Transformers - The Movie 2007.

Transformers 2007 Movie Trailer




Transformers Theme by Black Lab: full video


Greetings all Transformers fans... I'm sure by now everyone of you Tf fans have watched the Mike Bay "Transformers" live action movie atleast once by now. Some of you might have watched it more than a few times :)



Frankly speaking...I've been dreading this movie eversince i first saw the designs for the bots last year. I've done my fair share of the bashing bcoz the bots r just way too FUGLY for me to handle. Mike Bay insists on the concept that the Bots are "Aliens" so they are not meant to have "Human Facial Features"...

Hmm... i wonder if he's ever come face to face with an "Alien' before... becoz the Bots still generally have 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 nose and 1 mouth. Hmm.. looks pretty human to me, don't u think??

Eventually..i got over the reality that nothing is gonna change no matter how much bashing from the fans Mike Bay got... He was adamant with his vision.. hey, more power to u for believing in your vision dude!! ;P Actually, the whole look and concept finally sank in as the movie draws closer.. Heck, i swore that i won't go watch it bcoz i was so disgusted with the look of the Bots. But in reality..i am itching inside to see just how good they look in the actual finished product. But more importantly... i was hoping against hope that atleast the story/script for the movie was good.

I was pretty patient about watching the movie.. as i finally went and watch it on the 3rd week after it's debut. Mainly bcoz tickets for the show r sold out..it's crazy!!! Shows r sold out up till 2am on weekends!!! So ok..i was finally in the cinema and as the show starts... i find myself entertained by the whole visual feast of eye candies. But that's the bad part... u know how a kid would gorge on all his or her candy after trick or treating on Halloween??.. U get a massive sugar rush then u get sick of it. It's all eye candy and no substance.

The story/script was simplistic at best... I dunno why do i ever put so much hope on Hollywood Directors who takes on iconic characters from either a Comic book or cartoon and turn em into a big budget movie. they always screw things up by wanting to leave their mark on the movie they r making. it's not like there isn't enough history behind the whole Transformers mythos... Mike bay had to leave his "Creative Touches" on it.. pfft!!!

No doubt about it.. the whole show was entertaining.. but half the time u don't know who is fighting who. There just isn't enough character development for the bots and their names are not spoken enough to make a connection. All you see are huge hulking bots beating the crap out of eachother. Plus they were moving so frickin fast and since the bots body design aesthetics are somewhat of a shamble of moving parts n wires n not flat solid... that makes it all the more hard to see em. the whole show was a flurry of moving bots beating the crap out of eachother.

What irritates me the most is... the movie is called "THE TRANSFORMERS"... not "Teenage Kid Burning Loins"!!! More than half the show is wasted on Sam's ( Shia LaBeouf ) hormonal explosion on Mikaela ( Megan Fox ). Honestly, there seems to be so many loopholes in the movie..

- The bots were leisurely walking on top the roof of the secret base where Megatron and the "All Spark" cube was kept.. Aren't they abit too heavy to be all standing on top of the roof?? Won't it collapse??

- How come Josh Duhamel's character trust Sam so readily about the whole Autobot and Decepticon war and supports him on the need to find and free Bumblebee??

- Ok..i asked this before - Why are all the bots brought to live by the "All Spark" cube ended up being like maniacal Decepticons instead of bringing Autobots to life?? The answer i got was... All machinery/technology was derived from the reverse technology from Megatron DNA??? Now this is just weird... so all technology n machinery are supppose to be EVil?? LOL

- Prime was a major wuss fighting Megatron... maybe Mike Bay been watching way too much recent TF series where prime is often not a match when fighting Megatron... Nothing like the G1 Prime at all..

- The ULTIMATE "Castration" of Optimus Prime was how he was robbed of the honor of defeating his age old nemesis by himself. Megatron had to be offed by "Sam"!!! What an American concept... a young all American boy defeat a world threat and save the world... n the fact that his name is "Sam" was a coincident to the whole "Uncle Sam" concept of being "All American" DUH!!!

All in all... as a movie of pure entertainment and eye candy..it scores a resounding 8 out of 10 stars. But story wise, i think a 6th gradder can write an essay with more depth this this... it's a 5 out of 10 stars and that's being generous.. afterall, it's still Transformers.

Transformers Movie Toys Commercial



The hype and demand for the Transformers Movie toys locally is just insane!!! Before the movie hit.. the toys were everywhere. I could see figs like Jazz, Bumblebee and so forth in toy n department stores. Once the movie hits... shelves housing anything remotely related to "Transformers" was swept clean.. even older shelf warmer Transformers toys!!!

Up till now, shelves are still swept clean the moment new stocks came in and the scalpers have snapped up everything as soon as they r restocked and very soon, u see those sold out toys making their appearances at "Ebay" at 2 to 3 times their retail price.. Ecks!!!!

I am wondering when the whole craze will die down as "Hasbro" is well known for reissuing and repainting things to hell and flooding the market with shelf warmers. Wonder when the day would come when a scalper would look at a shelf warmer prime or Bumblebee figure in a toy/department store and say to himself.. "Damn..now what am i gonna do with the 20 BB figures i have in my store room?" LOL

The whole TF craze have gone to an all time high in the "Madness" meter... everything and anything is being made with the TF logo on it..i'm wondering when i would actually see TF men's n women's underwear and even toilet papers with the TF logo's on em LOL!!!

well, However u put it.. LOVE it or HATE it... Transformers - The Movie ( 2007 ) by Mike Bay have officially become a part of the TF history... I guess we will just have to live with it and hope for a better storyline for the sequel!!!


Cheers!!!
N_M