Transformers

Mike17 wrote:

Most wasted 2 hours and 24 minutes of my life.

Christopher L wrote:

It's a Michael Bay movie, did you expect anything beyond loud dumb action scenes?

The funniest part of this movie comes at the end, when Bumblebee requests to stay on Earth, thereby abandoning a life of interstellar robotic ass-kicking and instead consigning himself to a life of acting as a car, sitting in rush hour every day and letting Shia LaBeouf have sex inside him. Running a close second is LaBeouf's character getting all huffy about Megan Fox's character being a former car thief. Way to be a self-righteous jackass.

Incidentally -- Megan Fox? The next actress to not be taken seriously in any capacity because she's so hot.

Nghia L wrote:

A friend asked me how I felt about this film, and I told him that I thought it was shitty, but I said it with a chuckle. I was originally going to rate Transformers a whole lot lower, but I would be lying if I did. Half of me wants to burn this movie for raping the original Transformers, while the other half wanted to embrace it for the mindless fun it provided.

So I was conflicted over what to think of this film. Megatron looked like tinfoil, Optimus Prime resembled a metal ape whenever he spoke, and the movie is essentially a huge ad. The story is complete garbage too, and I don't buy the idea of a transformer being kept frozen by human hands in...Hoover Dam! Of all places!

But surely, when the shit hit the fan, the movie kicked all sorts of ass, even though I couldn't tell what the hell was going on while the clunky-looking transformers duked it out. I left the theater feeling pretty good, despite hating a little of myself for (not) admitting it. It's cheesy, innocently stupid summer fun. Take it for what it is.

Robin H wrote:

You won't be missing anything much if you skip this one.

Great visual effects, great sound effects and editing, but that can't save this movie. At two and a half hours, it is much too long. The action is exciting, but after the first several sequences, there isn't anything new to be had in them. The best aspect of the movie is that it is delightfully campy—a smart nod to the story's roots in a Saturday morning cartoon. Even though it embraces the humor, by the end it turns into a moralizing tale that takes itself much too seriously.

Nominated for an Oscar for sound editing (big surprise, right?). If you get a chance to watch it on a great sound system with a big screen, it'll be worth the price of a rental. Better yet, get a hold of some of the old Transformers episodes and watch them back to back with the film.