A Guilty Pleasure

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2007)

Normally CGI-based movies turn me off completely but Transformers has proved to be the exception. I had all the toys when I was younger (I won them in a competition) so watching this movie was virtually re-living my childhood all over again.
Being based on a comic, the plot is nothing to boast about and George Lucas would be proud of the special effects. But where this movie comes into its prime is the pure adrenalin rush you get from watching the heart-stopping action sequences. The film is also extremely humorous with the bad robots looking up auctions on eBay and doing searches on the Yahoo search engine. No prizes for guessing which two big web companies sponsored this movie!
Jon Voight plays a great Secretary of Defense that knows how to handle a shotgun. My only casting complaint would be that the Australian chick and her black hacker friend were tragically under-used. They had the potential to add a whole new dimension to the movie if they had been used more.
The ending of the movie is virtually setting up the sequel. I can't wait. In the meantime, I guess I'll just have to watch this movie another ten times!