Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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“Stay away, lad! That’s Prime’s fight!” — Kup, in the original 1986 Transformers animated movie. I just watched Michael Bay’s Transformers movie at the Gateway Globe Platinum Theater. Believe it or not, it’s even more of an abomination than everyone expected it to be — from jumpy editing to fake graphics to gibberish computerspeak to […]Click here to continue reading "Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!"...Transformers Movie Review: Optimus Prime was Robbed!
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THIS MOVIE MADE MY BRAIN HURT!
And let me explain why: It was like watching two movies at the same time:
1.) Transformers the Movie, a very enjoyable action/adventure flick, true to the spirit of the franchise and entertaining in its own right. Also includes light-hearted moments between the Autobots and their human friends Sam and Mikaela.
2.) Annoying Humans The Movie: lots of human characters get introduced and are seemingly really important at first but are then apparently forgotten by the writers, many of whom are horrible racial stereotypes. I know humans are a vital part of the mix because they give the audience someone to relate to and a feel for the scale of the Autobots and Decepticons, but that was established well with Sam Mikaela, without all of these “throwaway characters”. There are lots of really bad attempts at comedy here ranging from nosepicking and farting jokes that ONLY CHILDREN WOULD FIND FUNNY to conversations about masturbation which ARE REALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. Who was the intended audience? DRUNKEN FRAT BOYS? Because the drunken frat boys sitting behind me were the only ones in the theater laughing at most of the jokes. Sure you can try to appeal to
different demographics with comedy, but while you may get the vote of the Average Joe, you will likely lose both ends of the spectrum: Children and the “Cerebral” types. And being that this is a film based on an action figure line, I think it would have been a better choice to have made the humor a little more kid-appropriate.
All in all though, I don’t think anything needs to be added to this movie to make it better. There are a lot of things it could do without though. The visuals were AMAZING!!! And I as a video production student am rarely amazed. The freeway battle between Optimus and Bonecrusher was mind-blowing (but too short). So don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie. I just think I would have enjoyed a half hour less of it a lot more.
Huh-huh-huh! Seaman!
What I really don’t get from all the complaints against the political incorrectness of the jokes in this movie is as if this is the first time such jokes were ever seen in a film that is geared towards kids and young adults.
Animated cartoons from Shrek, Happy Feet, Ice Age and Madagascar all the way back to Aladdin have in one way or another been politically incorrect. And in the case of Sherk, they even go as far as rehashing and deconstructing all the beloved fairy tales, leaving kids of today bewildered on which story to believe, the one in Sherk or the fairy tales in their books.
Even supposedly innocent nursery rhymes have for decades been under scrutiny as they are allegedly peppered with gay and sexual undertones.
In Sesame Street, kids are still wondering what’s with Bert and Ernie. Why are two guys living together? Are they a gay couple?
And to think these nursery rhymes, movies and TV programs are tailor-fitted for kids, as opposed to Transformers which targetted an older segment which I’m pretty sure are not naive and won’t take such jokes seriously.
Now if one were to read interviews with Steven Spielberg, his original idea was to make this film a sort of homage to E.T. Boy meets alien, boy and alien resolve a conflict. The original setting for Transformers was heavily based in American suburbia.
Through the course of fleshing out the film, screenwriters Orci and Kurtzman and director Bay realized the movie is turning into a toy movie with is suburbia setting. This is the very thing they were avoiding from day one–to not make Transformers into a cartoon that just turned into a live action film.
And so they gave it an edgier treatment. Introduce some military guys, a secret government unit and some politically incorrect characters.
If the film stayed in its suburbia setting and all the protagonists were nice and noble, and all the antagonists were sinister and dead-serious but everyone were politically correct, then we might have watched another film. Something like Transformers in Pleasantville.
All in all, I think it’s easy to nitpick on these little stuff. But at the end of the day, I couldn’t even remember all those bad jokes. I could remember chuckling here and there but there was nothing in the film that gave me sleepless nights.
Nothing prompted me to write to Michael Moore and urge him to make a film exposing all the evil government-corporate conspiracies and the inappropriate racial and sexual undertones behind this movie. In short, I simply chilled out and had a good time.
Buffoons are not edgy.
Transformers movie was really good but not that good two problems no character design and sector 7 was a bunch of bullshit a waist of time it was there as an accuse not to show more of the transformers not show Megatron and Starscream go at it, not to get in the characters i mean who really felt sorry for Jazz when he got torn into two pieces Transformers tome reminds me of X-men 3
was it rush? probably not but in this case more action does not mean a better movie less is better for this movie.