Spoiler-y review of Transformers!

[RangerWickett]

I saw Transformers last night. Amazing movie, with a lot more subtlety than you'd expect in a summer flick. First off, it's obvious that the big new villain is a cybernetic stand-in for Satan, as he destroys or assimilates all in his path. That might seem out of place in a modern/sci-fi movie, but it works perfectly to tie into the movie's primary arc, which is basically a re-envisioned Grail quest.

At first the movie starts normally enough, with Decepticons launching an assault on the Autobot stronghold. Dramatic action sequence, tons of characters we all know and love getting screen time to either kick ass or get asses kicked, as well as a chance for the robot’s sidekick kid to show how utterly lame and ineffectual he is. The music choice is a bit odd – a lot stuff that sounds right out of the 80s – but I suppose they were going for nostalgia, so it fits.

But then there’s the twist. Spoiler alert: Megatron kills Optimus Prime! And that’s what sparks the whole quest. Along the way, the giant robot ‘Devil’ tempts Megatron with power and revenge, but ultimately turns him into a pawn, while an Autobot who you totally wouldn’t suspect ends up proving his spiritual worth as he rises to take on Optimus’s mantle of leadership.

It all culminates in an epic battle in space around the planet Cybertron, as the planet-destroying space demon transforms into a titan, the heroes launch a two-pronged assault into the heart of this living, mechanical Hell. Believe you me, you’ll love this movie!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg"]YouTube - Touch by Stan Bush from the Transformers The Movie[/ame]

 

[Klaus]

Megatron must be stopped. No matter the cost.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hmm, I think they changed something in the German cut.

 

[Marius Delphus]

The Autobot who "rises from the ranks" is totally telegraphed.

Also, this movie totally introduced me to a new genre of music. True story.

 

[Wombat]

A friend of mine passed this review on to me:

io9 - Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

This is probably far from the last word on the film, but it is a hysterical read.

 

[Pbartender]

A friend of mine passed this review on to me:

io9 - Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

This is probably far from the last word on the film, but it is a hysterical read.

"Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one."​

EN World doesn't have an emoticon to represent how hard I laughed.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hehe, he has some good points.

The note regarding the amount of detail in each scene...
The scene at the bottom of the floor has Giant Octopuses. With the design work that went into that, other people would make an entire movie! And that's just one tiny part of a scene - it would have worked without them, too!

 

[Darth Shoju]

I saw this one and enjoyed it so much I'm going to pick it up on DVD! Do you suppose there any toys for this property or anything? Maybe a TV show? The spinoff potential is enormous!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I saw this one and enjoyed it so much I'm going to pick it up on DVD! Do you suppose there any toys for this property or anything? Maybe a TV show? The spinoff potential is enormous!

Toys? How is that supposed to work? The transformations they do are clearly CGI, I doubt it's possible to replicate this with real objects.

You might come close with Legos - you just have to disassemble your car everytime you want to change it into a robot or vice versa.*


*Might be simpler if you just double each lego piece and build a robot and a car from them. You just "narrate" the transformation...

 

[Hand of Evil]

I gave it a 6/10 - it was more comedy / action than action / adventure.

I wish I could have dropped off knowledge at the door but the geography in this movie was horrid! I know, you say it is just a movie and you don't really notice those things anyway BUT it bugged the hell out of me!

Then there were the adult comedy with the robots, kitchen robot with a gun penis, german voiced robot, side-kick robot leg humping, wreaking balls, etc...that just were stupid.