Paramount Pictures | 2007 | 143 mins | Rated PG-13 | Sep 02, 2008 (2 Months)
“I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?” deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay’s rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind–and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee–of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar.
For centuries, two races of robotic aliens–the Autobots and the Decepticons–have waged a war, with the fate of the universe at stake. When the battle comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). An average teenager, Sam is consumed with everyday worries about school, friends, cars and girls. Unaware that he alone is mankind’s last chance for survival, Sam and his friend Mikaela (Megan Fox) find themselves in a tug of war between the Autobots and Decepticons. With the world hanging in the balance, Sam comes to realize the true meaning behind the Witwicky family motto–”No sacrifice, no victory!”
Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron–and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers!
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Product Details
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor (II)
Michael Bay
AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
English, Spanish
TBA
Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
2.35:1
2
Rated PG-13
Paramount
September 2, 2008
143 minutes
14 Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
“I’ll take the Blu-Ray special, with two disks, please…”,
By Lee DeWald, (Nebraska) - June 15, 2008
I’ve always been the type of movie-goer who attends films with the sole purpose of being entertained. I don’t plop down my hard-earned cash at the theater to experience a profound experience, or to empathize with Academy Award-winning noteworthy acting performances, or to scrutinize just how many plot holes there were in any given movie. I leave all that huffy junk to self-important artsy reviewer-folk who like to believe they’re more important than they really are.
“This movie is a profound experience.” Yawn.
“The actors gave noteworthy performances; dare I say, Academy Award-like.” Whatever.
“There were enough plot holes in this film to keep construction crews busy for a week!” Sure.Yeah, you go ahead and write your self-righteous reviews. Nobody cares. I attend films to be entertained, plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less. As long as I’ve been entertained, been allowed to escape the dregs of living in the real world for a couple of hours, then I leave the theater satisfied. And, I gotta say, “Transformers” entertained the bejeezus out of me.
I’m not even going to pretend to be unbiased here. Looking for such a review? Then scroll down to more appropriate artsy, self-righteous fare. Because there gonna be whole lots of “Tranformers” lovin’ goin’ on right here.
When this movie came out in July, 2007, I only had a vague idea of the “Transformers” concept. I did not watch the cartoon as a child, nor did I play with the toys. The only “Transformers” experience I can remember as a kid was reading a comic book one time where some robot named Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to save all his robot friends. So, essentially, I went into this movie not knowing what to expect. What I got, friends, was darn near two hours of wall-to-wall entertainment…and what was, for me, the best movie-going experience of all 2007.
Don’t get me wrong. There were a LOT of great movies in 2007. I saw more movies at the theater last year than any other year COMBINED. I hardly ever used to attend the theater. But of all the films that entertained me last year (from “TMNT”…to “Spider-Man 3″…to “Enchanted”…to “Juno”), and there were several dozen, “Transformers” was THEE movie-going experience for me.
I loved the characters, the action, the humor, the music. ALL OF IT. I, for one, can’t wait for the sequel in the summer of 2009. In the interim, I’ll just have to satisfy myself with the Blu-Ray release of this extraordinary movie, which has been a long time coming for anyone who loves this film as much as I do.
As a final thought, let me just say that I felt this movie was a profound experience, where each and every one of the actors gracing the silver screen gave noteworthy performances (dare I say it, Academy Award-winning?!), and you’ll be hard-pressed to locate any construction crews to fix the plot holes in this film because…well…there be none!
Thus ends my self-righteous, all-important, artsy-fluff review.
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