I had serious misgivings about this movie from reading too many online
reviews that ripped it apart as flashy and "fetishistic about cars and
weapons." Well, it just goes to show that critics should be harshly
reprimanded for being a kill joy because Michael Bay's Transformers was
darn, flaming hot awesome!
The special effects were absolutely amazing! But
it was more than just action packed, the script was witty, and guarantees an
infinite number of chuckles and infinity times two number of laughs. Immediately
into the first 15 minutes an evil Decepticon hacks and downloads top secret
government information at a U.S. army base. Blackout (the Decepticon) comes in
as a helicoptor that was destroyed in Afghanistan, so it's received with full
military defense as it lands. The scene was glorious as Blackout transformed
into a beautiful machine and the chopper blades folded and the machine suddenly
had cannon arms targeting the screen.
So the Decepticon basically annihilates the army
base Qatar, but there are survivors so out jumps from its core a scorpion
monster machine to hunt them down. And Wow that scene is insane as well. The
movie shifts back to a teenage boy, Sam Witwicky, who buys a Autobot disguised
as a old Camaro. Sam soon discovers that his car is a alien robot named
Bumblebee and that it and the other Autobots have a mission to retrieve the
Allspark. What is the Allspark? A very important object that cannot fall into
the hands of the Decepticon!! And before I completely rave on about the entire
movie so just about spoil it, I will end with this: Transformers is a fun loving
film that brings nostalgia for the previous comic book reading generations and
will create new fandom with the present.
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