Short Movie Review: Transformers
I think this is the first movie I’ve ever seen that admits outright that it was “based on” action figures. That’s not a complaint, just sort of an amused aside. But I do have some complaints: the wacky G-men supporting characters were kind of stupid; I could have done with less of the Daredevil-style shaky camera BS that directors use when they don’t feel like they can show you everything that’s going on in a fight scene; and I would’ve appreciated if Starscream had been more of a whiney bitch. Still, the robots looked pretty good, and as I’ve mentioned before, I want this to herald a new era of giant robot movies. There was some grumbling among my compatriots that the movie didn’t play a version of the original theme song anywhere, but there is the inevitable sequel…
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I think my biggest problem with the movie was that it seemed schizophrenic: it couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be a comedy or take itself more seriously. Not to say that I didn’t enjoy it, but it had pretty much left my mind by the time I had left the theater.
By Dan on 07.07.07 4:06 pm
How can there be a sequel if “ice-man” is dead?
By Jordan on 07.09.07 1:23 am
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