"Is it fear or courage that compels you, fleshling?" Megatron in Transformers (2007)
Weighing in at an impressive $200 million budget, with the dazzling new sensation Megan Fox and the young talent of Shia LeBeouf, Transformers 2 seems like a movie that even the most remote hermit should know all about. Yet they don't, and why not? Maybe it's because the plot revolves around a teenage kid fighting along side clunky transforming robots (like the action figures you used to play with in the tub, only lots more CGI) to save the world against other bad clunky robots all from the planet Cybertron. Meanwhile, all us other 'fleshlings' just stand by and hope that our fighter (Optimus Prime and company) comes out on top. I wonder if North Korea would share that opinion?
The truth about this Transformers movie is that it's 147 painful minutes of thoughtless special effects action. Director Michael Bay and producer Steven Spielberg comes to the table with very little plot, themes, complex sentences, and characterization to speak of. But for the targeted audience, teens and tweens, that's alright. So if you're ready for some reckless violence, rather good reckless violence I might add, then go check out Transformers this weekend. Hell, I'd even go during your regular Sunday nap time, and just take one somewhere in the boundless middle of the movie. But Roger Ebert and I are going to skip past this one, as Optimus Prime said, "We are here, We are (still) waiting."
Weighing in at an impressive $200 million budget, with the dazzling new sensation Megan Fox and the young talent of Shia LeBeouf, Transformers 2 seems like a movie that even the most remote hermit should know all about. Yet they don't, and why not? Maybe it's because the plot revolves around a teenage kid fighting along side clunky transforming robots (like the action figures you used to play with in the tub, only lots more CGI) to save the world against other bad clunky robots all from the planet Cybertron. Meanwhile, all us other 'fleshlings' just stand by and hope that our fighter (Optimus Prime and company) comes out on top. I wonder if North Korea would share that opinion?
The truth about this Transformers movie is that it's 147 painful minutes of thoughtless special effects action. Director Michael Bay and producer Steven Spielberg comes to the table with very little plot, themes, complex sentences, and characterization to speak of. But for the targeted audience, teens and tweens, that's alright. So if you're ready for some reckless violence, rather good reckless violence I might add, then go check out Transformers this weekend. Hell, I'd even go during your regular Sunday nap time, and just take one somewhere in the boundless middle of the movie. But Roger Ebert and I are going to skip past this one, as Optimus Prime said, "We are here, We are (still) waiting."
1 comments:
i thought the movie was alright, but definitely not what i was hoping for! having watched all of the old cartoons i wished they aligned their characters and story up a little better. They could have possibly straightened out their plot...such as having the main focus being the machine that would harvest the exploded sun's power, instead of all those stupid little twists and stuff they put it.
if i had it my way, this would have been a indie film about the love between robots and humans ^_^ instead of mindless cgi fighting. bla.
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