Ride of your life, and then some

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2007)

No Spoilers
Gutted, 100% gutted. Gutted at the fact I have to wait another 23 days before I can watch this again. OMFG this is the best movie I have ever seen ever. Godfather II, suck my balls. Cassablanca, go hide in the corner you no good pile of horse manure. Star Wars, Bet you wish you were made in 2007 with Michael Bay directing!
OK - It was in English which was great (saw it in Norway), apart from a few times the transformers spoke to each other in cybertronian, with Norwegian subtitles. Never mind, the crowd laughed and I can wait to see what these 5 or 6 lines I missed were.
My Review.....
Non stop action. And them some. I know you can't start a sentence with and, but never mind, I'm in far too good a mood to worry about crap like that. In fact, my 30 years on this planet may just have been a build up to those last 2 hours. Explosions, fighting, explosions, sexy ladies, explosions, some big f'n robots and some more explosions. Oh yea, this might also be one of the funniest movies I have seen for a long time.
Plot wise, good robots, bad robots, humans in between and they're all searching for something. Which they find as you'd expect and everyone fights over it. That's about it really. But, my God! I am still shaking with excitement, it's just pure carnage from start to finish. I cheered a few times while watching this, as did the rest of the audience. We clapped in unison, laughed in unison and occasionally there were about 120 people saying oooooo and aaaaaaaa in unison. Bay has done a fantastic job with this. I was expecting a no brainer movie and I got it. He did me proud (so I guess I don't have to hunt him down to kill him now Laughing) and he did it with an extra loud bang.
Will kids love this movie? Yup Will 30yo's love this movie? Yup (and then some) Will older people love this movie? - To be honest, I am not sure that they all will. It's so fast paced and loud that I can imagine some old dear being taken out of the cinema with a cardiac condition. But she will probably have a smile on her face....
There was a hell of a lot of in jokes, references to other movies, actors who have Transformers connections and in general it is a geek fest. I won't spoil it for you. I will probably have to watch it 2 or 3 times to pick up on them all.
The acting.
If you've read the Empire review, you'll see that they single out Le Beouf for praise. He deserves this. He was fantastic. His comic timing helped make this movie and had someone like Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks (when they were younger) played this part the movie may not have worked. Le Beouf manages to bring the movie down to earth and keep it there. It's so real what he says and does and I can totally emphasise with his character, as will most geeks like us! comparisons to woody Allen - I say give it time but he can do it. Megan looked fantastic and was actually very good on screen. She got more time then she ever gets in Hope and Faith and she will turn out to be a big star. Josh Duhamel was very likable and it was always fun when he was up there. The rest of the cast also did a good job with no real notable bad turns.
So, as you may have gathered I liked this movie a hell of a lot but do I have any complaints. Yup, I do. There is not enough screen time for some of the Transformers. I guess that with sequels in mind they will get more eventually, I guess as it's the "introduction" movie we should have expected that. Also the way that some of the humans, (especially government ones) react to some situations is almost comical. I think that it's meant to be that way but some gain no respect for this. They don't give any indication that they could do their job if if weren't for the smart kids running around helping them.
Other than that. Brilliant.
10/10
I am sorry if this is was a bit disjointed as a review but I am very excited and my blood is still pumping.