Transformers Movie: OMG to the nth power!

If you grew up in the eighties, you'd have prefected the craft of drawing their logo onto every flap, inside cover, or armrest of your school folder, notebook, and school chair. You'd have owned or at least drooled over an action figure version of the mighty robots. You would know or have at least heard of the fabled energon cube and how it looked like. In an instant or without even being requested, you could do your rendition of the sound these machines make when they "transform."

The moment I saw the movie trailer from a few months back, I made a resolve to watch the shit out of this movie on its first screen day. Tickets were booked via sureseats and rest was frickken history!

If you notice, there aren't much speaking parts for the robots in the trailers so it left much to be looked forward to on the movie. Would they even talk? You bet! Optimus Prime's voice, which I only much later found out, was done by the same dude behind the animated series, Peter Cullen. Reason enough to leave me feeling very nostalgic.

From the crisp images to the appropriate soundtrack, intricately complex CGI animation, believable action scenes, hot leading lady, plausible plot, and the HUGE final battle scene, this movie assaulted every aspect of my hard-to-please-and-perennially-criticizing inner geek.

On TV, from the footage of the Transformers press conference in South Korea, Michael Bay told that he intended for the film to appeal to the non-fan as well as the fan. When asked if there are plans of any sequels, he said that it all depends on the powers-that-be but he's up to it. Booyah!

I enjoyed the film immensely and I plan to watch it again and again and again.

Oh, and I have posted the following tracks at the man-blog forums about a week ago. Enjoy!

Labels: Movies, Music, Opinions, Review, TV

posted by Fritz @ 8:25 PM