.
Review by Dahj AshaBlockedParentSpoilers2022-02-06T20:16:23Z
This was one of the favorite movies of my childhood. Due to it I still want to drive a Chevrolet Camaro one day (just renting one for a day or so) xD
I love cars, CGI, artificial intelligence (AGIs), etc. (and of course I don't mind the action :D).
So this movie was a perfect fit for me and those transformations are very cool to watch :)
Anyway, I re-watched this after quite a few years and realized that the films (at least this one) weren't as good as I remembered them :o :D It wasn't that bad but in my memory they were just much better. There are a lot of strange/weird/silly/cheesy scenes so it's hard to take things even remotely serious (plus it is kinda embarrassing to watch at times). They're cool to watch (e.g., due to the action) but the story certainly isn't as good as it could be. And for me it's just annoying and silly that Bumblebee cannot speak. The Transformers are technologically super advanced, even we humans have text-to-speech / voice synthesis technology (although that technology probably was very basic/experimental at the time of this movie), and yet Bumble be doesn't find a better way than switching between radio channels for communication (which wouldn't work well at all and require that he can simultaneously listen to all radio channels). He could simply use any speaker directly... (or generate a radio signal for his synthetic voice if he really wants to use a radio as speaker).
Back then I wondered how they could loose Megan Fox and later Shia LaBeouf from such a well known and high-budget franchise but the lack of a good story might explain that (just a speculation though, I never researched what really happened).
Anyway, the voice of Optimus Prime is still epic! <3 (that always was one of the coolest parts, especially his monologues)
Oh, and there's that awesome soundtrack of course! <3 Steve Jablonsky's "Arrival To Earth" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FHPJIhNBw) is just superb :)
Edit: I just found a nice quote on YouTube: "Transformers will always have a place in my heart".
PS: In hindsight I wonder if I found Megan Fox that hot :D IIRC I did at that time but now I don't find her that attractive anymore (sure, she looks good, but nothing special). I like Maggie Madsen (that young DoD data analyst recruit) much more now. Rachel Taylor's Australian accent is just so cool :)