Robot in Disguise ... OF PURE AWESOME!!!
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andrasteI just spent half an hour walking home from the movies in the rain, having accidentally left my umbrella at home. I SO DO NOT CARE.
Short version: if you never watched Transformers or played with the toys as a kid, but think a summer action flick about giant robots fighting is the kind of thing you might enjoy, you should go see this. It's a lot of fun.
If you grew up playing with Optimus Prime and Megatron or are the kind of person who can tell Rumble from Frenzy, you should go see this now.
I just really, really enjoyed this. The only real downside for me was that I would have liked more of the Decepticons in general and Starscream in particular. Of course, I'm biased. This could have been two and a half solid hours of Starscream bitching about Megatron, preening and blowing things up and I still would have walked out saying 'you know what that needed? More Starscream.' Still, lack of Decepticons is what fanfic is for.
Dot points OF LOVE:
- Who would have thoughtSpike Sam could be such a great character?
- Staying in the human perspective throughout - there's barely a handful of scenes where the Transformers interact without human observation and comment - really maintains the sense that these are alien robots. Having them blow up heaps of stuff helps, too *g*.
- I had my doubts about Bumblebee being a Camaro, but he was so adorable I got over it in about five minutes. I made whimpering noises every time something awful happened to him. Bad humans! Do not torture the loveable yellow one!
- Sam/Mikaela/Bumblebee OT3! Seriously, Bumblebee spent the first part of the film trying to get the humans to have sex in his back seat. Then Mikaela refuses to leave her robot friend behind to be killed, and the first thing he says when his voice is fixed is that he wants to stay with Sam. Awwwww.
- I was on my own sitting next to, you know, normal people. So I did not squeal when Frenzy turned up. But I wanted to. He was so cool! I didn't realise he was even going to be in the film - this is the advantage of avoiding spoilers - so I spent the whole time trying to work out if he was meant to be Soundwave, Rumble or Frenzy. My bet on Frenzy would have paid off *g*.
- Optimus Prime is a giant metallic woobie, as he should be. So glad they hired Peter Cullen, who really does have the perfect voice for the role.
- The entire scene where they're 'hiding' in Sam's back yard was hysterical. Especially when Ironhide suggested killing Sam's parents as an option. And when the dog peed on him.
- Speaking of which, I left for a toilet break part way through and came back to find Optimus Prime telling Bumblebee off for 'lubricating' a government agent. I cannot believe they put that in!
- I hope Jazz being the Autobot to get killed was an ironic comment on how the black guy always bites it in movies like this, but I'm kind of afraid that it wasn't.
- Poor Starscream. He comes to rescue his leader from being poked by humans for decades and all Megatron can do is bitch about Starscream losing his cube *g*.
- My favourite jet made up for not having much screentime by being terrifyingly effective when he was around. Glad that the last image in the whole film is Starscream leaving Earth. Going to look for reinforcements, maybe?
- OK, hands up who didn't go 'woohoo, Galvatron for the sequel!' when Sam zapped Megatron with the Allspark and the government dropped him in the sea?
Short version: if you never watched Transformers or played with the toys as a kid, but think a summer action flick about giant robots fighting is the kind of thing you might enjoy, you should go see this. It's a lot of fun.
If you grew up playing with Optimus Prime and Megatron or are the kind of person who can tell Rumble from Frenzy, you should go see this now.
I just really, really enjoyed this. The only real downside for me was that I would have liked more of the Decepticons in general and Starscream in particular. Of course, I'm biased. This could have been two and a half solid hours of Starscream bitching about Megatron, preening and blowing things up and I still would have walked out saying 'you know what that needed? More Starscream.' Still, lack of Decepticons is what fanfic is for.
Dot points OF LOVE:
- Who would have thought
- Staying in the human perspective throughout - there's barely a handful of scenes where the Transformers interact without human observation and comment - really maintains the sense that these are alien robots. Having them blow up heaps of stuff helps, too *g*.
- I had my doubts about Bumblebee being a Camaro, but he was so adorable I got over it in about five minutes. I made whimpering noises every time something awful happened to him. Bad humans! Do not torture the loveable yellow one!
- Sam/Mikaela/Bumblebee OT3! Seriously, Bumblebee spent the first part of the film trying to get the humans to have sex in his back seat. Then Mikaela refuses to leave her robot friend behind to be killed, and the first thing he says when his voice is fixed is that he wants to stay with Sam. Awwwww.
- I was on my own sitting next to, you know, normal people. So I did not squeal when Frenzy turned up. But I wanted to. He was so cool! I didn't realise he was even going to be in the film - this is the advantage of avoiding spoilers - so I spent the whole time trying to work out if he was meant to be Soundwave, Rumble or Frenzy. My bet on Frenzy would have paid off *g*.
- Optimus Prime is a giant metallic woobie, as he should be. So glad they hired Peter Cullen, who really does have the perfect voice for the role.
- The entire scene where they're 'hiding' in Sam's back yard was hysterical. Especially when Ironhide suggested killing Sam's parents as an option. And when the dog peed on him.
- Speaking of which, I left for a toilet break part way through and came back to find Optimus Prime telling Bumblebee off for 'lubricating' a government agent. I cannot believe they put that in!
- I hope Jazz being the Autobot to get killed was an ironic comment on how the black guy always bites it in movies like this, but I'm kind of afraid that it wasn't.
- Poor Starscream. He comes to rescue his leader from being poked by humans for decades and all Megatron can do is bitch about Starscream losing his cube *g*.
- My favourite jet made up for not having much screentime by being terrifyingly effective when he was around. Glad that the last image in the whole film is Starscream leaving Earth. Going to look for reinforcements, maybe?
- OK, hands up who didn't go 'woohoo, Galvatron for the sequel!' when Sam zapped Megatron with the Allspark and the government dropped him in the sea?
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Date: 2007-06-30 03:52 pm (UTC)