Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/16/2007
"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar.
Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers! --A.T. Hurley
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
A Great Time and Money Well Spent:
Truly entertainment you won't fall asleep while watching. BIG...this movie is big time fun. We all really enjoyed watching it, brought back many memories. Kept you hanging on right up through the end. Good for just about any one, okay rated PG-13. So parents need to use their own judgment here. But young and old will enjoy this action packed film.
Great movie to test your blu-ray player/ps3:
Sound picture awesome. Extras and bonus features
just as good as movie. If you grew up watching
transformers....it's a must buy.
Super:
This is a great movie! Awesome special effects and brings back great memories of the cartoons from childhood!
Amazing!:
This movie is amazing. I would have to say it is one of the best Blu-ray movies that I have seen so far. The effects stand out and pop just like the did in the movies and the bonus features, Blu-ray live, etc... are well worth it. Whether you are a fan of Transformers or not this is a great action-packed movie which is fun (in my opinion) for the whole family.
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