More than meets the eye: Anticipating the release of the Transformers movie – Part 5

I have seen both early trailers for “The Transformers.”

I remember as a child watching the cartoons. I am, as are many my age, waiting with unbridled anticipation for the July 4th release of the movie. I got goosebumps at the glimpse of Optimus Prime in live action. I can hardly wait to hear him speak for the first time, the voice over being done by the same actor from the original cartoons per Internet Movie Data Base.

Do not be surprised to find the first showing of the movie to be filled with late-twenty somethings and early-thirty somethings, bouncing in their seats, hardly able to control themselves and telling their offspring how cool the transformers are. The hush that goes through the crowd as the lights darken and the opening credits begin. The chance to see a movie based on a cartoon from childhood, brings back all those things from our early years and maybe give us a shadow of that hope that little children have-the future being bright and all that.

The only thing that Michael Bay and Spielberg could do to disappoint is drift away from the true nature of the transformers themselves, let the heroes be heroes and the villains be villains. Robots have no place for in betweens or being “Mr. Data.”

“The Transformers” previews have distinct shades of movies such as “Independence Day” in which aliens attack the Earth and leave only a handful of humanity to fight. In this version, it appears that the attack comes because of Man’s intrusion on Mars though we fortunately receive assistance from friendly ‘aliens.’

No matter what the early press has to say, I will most definitely be there on July 4th, bouncing in my seat, telling my nephew how cool the transformers are and that he’s gonna love it!

Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 59

Finally a movie which I feel is a real BLOCKBUSTER of 2007, so far ! Spidey-3, Pirates-3, Harry Potter,Shrek-3,Rush Hour-3..the so called big movies were all disppointing. Transformers is not, provided you keep your brain back at home and yes, watch it ONLY and ONLY on the big screen.

When I saw the movie, I had no idea about the plot. The movie begins with a narrator hinting an alien invasion on earth (Yes, yet again!).But still for the first 20 mins I was trying to figure out what this movie is all about.Trust me, it was real fun as I just couldn’t guess what is going to happen next. But after some mind boggling action sequences when I got a hold of the script , I felt now I’m not going to enjoy the rest of the movie as I started to predict the proceedings.But thankfully i was wrong!

Script/Plot is not the strength of the movie at all.The outstanding special effects,wonderfully shot action sequences and excellent humor will keep you glued to your seats.Though you will know what will happen but you will be keen to know how that will happen and the final outcome will surely not dissappoint you.There is not much scope for humans to act as the Robots have stolen the show with their action scenes and funny dialogues.I was really amazed by the quality of humor in the movie as you don’t expect people to laugh when the earth is attacked.But mark my words, you will laugh! Funny one-liners, situational comedy,whacky charecters..it has got all.

Though it is a typical good/evil war with we humans unfortunately involved , Spielberg has made sure that the movie has enough to captivate your “visual” senses and entertain you at the end of the day.

Isn’t “getting entertained” the real reason why we visit movie-halls?