Transformers Movie

Some would say I’m stubborn. OK- a lot of people would say that. When I have an opinion, I’m pretty dead set in it. But my mind can be changed. Going into Transformers I wasn’t expecting spectacular. I wasn’t expecting crap either. I was expecting mediocrity. Boy was I wrong. The Transformers Movie was awesome in a lot of ways. There are some things you need to ultimately need to get past, because it is a cartoon turned movie, but overall it’s a great movie.

I think is is mainly due to the fact that the plot is fairly complex and it all comes together in the end. There are 2 major story lines with sub stories in each: The Military encounter with a Decepticon, and our main character, Sam Witwiky’s encounter with the Autobots. The movie doesn’t just focus on the kid’s overcoming whatever he needs to overcome to make things happen. It’s focus is on the greater story of everyone helping the Autobots save the Earth. And the back story of why they came to Earth isn’t half bad either.

The acting was good. My benchmark for this usually is how emotionally invested I am in the characters. If I don’t really care what happens to them, I’m probably not that into the movie due to bad acting. Not the case here. From the moment the movie starts, we are introduced to Captain Lennox of the US Army, played by Josh Duhamel and I was hooked. This guy was a bad ass. Duhamel did a great job of playing him. Of course, Shia LaBeouf also did a great job as Sam, an awkward high school student who gets thrown into this mess. He was also pretty funny. Megan Fox was also great as the leading lady in the film.

I don’t think I need to mention the visual effects, but let me say that they are stunning. The robots looked awesome, the fight scenes were really cool. These and the aforementioned are the reasons I could overlook the somewhat lame or over dramatic parts of the movie. I’ve also read criticism that all this movie amounts to is a ‘pro-military, pro-car’ film. I see nothing wrong with that. The movie shows how brave our military can be, and even though this is a fictional story I think the underlying message is still there. And what reasonable person is anti-military? Or anti-car for that matter? I like both of those things.

All in all it was a very entertaining film, full of explosions, hacking, a couple of beautiful girls and giant robots. There is really nothing more you could ask for in a summer movie.