Transformers: Changing It Up
If I used one word to describe this movie it would be: awesome. Watching cars, planes, military vehicles and even a boombox change into giant robots and beat the crap out of each other was fun to watch in the 80's when they were cartoons, and it's just as fun now when their computer-animated creations.
Long Story = Short: The Autobots (good guys) and the Decepticons (bad guys) have been fighting a civil war for ages. There's one device that could tip the scales to either side's favor (known as the All-Spark) but it's lost and the Transformers home planet is destroyed. Decepticon Leader Megatron goes looking for the All-Spark and finds it on Earth..but both get lost in the process. Fast-forwarding to present time, Autobots and Decepticons alike look for Megatron and the All-Spark, with now the fate of Earth in the balance.
Of course since they are on Earth, there have to be humans in this movie. Shia LeBeouf is pretty convincing as a modern-day Sam "Spike" Witwicky. Megan Fox plays the duel role of second-generation grease monkey and the object of Sam's desire. Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel play US soldiers who actually want to fight 20+ foot robots (and are actually somewhat sucessful). Rachael Taylor and Anthony Anderson play a code cracker and a hacker who try to help the Secretary of Defense (Jon Voight) figure out why driver less vehicles are disseminating the country. John Tuturro plays a shady "Man in Black" type, and Kevin Dunn and Julie Wright play Sam's ridiculously funny parents.
There plenty of humor (one-liners, visual gags, and even pee jokes) and tons of action (surely, this movie answers the question "can a giant robot do a cartwheel and launch two rockets as his target at the same time). I could have done without the forced love story between LeBeouf' Sam and Fox's Mikaela, and the thought that these guys were able to walk around unnoticed (until they started fighting each other, that is) is a tad far-fetched. But with Peter Cullen once-again voicing Optimus Prime, I can let those minor things slide.
If you want to see a good summer flick that isn't a sequel, change up and give "Transformers" a go.
Long Story = Short: The Autobots (good guys) and the Decepticons (bad guys) have been fighting a civil war for ages. There's one device that could tip the scales to either side's favor (known as the All-Spark) but it's lost and the Transformers home planet is destroyed. Decepticon Leader Megatron goes looking for the All-Spark and finds it on Earth..but both get lost in the process. Fast-forwarding to present time, Autobots and Decepticons alike look for Megatron and the All-Spark, with now the fate of Earth in the balance.
Of course since they are on Earth, there have to be humans in this movie. Shia LeBeouf is pretty convincing as a modern-day Sam "Spike" Witwicky. Megan Fox plays the duel role of second-generation grease monkey and the object of Sam's desire. Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel play US soldiers who actually want to fight 20+ foot robots (and are actually somewhat sucessful). Rachael Taylor and Anthony Anderson play a code cracker and a hacker who try to help the Secretary of Defense (Jon Voight) figure out why driver less vehicles are disseminating the country. John Tuturro plays a shady "Man in Black" type, and Kevin Dunn and Julie Wright play Sam's ridiculously funny parents.
There plenty of humor (one-liners, visual gags, and even pee jokes) and tons of action (surely, this movie answers the question "can a giant robot do a cartwheel and launch two rockets as his target at the same time). I could have done without the forced love story between LeBeouf' Sam and Fox's Mikaela, and the thought that these guys were able to walk around unnoticed (until they started fighting each other, that is) is a tad far-fetched. But with Peter Cullen once-again voicing Optimus Prime, I can let those minor things slide.
If you want to see a good summer flick that isn't a sequel, change up and give "Transformers" a go.
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