definitely more than meets the eye!

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2007)

My review Saw the film yesterday in Australia, have to say, it is definitely one of the best films this year, 8 out of 10. I found this film to be a great science fiction/comic book movie, I can safely say it is much more entertaining than any of the previous blockbusters that have come out this year such as Spider-man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Shrek 3 but I felt it still lacked things other people are going to agree with.
So here's my quick rundown:
The good:
·The films story telling is amazing, you never once feel like the story is dragging on, or boring, it really keeps you entertained and satisfied.
·The acting is terrific by some, I absolutely enjoyed listening to some of the funniest calls made by some of the human characters, Shia definitely steals the film with his wit and humour and never leaves you unsatisfied. I found Megan Fox as hot as ever and was quite a good actress, though her acting began to decline towards the climax of the film and I didn't find it too convincing, she pulls a Jessica Alba in one scene.
·The Autobot's were fantastic to watch, they absolutely kill in this film, and they were entertaining to watch when the fights broke out with the Decepticon's. I thought they were incredible and really well designed.
·The Decepticon's in my opinion stole the film, they were more entertaining and had a better story to bring to the film, and I felt they were the highlight of the film.
·Hugo Weaving was superb as Megatron, you will not even recognize him, it took me a while to realize it was him and I felt he did the best job voicing his character over everyone else.
·The special effects were awesome; it was great watching the transformations and fights. The detail was really good and the destruction caused by the transformers looked so incredible, that it was hard to believe they pulled all of it off with CGI.
The Bad:
·The dialog for the transformers was in my opinion very bad, it was too immature and it felt like Tim Story from Fantastic Four 2 came along and wrote them up himself. It felt to me that the Autobot's were mildly retarded, whether this was intentional to show how their translation from Cybertronian to English isn't very good, to make it more realistic or the writers were just bad at writing dialog and weren't sure how the Autobots would talk to one another.
·The Decepticon's were much better in dialog, which doesn't say much, they showed more maturity in their dialog and were easily taken more seriously, sad enough as I was cheering for the autobot's the whole time and expected them to be the more serious of the two races.
·Only three of the Decepticon's ever really speak; Megatron, Starscream and Barricade have actual dialog, the rest speak in Cybertronian in one scene of the film, and Frenzy swears quite a bit which I actually found amusing.
·The most under used Autobot had to be Jazz, he makes little appearances and I wasn't pleased with him one bit being a fan of the character in the cartoon series. He only speaks 3 or 4 times in the film, but had the most mature dialog out of the Autobots showing the most compassion to his follow Autobots.
·Brawl is the most underused Decepticon, he only says one thing, and appears twice in the film and that's about it for him, you will barely notice he was even there the whole time.
·Frenzy had to be the weirdest transformer, some of the scenes he's in left me saying to myself wtf, as he does some awkward things when hacking through computers.
·Certain scenes with the transformers were hard to intemperate; so much detail made it hard for me to understand what was happening and what the Autobot's were doing in the fight scenes.
·A lot of the action is rushed and frustrating to follow and was quickly done so it was kind of like Ghost Rider for some scenes, which left them pointless.
·Hardly any references to G1, I only counted about 3, so many of you who expected it to have good references, I'm afraid it doesn't.
Over all, don't take my criticism to heart, it is nothing compared to the good in the film. I recommend seeing this film; it is worth seeing and really enjoying! It has become one of my favourite films of all times and I can't wait to see it again!