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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 3632562" data-attributes="member: 11397">Hmmm. That may have been what they were looking to achieve but all it did for me was make me pissed off that I couldn't see what was going on in any fight scene in the movie.As far as Transformers is concerned, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was the best action movie that I have seen so far this summer (best overall movie of the summer is Knocked Up). I found the shaky-cam distracting at times but overall I found I was able to follow what was going on pretty well. When I first saw the character designs many months ago I wasn't impressed; like others I couldn't tell who was who or really what they looked like. However I found in the movie itself they were more distinct (possibly because it was on the big screen - it may not hold up as well on a tv). I also thought it was pretty funny in a lot of places and the crowd seemed to agree. Still, while I did enjoy it I also found it didn't really trigger my nostalgia. After thinking about it I guess it is due to the focus of the movie on the human characters. While I found Spike was good, there were too many secondary characters cluttering things up (as someone else pointed out). The Transformers themselves felt pretty secondary and I never really got to identify with any of them; as weird as that sounds when speaking about giant robots, I think that is where the disconnect was for me. While I agree that the original series never really had strong characterization, it was still about the Transformers. I think this movie would have worked well if Spike had been kept as the main protagonist, the secondary cast thinned out a bit and more time been spent with the robots. If they had been given some more human-like facial features (like the original cartoon) it would have helped too.But in the end it was still really enjoyable. I'd see it again without hesitation.</blockquote>

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