Comments on: 'Transformers' provoke unexpected variety of rapture

Blogospheric commentators do formal cinematic criticism and just let fly with off-the-chain gushing normally seen in 12-year-old boys.

[Atari05]

I agree with

Later on in the film, the giant robot-on-robot battles are awe-inspiring- or rather, they would have been, if the camera had been pulled back about 20 feet and kept still for all of 2 seconds.


Totally agree with this statement. I TOTALLY enjoyed the movie but sometimes I thought the camera was way way to close. I think the reason for this was to impress the size of the bots to the viewer but I don't think it was needed. Other than that the movie totally rawked

[the Otter]

Why the language?

Could somebody please explain to me why on Earth a
Transformers movie would require the f-word and various sexual
references? I mean, come on?. The ?80s movie (where Spike, Ultra
Magnus, and Galvatron all curse) was bad enough. No matter how
cool the movie is, the sex and cursing is a major blight on what
could otherwise have been one of the most amazing movies ever.

[harperjm--2008]

I agree - vulgarity not needed in this type of movie

I agree with this post. It's very unfortunate that the film makers chose to go this route for a movie based on (and still trying to sell) children's toys.

[umbrae]

Not that bad...

I never heard the F word, but mother... was said a few time just without the follow-through. There was more cursing that I would have like with my children, but I think the target audience was older. The masturbation reference could have been more vague or let out, but overall it was on par with action movies of its caliber.

[harperjm--2008]

Pretty bad for a movie based on toys

It may not seem bad for an action movie by today's standards, but based on the source material, it's pretty inappropriate.

[wcstriker]

I may be alone, but...

I hated this movie. It's:
1) not faithful at all to the original series (flames on Prime, "allspark" & cube, Megatron looks like a space cockroach)
2) camera work is awful, sweeping helicopter shots to extreme closeups during fight.
3) script is horrible, tries too hard to be funny.
4) story sounds like they made it up 5 minutes before it was due, "allspark" stupidest term ever!
5) aforementioned story, has way too many extraneous scenes, like the interrogation room, or most of the first hour before any Transformers (outside of a Decepticon and Bumblebee) show up.
6) acting is bad
7) storytelling is disjointed, but that's Michael Bay's fault. He's horrid and shouldn't be allowed behind a camera.

The CGI effects were great and when you could tell what was going on, the action scenes were great too, but that doesn't make up for the rest of it. Every effects movie has good effects, better than the last (though having rewatched Jurassic Park recently, there was only one or two moments that a Dinosaur was obviously fake, and that's 14 years old) so at this point, I expect them to have a decent story. Especially when it's a subject like this with a built in fanbase.

[biggstuu]

i agree wholeheadedly

they should have kept the story exactly like it was in the cartoon
20 years ago, so that you could feel like you are watching
exactly what you read as a child...no growth, no exposition, just
carbon copy everything, or more appropriately, lets xerox it,
bumble should have been that old VW beetle. uhuh... and the
robot fights are not believable, i mean c'mon every one knows
what giant transforming machines should look like right? we
see them every day, duh, and as far as megatron, yeah, lets have
him transform in to what he was in the original incarnation of
the series, a gun, an effing .45 magnum, or have we forgotten
columbine?

After all the crap that these moral majority, tv censoring wackos,
are trying to protect us from , you really expect speilberg, et al
to allow a main character in a movie as some of you have said,
about toys, let alone hasbro's biggest toy hit in years be a gun?
I have four words...You people are idiots.

[ittesi259]

You are alone

Because I was too busy being entertained while you were obviously nitpicking it to death.

[ubnyan]

This thing is wicked!

I saw the movie twice already and it was actually pretty decent, however I must admit a couple of scenes weren't suitable for a younger audience due to the language used but it also had very clean and decent humor. Megatron does look "ugly" but that was probably because he suposely crash-landed many years ago :P (poor guy) Overall it was an awesome action movie, and if the rumors are true, the second one should be even better :)... Till all are one!