Leaves Citroen for dead...

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2007)

Okay, here's the deal: i went to see Transformers yesterday for a preview screening. It blew my MIND. Now punch into the calculator that i was expecting to see a good movie. Extrapolate that, it was that good, i mean it. Now i can expect that a lot of adults went to the theatre with their kids, disheartened to be dragged into Transformers rather than an '18' rated movie. Well i'm sure their days will have been brightened. Transformers cannot from almost any angle be considered a 'corny-kiddy' movie. The very teen 'i well fancy you' storyline, not only melds fantastically with the 'end of the world' scenario powering the plot, but is also greatly improved and 'romanticised' when it's a life and everyone's death situation going on. Shia LeBouf's acting is both witty when the comedy moment calls, and when the scene asks, is extremely fast paced and romantic.
Michael Bay has truly raised the bar among the directorate elite via Transformers. The action scenes are the hands down best i've seen ever; the sad scenes MAKE you empathise towards the characters; the Transformers acting is beautifully heroic, though quite the cheesy-baked potato.
And there's the robots themselves. You really get a feel for the autobots passion for their mission of saving the universe. Self-sacrifice in the cause of the greater good seem of little loss as long as the humans survive and the Decepticons are destroyed. This is no more obvious than with Optimus. The SFX is perfect. The facial expressions on the robots are emotively-dead-on. No more can be said about that, as it would be so long, and praising...and my hand's starting to hurt.
All in all, you really would do well to put Transformers on the top of your must-see list o' summer films.
P.S. I'm 13... judge me after you've seen it. :)