Tranformed a little to much for my taste

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2007)

Well like many i was expecting this to bomb but was more than pleasantly surprised to be proved wrong. From the beginning the voice-over by Prime sent shivers down my spine bringing all that i loved about transformers flooding back.
The story moves at a fair pace and the action is slick and tight with hardly a moment wasted. The balance between having to explain whats going on and on screen advancement is smooth and flawless.
My only and biggest complaint which has been covered is the lack of character from the robots. Their generic look makes it hard to identify with any of them and in fight sequences is so easy to loose track of whos who. Only Prime retains any semblance of what he looked like in the cartoons. I wasn't expecting and would never want a straight copy to CGI of what they had looked like, but im sure they could have given them at least a passing resembelance to their robot form. As for the veichle mode it hardly matters that bumblebee isn't a VW, its the robot form we most associate with. My own thought is that the film wanted to show off its CGI and made them far more robot like with thousands of moving part and a sharp edgy look. but by doing so they took away their character, it would be like taking batmans bat suit away and leaving him with pointy ears. Every hero and villain needs a recognisable identity if the audience is to show any connection with them.
That aside its a great popcorn film and has you hooked on whats gonna happen next. Defo one to see