Teenage mutant ninja robots

Rating: 4/10 (16 January 2008)

How Spielberg ever became one of the most famous directors becomes a very imposing question after spending the evening yawning away at Transformers. A few laughs here and there, but mostly cliché after cliché, and 200 tonnes robots acting like ninja Turtles. No plot worth mentioning, unless one was a fan of Transformers as a kid. Let me outline a few things that turns me off Transformers. The government calls in all the best encryption experts from around the country. A room full of people. The hero in this gathering just happens to be a 23 year old insanely beautiful woman from Australia. She contacts the best hacker in the world, leading to a scene more or less identical to the "meet the hacker"-scene i Die Hard 4. Cliché 1. Buff sports fanatics vs. weak schoolboy hero. cliché 2. An evil alien miniature robot with comic relief sounds. Did anyone say Jarjar binks (annoyment level similar). A heroic robot clad i red white and blue armor. A heroic soldier who in the opening scene underlines his love for his wife and kid.... Rock and roll family guy, upholding the virtues of Christian America. A heroin sidekick with teeth as white as paper. Just a plain boring film with nothing new to add to film history. As childish as ET but without the charm. A tour de force in CGI, but still not enough to raise my pulse 1 beat.