Transformers – more that meets the eye
I love when I make a prediction and it comes true, now if only I could predict those winning lottery numbers. “Transformers” blew up the big screen this past weekend. Since it’s opening on Wednesday, it has grossed $201 million dollars and is slated to be the second largest opening for a movie that comes out on Wednesday, second only to last years “The Dark Knight”, which grossed 203 million.
The Decepticons are back to their plot to gain world domination and unfortunately, Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is preventing them from doing this. They need to get into his brain, literally, to find out what he has had imprinted there after accidently touching a shard of the cube from the first movie. Sam is trying to live a normal life,heading out for college and leaving behind girlfriend, Mikaela (Megan Fox) and hot little car/Autobot Bumblebee, in the process.
As the one part of the story unfolds, we find out that the military and the Autobots, lead by Optimus Prime and Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel), are working together to hunt down the Decepticons that have inhabited the Earth searching for “something”, which turns out to be an ancient ship that the first Transformers came to the planet on. One which allow “The Fallen” to achieve the domination that they desire.
The new Transformers that are introduced are entertaining, including the “Twins” that are primarily there for the laughs. The supporting cast is great and they keep you interested, particularly John Turturro returning as Agent Simmons and Ramon Rodriguez as Sam’s college roommate/internet hacker/conspiracy theorist Leo Spitz. Before seeing the movie, I heard from someone that had seen a sneak preview of it that there was a lot of little “shout outs” to other movies and I did find myself distracted at some points by these little homage’s and what movie they came from: The girls in college giving the dreamy looks at the professor such as the scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to the elder Transformer “guiding” the good guys as Ben Kenobi would have in the “Star Wars” universe. They did a great job of keeping it current with a hilarious reference to swine flu and the President that is opposing the Autobots actually being our current president, Barrack Obama.
At two and a half hours, the movie was a little long and drawn out. The beginning of the movie drags quite a bit in parts to get to the point that we are all waiting to see – the battle. Once the battle happens it is a nonstop ride until the end of the movie, but a little too much getting to the point. I took my six year old nephew and he was kept captivated until maybe the last ten minutes and then he sighed and asked if it was almost over. Overall I think the movie lived up to the hype bestowed upon it and was definitely worth the money spent seeing it.
I would give it 
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It was a good movie for the action parts and the special effects. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are truly a great team as well as amazing on their own.
It was long, a little too long. And there are holes in it, but for an action movie, it was good.
What I am sad about is “My Sister’s Keeper” coming in 5th. I didn’t get to see it yet, but will hopefully do so this weekend. I think they chose a bad time for it to come out…it is lost in the shuffle of the *big* movies.
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I have heard so many mixed reviews of this film that I don’t know what to think now. Some hated it while others raved about it. Great review! You got me thinking.