Leave your attitudes at the door!

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2007)

Nothing I've ever seen in compares to the sight of Optimus Prime turning from a truck to a robot and blasting the hell out of the Decepticons to the tune of YOU GOT THE TOUCH by Stan bush. I remember seeing the 1986 movie with my friend, Richard. We were the oldest kids in the theater and what a great crowd to see the film with. Everyone cheered and shouted all through it.
So, I'm a Transformer fan.
I'm not a Micheal Bay fan.
After PEARL HARBOR, I swore to never darken my eyeballs with another Micheal Bay film. It was easy with BAD BOYS 2 and THE ISLAND, but that jerk just had to make a Transformers movie. You can imagine how nervous I was about the film. For every good bit of news, (Peter Cullen plays Optimus Prime!) there was bad news.
I saw a Monday night preview with Lindsay and not only was it great, but it wiped away every shitty thing that has ever happened to me.
SHIA LA BEOUF plays Sam Witwicky. Sam was called Spike on the cartoon and I never thought too much of his character. He seemed to just there to bounce lines off the robots. Here, he's a fully realized character thanks to the filmmakers and Beouf. He's very likable, funny, and has a place in this world. Sam unknowingly has the key to save Earth from an invasion from the Decepticons.
What I was afraid of was that this film would turn out like the American Godzilla movie. Where boring people would take up most of the movie saying boring unfunny things and we'd only get a little of the robots. That didn't happen. In the first ten minutes we get an attack from Blackout on a army base. bay wastes no time getting to the mystery of what has landed here and what do they want.
The scenes with Sam, Mikaela Banes(Meagan Fox), and Bumblebee are almost exciting enough to be a film all by itself....but then, Optimus Prime and company arrive. Just like in 86, the crowd I saw this with went nuts at every turn. They cheered when Optimus shows up, when Bumblebee first transformers to fight Barricade, and all throughout the film.
The Autobots themselves were in character and quite funny when they had to sneak around. Peter Cullen is the only actor I wanted to play Optimus Prime, I'm so happy that they didn't get some A-list star. His voice makes James Earl Jones sound like Eddie Deezen.
WHAT WAS COOL:
HELL! ALMOST EVERYTHING! Hearing the Transformer sound when Blackout attacks. The Prime/Bonecrusher fight. Frenzy sneaking around Air Force One. Bumblebee taking a robot wiz on Agent Simmons(JOHN TURTURRO).The fact that there weren't any big stars. Keven Dunn and Julie White as Ron and Judy Witwicky! They were smart enough to know that the robots were the stars.
NOT SO COOL:
No Soundwave. Not enough character stuff with the decepticons. Megatron and Starscream have only one exchange.
Anyway, go enjoy this summer action movie, and to all you fanboys out there, leave your attitudes at the door.
ROLL OUT!!