Transformers Movie

Lucifer_666 · Transformers Movie

As a fan of the old cartoon and haven seen some early cgi I was really looking forward to this film......and it must be said Bay and Spielberg do a great job...the special effects are fantastic....when they transform throughout the movie it looks amazing but for me it truly stands out when Autobot fight Decepticon..... its mouth gaping destruction on a massive scale and I loved every minute of it! I was also vastly impressed with Shia LaBeouf who I had only seen before in that old kids show Even Stevens....he plays his role very well and looks the business which of course I'm sure will attract female attention but also eases my fear of him being the son in the new Indiana Jones movie.. I think he may be good now!!
Megan Fox does the love interest adequately aswell and I do think she is a pretty girl...apparently though she was told to put on a bit of weight for this film as they thought she was getting too thin.... She did what she was told and put on a further ten pounds.... I still didn't see a pick on her!!

They also got the voice talent of Peter Cullen back and as soon as you hear him speak at the beginning of the movie as Optimus Prime your immediately brought back to the old 80's animation...he just has one of those voices....not that he was ever limited to Optimus he had a lot of voice work in his career in many cartoons such as Venger from Dungeons
and Dragons, Cindar in Visionaries and various characters in Ducktails, Gummi Bears, Winnie the Pooh, GI Joe, Johnny Quest, the real Ghostbusters, etc the list is as long as your arm...Its funny though because Cullen used to voice another Autobot called 'Ironhide' too ..but they got another guy in for that part in the film ..Strange?....Anyway.I personally feel nobody else but Cullen could voice Prime and I'm delighted they got him!!
Its also really neat all the different nods and trivia to the early animation in this movie amongst other things.......... but my favourite is When Bumblebee introduces himself to Sam and Mikaela, speaking through the radio, he plays the sound bite, "Across the immense gulf of space"; the voice is that of Orson Welles from his infamous 1939 radio broadcast
"The War of the Worlds." Wells provided the voice of the planet devouring transformer named Unicron in Transformers: The Movie (1986) which was Welles' final film performance. I thought that was great!!
Of course it did have its bad points too for a start Optimus's mouth just didn't look right (yep I'm scraping the barrel I know

) but aswell as that Megatron isn't in it near enough either...he's frozen throughout and only freed near the end... I think I would have preferred to have seen much more scenes of him with his Decepticons together much like the way it was in the old animation.......

If you like all action....or a special effects extravaganza...or just want to be brought back a tiny bit to your childhood .....then go see it... you won't be disappointed!!

Catnapper

It seems like everybody's seen it but me! I'm hoping to go see it in a few days time so I can post a review then. :D

Shia LaBoeuf has got good reviews so I'm glad you liked him too Luc!

Lucifer_666

And you know Babe with all our talk boosting it up you'll probably be disappointed...my wee nephew went to it too and liked it but thought it would be better... I had to laugh when I heard him say that

He's a little critic!!!!

Catnapper

Aww bless! I bet he grows up like you

......I meant he'll be good at doing reviews!

Lucifer_666

Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!!!!

I think he will be worse than me..... I wasn't critical of miovies at six years of age

Catnapper

I can't even remember what movies I saw at 6 never mind being critical of them

Lucifer_666

I know...then again I only got to go to the cinema very rarely as a treat he goes alot more.....

I love listening to hhis little opinions though....for ages there he was cricising Dr Who....that they just weren't as scary as they used to be with the new Doctor .... that was before the statue one now

Catnapper

Yeah the statue one scared me too!

I think kids today get more choice with movies than we used too......it seems a new kids film comes out every other week now whereas we had to wait months for a decent film!

Lucifer_666

The statue one was brill.....

Yeah your right of course babe...... When I was young it really had to be a blockbuster that everyone had been talking about before you would be brought to it otherwise you may forget it

Catnapper

With any luck I'll be seeing it on friday.... :D

Lucifer_666

Good stuff babe I hope you enjoy it now I know some are saying it was good but not as good as they thought..... but I found it very good!!

lord vader

yeha i hope you enjoy it

Catnapper

Excellent film with super cool cgi

Shia LaBoeuf is good and you can see why he's a rising star. I got distracted by the female lead's dazzling white teeth though........they practically glowed in the dark

I loved all the Transformers especially Bumblebee........if the models are out for Christmas then that's the one I'll be asking for!

Lucifer_666

I hear when they are releasing the female lead's doll it will double as a torch...you press a button and it smiles apparently....funny as I can do this on real women