Her Movie Reviews

So I know it’s been a while since this movie has been out, but I never got around to actually watching it.  Well, that’s not true,  I tried watching it at a pre-screener, but I got halfway through before the reel messed up and I never was able to finish it.  So before diving into Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I suppose it was time to finally get around to watching this movie.  For those that don’t know, Transformers is a movie based on a Hasbro toy line of cars that turn into robots.  The movie I guess tries to expand on a story for these toys saying they are aliens come here searching for the ‘All-spark’ that has inconceivable power.  Of course there are good aliens and bad ones and they decide to use our planet as their playground to wreck havoc on their quest to acquire said power.  It kind of makes me laugh saying it’s a movie that was originally conceived as a toy. I imagine some corporate big-wigs sitting in an office somewhere seeing that their transformers are dipping in sales and strum up this crazy marketing campaign to make a movie about them so they can squeeze out just one more little piece of the toy’s plastic soul.  Maybe that’s a little over reacting, but then I do find it funny that throughout the movie most of the toys use pretty much all of GM’s line-up of products including their concepts  (at which time this was the big premiere of GM’s re-introduction of the Camaro). But whomsoever big budget commercial this was, all they had to do was throw Michael Bay at it and it instantly becomes an intense action packed summer blockbuster right?  Well that is exactly what happens.  Don’t except some great plot or storyline.  Don’t even expect that great of acting.  Just expect: Big explosion, big explosion, robot, hot chick, robot, robot, explosion, explosion, fight, fight fight, really big explosion, another shot of hot chick for good measure, and roll credits.  Sorry if I ruined the movie in the last sentence, but what did you really expect?  I was entertained with the film, I mean you get to see huge ass robots fight it out for the fate of man and robot-kind alike.  The actual 3D animation of said robots is un-believable – I heard that pretty much every piece of them moved and “worked.”  So, I give props to the CG department on that one.  If you are looking for a mind-less action movie or about to rent the second one, check it out.  It will get you caught up on whatever sort of story the series has.  And if you really really like it, you are probably already cruisin’ in your Transformer-edition Camaro with your Optimus Prime happy-meal toy buckled up in shotgun.  Autobots, rollout!

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