Thursday, July 2, 2009
Transformers
Just got home from seeing Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, or as I like to call it, Transformers 2. I was HUUUUUGE into Transformers when I was a kid. I had tons of the toys, I watched the cartoon and I was furious when they killed all the old cool Transformers in the cartoon movie so they could shamelessly sell a whole new line of toys. I enjoyed the first movie. Hearing Peter Cullen's voice was just about all I needed to make the movie cool. It didn't hurt that the special effects were incredible. Bumblebee, Ironside, Starscream, Jazz (rip), Megatron (though I wish they would used a voice closer to the original)... good times. I liked it a lot, I just wanted more. But really, any kid that loved Transformers as much as I did would always find something they wanted changed.
I wasn't dying to see the new movie but I must say, again, that I was definitely entertained. After hearing the barrage of terrible reviews I was expecting an awful film. I guess I'm not really sure what critics were expecting... this isn't high drama or an excuse for academy award winning acting. It was non-stop explosions, fights, transformations and thrills. That's kinda all I expected. Just hearing Optimus Prime...love it. I liked that Soundwave was in this one too but again with the voice! C'mon, throw a fan a bone. At first all the goofy characters were a little off-putting but the comic relief later in the movie offered some nice laughs. So, despite Shia Labeouf's involvements in these films, they've been fun. Now if I could just have a phone that turned everyone's voice into Peter Cullen's, now that would be rad!
