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Transformers’ action-comedy more than meets the eye |
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
It’s your typical story, boy gets car, car turns out to be alien robot sent to protect boy from evil robot invasion.
“Transformers” brings the excitement and simple story line that the summer movie lineup has been waiting for.
Even if you’re like me, and you haven’t been following the Transformer phenomenon since its beginnings in 1984, you can still quickly catch on to the plot line and enjoy this metal infested action-comedy.
So, the story line, for those of us who haven’t been following it since the ripe old age of three: Sam (Shia LaBeouf) picks out an old Camaro for his first car after an odd series of events draws him to it.
The car then starts communicating with Sam through the radio and helps him pick up his dream girl, Mikaela (Megan Fox).
Then, in a very humorous scene in which the car steals itself, Sam realizes that his car is, in fact, a robot.
Later in the movie the other friendly robots, or autobots, show up
unveiling the very recognizable Optimus Prime who formally introduces
Sam to his car, Bumblebee.
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Prime also informs Sam that he must help them stop the evil
Decepticons, led by Megatron, from finding the Allspark, a cube that
grants unlimited power to whoever possesses it, thus causing the
extinction of the human race.
Meanwhile, the secretary of defense (Jon Voight) is desperately running
a slew of hacker specialists to try and stop the deception foot
soldier, Starscream, from hacking into the top secret military files
and inserting a virus that will shut down the government’s computer
systems, which would leave the world defenseless to the attack.
“Transformers” does have the typical cheesiness that you find with the
comic book movie lineup, but, unlike others, it finds a perfect blend
of tacky robot conversation with clever comedy and an overall
enthralling story.
LaBeouf really shines in this film as Sam. His name has been all over
entertainment media outlets as the “next big thing” and his role in
“Transformers” tells the world why. He takes full advantage of his
quick witted, smart mouth character, only failing to convince me with
his ability to pick up on the robot lingo within seconds.
Fox’s character is typical for this type of movie. A pretty face with a
dark, surprising past, riding her good looks the entire length of the
film and failing to bring anything to her character.
The visuals were amazing and kept every eye glued to the screen despite
the two and a half hour length. It was nice to see more realistic
characters instead of the obvious computer generated ones from
“Spiderman” and “Fantastic Four.”
Michael Bay, responsible for such films as “Armageddon”, “The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre” remakes, and “The Island”, gets a bad rep from most
critics for his past directing jobs but “Transformers” more than makes
up for any flops he may be held responsible for in the past.
No matter what you may think of his directing abilities, Bay will be
laughing all the way to the bank with this hit film, and will continue
laugh when he begins working on Transformers 2, already being announced
on www.imdb.com.
Lindsay Craven is a senior journalism and advertising major from Pilot Mountain and is the Lifestyles Reporter.
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