Alison and I saw Transformers a few weeks ago. Here are my thoughts.
What I liked:
- It was great fun to see my childhood toys up on the big screen, albeit in modified form.
- The visual effects in the film were spectacular.
- Peter Cullen turned in a solid performance as the voice of Optimus Prime.
- A surprising amount of backstory and motivation was given to the main human character, Sam.
- Many plot points were just stupid.
- All the "science" in the film was ridiculous.
- The dialog, especially Prime's, was melodramatic.
- The film was very self-serving, from a species point of view. By this I mean that (a) the main character was human rather than an Autobot, (b) a human gets to save the day, and (c) there were many cases in which Prime or another Autobot expresses admiration for humans. Ugh.
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