Transformers is a Go!

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2007)

To put it short and sweet: this movie was AWESOME. Go watch it right now or you will forever regret it! When I first heard that they were making a Transformers movie I was really disappointed. I thought for sure it would suck. But then as the reviews from my friends came in I had hope. I went into this movie expecting it to be good and it blew me away. The special effects are incredible (of course), it's hilarious (a giant robot flicks a guy into a building), and the expected few corny lines are totally worth it. I absolutely loved it.
There were worries about the directing of Michael Bay. We held hope that with the supervision of Steven Spielberg he wouldn't completely ruin the movie and it turned out that he tried to but it didn't work. His horrible directing actually turned out pretty good. There was a moment in the theater where my friend leaned over and whispered, "Haha, look at that! It's Armageddon!" And literally two minutes later a character in the movie says, "This is better than Armageddon!" No lie. Needless to say we cracked up. Not to mention the main character had to wave a flare on a roof top -cough-The Rock-cough-. Other than the moments where I would have given my very limbs to have the camera zoom out so I could fully experience the mega robot fighting, it was still pretty good.
THE ROBOT FIGHTING! I was not disappointed. I went into this movie wishing for sweet giant robot fights and Transformers wins with flying robot parts! They were incredible! I will be dreaming about awesome explosions and giant weaponry tonight.
The movie also stuck really well with the cartoons when it came to Optimus Prime vs Megatron. I mean, let's be honest, in the cartoon Optimus Prime was a frickin pansy. He didn't even hold a candle to Megatron. The movie reflected exactly that! It was so great! When they did their little one-on-one I couldn't help but giggle madly as Prime got his butt kicked! Throughout the whole movie he was the exact Optimus Prime that I remember. I take off my hat and salute the writers. I love them.
Perhaps one of the greatest things about this movie is that they show mankind fighting back and kicking some robot butt. They don't paint us as weaklings; our weapons work and we figure out how to get under the robots armor. The Autobots were not alone in their fight! MAJOR SPOILER: Starscream gets away in the end (hello Transformers 2!) which was also great since him and Megatron were always in a power struggle over the Decepticons.
Some people say the plot was too childish, but I thought it worked fine. I didn't go for plot I went for giant explosions. The plot kept to the beauty of the Transformers and in the end it was Spongebob logic: kids will save the day and grown ups will always mess it all up until they finally listen to the kids.
There were a couple downers in the movie, but they weren't anything that really took away from the movie, just stuff I wished went a little different: a Mountain Dew machine turns evil. Come on! Mountain Dew would SO be an Autobot! Also, they never played the Transformers theme song. If they had played it during the credits it would have made the movie absolutely perfect. I was highly disappointed to not hear it at all before, during, or after the movie.
My last regret was that Megatron didn't turn into a giant gun. He turns into a jet. Meh. Giant gun was way cooler.
Now, one hilarious thing about the movie: THE BLACK GUY DIES! There's a moment when Bumblebee gets trapped and everyone is all depressed about it. Then Jazz, the Autobot that sounds like a ghetto black man, gets ripped in half and nobody cares. Not only that but he was the ONLY Autobot to die! How messed up is that?! Hahahaha! Classic Hollywood. The black guy robot didn't stand a chance.