Movie Review: Transformers (2007)
Published July 03, 2007
Written by Hombre Divertido
If you are looking for a movie that will bring the toys and cartoons to life, this is the film for you. The special effects are amazing. If you are looking for any kind of story, stick with the cartoons. This film makes no sense at all.
It is a good hour into the film before we get any kind of explanation as to what is going on, but said information becomes useless as the story… wait, that’s too generous, as the film progresses. By then we have seen our forces in the Middle East get slaughtered, which was far more disturbing than entertaining, and we are still waiting to be introduced to characters we came to see.
Though the plot is missing, the performances are not bad, the characters are likable, and the dialog actually contains some pleasant humor, but eventually you will find yourself asking questions and counting the GM logos. Questions like how are people able to run away from something that big? How are robots not seen when they appear to be in plain sight? What exactly happened at the end with that cube? In a movie called Transformers, shouldn’t we have gotten to know the robots a little more and some of the humans a little less?
It’s a little unclear as to who the target audience is here. It is far too violent for young children, older kids may not know who the Transformers are, and it makes far too little sense for adults. The ending certainly set up a sequel and certainly left the audience wanting more, which is normally good, except in this case the more is a plot. Perhaps they could include that in the next one.
For a movie over two hours, one might expect a longer review, but since a review would normally give some insight into the story, and there was none, I can’t transform this into anything bigger.
Recommendation: The special effects won’t be as good on a DVD, so if that’s what you’re looking for, go see this. For a better action movie with a hint of a story, go see Live Free or Die Hard.
- Movie Review: Transformers (2007)
- Published: July 03, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Review, Video: Action, Video: SF
- Writer: El Bicho
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I would have to agree, as a transformers fan there was little to do with the original transformers we all grew up watching. If you just push all your knowledge about transformers into a dark deep hole somewhere and start over new with no knowledge but what you get from the movie one could probably jump for joy screaming cool this movie is the best.I believe that the movie was intented for the general public and those that know little or nothing about transformers. hardcore fans will lesslikely accept this movie for wat it is. There were to many flaws in this movie. As matt mentioned prime is weak in the movie. How can such a weak personality like primes be that of a leader. It's also disgraceful to the original Optimus Prime when he stands up and says "One shall stand and one shall fall" and then Boom like that megatron throws him into a building and I must stress with only one hand. Sad. The CG effects is what I believe captured the attention of all if not most of the viewers. But that doesn't mean that this movie was true to transformers. It was clearly shown that transformers according to the movie are aliens. But the aliens just digitally copy car and plane and other images as a disguise for themselves. After landing on earth the autobots looked like scared naked aliens trying to hide. Giving transformers the ability to change forms so easily takes away the beauty of each robots form. Imagine Prime being 5 or more different trucks through out the movie. That would just be plain stupid. If bumblebee was to get injured then recieved the new camaro body as a result of upgrading repairs understandable digiatlly changing his look because kids thought he looked corny unacceptable. It'd be to easy for the robots to disguise themselves a the enemy. Autobots could disguise themselves as decepticons and decepticons as autobots. Heck why stay in truck form prime should magically change to Jet form. Why stay autobots, new line Jetbots Transform. See that just wouldn't be right.The movie over all was ok, like I mentioned in the begining just forget about the old original transformers and start fresh act like you don't know transformers til you watch the new transformers movie and wah lah your a new die hard transformers fan. Where megatron is unbeatable by robots only humans and prime is weak and autobots are weak and devastor being one robot and is no longer a giant robot. I mean you could then accept all these new changes. Basically New movie for New fans. Not for old fans.
If based on new storyline and movie itself it's not that bad and the sequel would probably be good too. And the sequel would probably make sense of course hoping they don't change that storyline too. And hoping the robots don't change dramatically. Would like to see some more autobots in the sequel saw to many decepticons in this movie 8+ decepticons and only 5 autobots not to pleasing. And they did kill the chance for a great devastor. Oh well dreams can't always come true right.
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I admit I grew up on the cartoon show.Didn't see the 1986 amimated movie until 1990.The plot for this movie was not what I had anticipated due to my corruption in the 80's series. I was used to the deep-voiced take charge take down the Decepticons no nonsense Prime. In the movie Prime seems to have trouble adjusting to Earth and his leadership qualities are weak. Jazz (one of my favorites) is a big disappointment. I know Scatman Crothers has passed, but come on they could have had another voice actor do the job just as well as Scatman. Jazz's character is only in bit scenes not a predominate fixture like in the first two seasons of the animated series. Ironhide is a bit too trigger happy for his own good. He is ready to shoot everything. He might be the weapons expert, but I wouldn't let him near a straw and a wet piece of paper. Ratchet albiet not the most exciting character in the movie or even the 80's series he was a good addition due to the fact you know that there had to be a medical officer involved, kind of like Star Trek. Bumblebee is not the scrawny little VW anymore. In fact he takes a swipe at a bug on the car lot. Bumblebee would have been the car for most boys in highschool and that would be just to get the girls. Put these 5 together you get a cross between Star Trek, The Three Stooges and a mix of all the variations from the Transformers line of shows, comics and toys. Any followers of the animated series will recognize a few memorable lines as well as handweapons. The Decepticons were just as weak but the following movies have great potential.
If you pay close attention to many of the background shots and ignore the eyecandy of fireballs and soda machines pulling a Maximum Overdrive scene you would have noticed a few more Autobots and Decepticons lined up for the next movie. Arcee,Powerglide and Hoist to name a few of the Autobots.
Overall the movie tried to be bigger than it was . The comedy and cussing was nothing more than cheap filler. Plot line was streached thin, the Autobots and Decepticons were not at all interested in anything execpt blowing things up and acting like some cheap Godzilla movie extras. I would give this movie a 7 due to the nostalgia and potential to have more character development.