Time for a belated review, I saw the movie at the end of July but didn't come round to actually write anything before now.
Here it goes.
Summer blockbuster could be considered as a genre in itself.
Like most genres, it has its rules.
It has to be fun. It has to blow a lot of stuff up. The plot shouldn't make any sense (it makes it funnier).
Like other in genres you got good summer movies and bad summer movies. And sometimes, when a good director gets down to it, the genre can be transcended to make something more.
I mean, that's just cinema.
Anyway if anyone is to be the king of summer movies, that person has to be Michael Bay.
I have to say that I am a late admirer of the guy and I admit that I still don't buy into his "early" stuff. I saw the end of The Rock (admittedly 1 of his best films) the other day and let's say that it was a lot worse than I remebered it.
Yet the insanely dumb fun of Bad Boys 2 was too much for me not to enjoy and I thought The Island was a solid (although maybe a bit unoriginal) Sci-Fi movie. I liked it, that's all that counts for me.
Anyway whether you like his movies or not I think you have to give him that: he KNOWS how "to make that shit look good"... I mean the guy could probably film a guy with diarrhoea desperately trying to reach the toilets and make it the most badass thing you've ever seen... Filters and yellow light and all.
All that to say that although I had no expectations of a Transformers movie (yet another stupid adaptation coming out of the current Hollywood frenzy to adapt anything they can find), when I heard that Bay was involved I couldn't help but think that maybe that could be an interesting thing. Why not?
So what's the verdict then?
Well Transformers delivered for me on everything I was expecting and then some.
Story: don't care. The stupidest the better here.
My biggest surprise was on how succesful the comedy aspects of the movie came out.
It's actually funny!
It probably has a lot to do with the leading man (Shai LaBeouf, whom I had never seen on screen so far). He can deliver some seriously corny lines without you actually noticing. That's how good he is.
So casting-wise you got some cameos from great actors (Turturro and Voight), hot chicks (Megan Fox!!) and him. Spot on.
Then you got the robots. It is really amazing how good they look. Their updated design is great, they move graciously despite their apparent weight and like they actually are in the picture.
And then you get the action and on that aspect you know you can trust Bay to blow thing up like no one.
I was just a bit anoyed at the end that the Optimus Prime / Megatron fight was so "cut", there are times were you actually don't really see what's happening and you WANT to see. I mean it's cool!
But it didn't spoil the experience for me.
So yeah, great fun.
You could wonder how much brain damage it gives you but certainly less than an alcoholic night out...
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