Couldn't Stand It!

Rating: 2/10 (11 July 2007)

OK first off, Im a huge fan of The Transformers Animated Movie from way back and the Series was pretty good and I watched most of them. But still love the Animated Movie and Im 35 now. I went into Transformers with much of an open mind that it would at least be somewhat nostalgic. And other than a few words that Optimus Prime spoke "One shall stand. One Shall Fall." I couldn't stand to sit to the end of the movie. The Transformers were ugly, extremely bulky and fake looking. They weren't streamlined at all which made them look even more absurd when they were dancing around like kung fu masters. And gliding on the Freeway, even though they had no wheels on their feet. Its like they were just ghosts. All of the combat looked like it was happening on a whole different layer than the scenery it was attached to. Even though rockets and bullets are flying everywhere. THere didn't seem to be much of it affecting the enviorment at all other than a few specific obstacles. The Autobots, maybe 6 of them in all. Had very little Personality at all, unlike the old series. The Decepticons had NO personality period other than Megatron who was only in the movie a few minutes and barely spoke a word other than to utter a few memorable lines from the old movie but said with much less Flair or Conviction. Often when an Autobot would speak it seems to come from speakers outside of them, rather than from the autobots. Which of course they are, but it shouldn't seem so, like any actors. Its like they were terribly dubbed with soundbites from the old movie, but slowed down and more automated. The little robots were clunky bug type things not at all like some of the old guys that would pop out of Soundwave. Of course there's no Soundwave this time. The plot was HORRIBLE! Every time the human kid spoke, I just wanted someone to squash his head. His Hot girlfriend was far better than him who was serious all the time and seemed to understand what was going on better than him. This movie is so goofy, its laughable. And Im saying that based on the Old Animated Movie which was 10 times more serious and complex and made a hell of a lot more sense. This is the worst looking movie by Michael Bay so far. It was like a computer game with really bad graphics. But Im sure those interested will see for themselves, its hard to resist. But prepare to sit in Horror at how little thought and consideration of the True Transformers, went into this pile of overblown Rock Em Sock Em Robots.