EXCELLENT... New favorite movie to millions.

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2007)

First all, I will admit now that I am a sucker for movies with fast cars, loud music , and sci-fi action so I guess that's why I loved this movie so much. It's got ALL of my choices. So I also have to admit that if the whole movie was just car chases, Autobot fights and loud music I would probably be happy! *grins* "My favorite sound in the world is the roar of a V8 engine..." Paul Newman
It I would have to say that they are the best CGI that I have seen to date... and that's saying something coming from me. I felt that the background sounds were perfect for the film. And as some have said that the score was very definite in it's purpose without making the audience aware what Bay was actually doing. Which as we all know some Directors just can't do this day and time.
Shia LeBeouf, what else can I say. He has come a long way from the Disney channel and I am so proud. I mean it's a great place to start but even on "Even Stevens" you could tell they (being Disney) were not using him to his full potential. SO I'm so happy it turned so good for him.
Okay I personally liked Megan Fox's performance on the movie... although I admit that there wasn't much to her, meaning her person and her lines in the movie... maybe 30 lines in all. But I can say that I DO NOT feel that Fox's performance was shallow. I believe that someone might need to look a little deeper to see that she did the best she could with her lines... But I have to give my props to writers for giving a woman a role in a movie in which she can stand up for what she believe in instead of bowing under the obviously male dominated power in the script. But I am a woman so I guess that's the only reason why I mention it.
I can only remember bits and pieces of the transformers cartoon and I don't read comics so I was needless to say shock at the humor in the movie. I loved the humor. Now some people say that the "mumbo jumbo technical explanations the audience just doesn't care about"... UMMMM let me put it this way... YEAH that's wrong. That was one the best parts of movie. I loved all the "mumbo jumbo" personally.
I thought Michael Bay did an exceptional job at directing. I thought his use of light throughout the entire movies was fantastic. Light, as well as music, can enhance the mood of a scene without people realizing it. I believe that if anyone else had directed this movie that it would not have been nearly as good. Transformers is a movie that needs flashy over the top editing. We aren't here to watch a Documentary on Cotton Production... it's an ACTION MOVIE with nothing less than 18 foot tall Robots... so YEAH flashy works!
*Sighs* Ohhhh music the huge staple that holds a good movie together. Now I again admit I love loud blaring rock music and car chase scenes... but throw in a few tons of intelligent talking Autobots and we have a happy girl! I felt like the music was absolutely perfect! It just brought on the perfect mood that were perfect in the scenes where they were at.
So overall I have to say that Transformers was way beyond Great.. a movie that I will watch many many times!