Movie Review: Transformers


More entertaining... and shorter... than King Kong.

Yep. More entertaining and shorter than the giant gorilla. And, suffered form the same lack of scale. Sometimes, the robots were appropriately scaled. Other times, they were just far too big.

But, I enjoyed it. Two and a half hours went by, and the holes in the plot weren't spectacularly horrible. I mean, OK, boy meets girl. Boy buys car. Boy gives girl a ride home. Car takes over, winds up at Lovers' Point. Car pretends to be broken. Girl gets out to walk home. Car starts up again. Car turns into robot to protect boy. It's an old story... probably left over from some Romanian legend about bloodsucking half-demons.

Newton's laws of physics don;t apply to computer animated objects. And that is a good thing. Conservation of mass and energy? Who needs it? Way too much metal on the robots than the mass and density of the vehicles they pretend to be can have.

And, except for Bumble Bee, none of the good guys look like good guys.

But, it's worth the ticket price. I'll give it 7 gallons of Premium in a 10 gallon tank.

Posted: Sun - July 8, 2007 at 10:46 PM      

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