Our Review
I am 28 years old and as such I remember the Transformers first time around. I watched the cartoons, had the toys, in fact I was what I like to call a proper "Transformers" child.
Now whenever they make live action films based on cartoons/comics, there is only ever two outcomes, the film stinks (The Hulk) or it absoultely kicks ass, and thank god this film KICKS ASS.
We are talking about over 2 hours of none stop action, some of the most impressive CGI you will have ever seen, and a decent plot too.
This film will make you cry, it will make you laugh (Sams happy time ) it will make you wet your pants in pure adreneline packed action.
I have seen some great films this year, from the newly released Die Hard 4, to Fantastic 4, from The Condemned to Pirates 3, from Shrek 3 to SPiderman 3. Let me state right here and right now, this film catagorically kicks all of their combined backsides so far out of the field it is not even funny.
Transformers has some hilarious moments, whether it is a 50 foot tall Optimus Prime trying to hide from Sams parents, to Sams parents embaressing Sam to cringeworthy degrees.
It has action scenes that will leave you breathless.
I simply cannot overstate how amazing this film is.
Go and watch it at the cinema, then go watch it again, then again, then buy it on DVD. It really is that good.
Truly awesome film, and the first film ever to get a BeenToTheMovies.com 10/10
Movie Details
In 2003, the Beagle Mars Rover was launched. We were told that it crashed. It's final transmission was classified top secret.
It was the only warning we were given. Now the dueling alien races of the Autobots and the Decepticons have brought their battle to Earth and the future of humankind is hanging in the balance. It's their war, but it's our world!.
In the Arctic Circle during the 1800s, Captain Archibald Witwicky chips away at a massive sheet of ice, only to break it and fall into an abyss, landing on a robotic hand partially buried in the ice.
He finds the eyes of Decepticon leader Megatron staring back at him, who burns a map showing the location of the life giving Allspark into Witwicky's eyeglasses.
These are handed down to his descendant, Sam, in the present day. Elsewhere, Decepticon Blackout attacks a United States Air Force base in Qatar in the present day, grabbing and absorbing information from a computer whilst he destroys the base and deploys Scorponok. Scorponok chases Captain Lennox and his Special Ops team in the desert and in a village, when Lennox makes a phone call to The Pentagon, who send a jet to fight off the Decepticon.
Sam Witwicky buys his first car, which happens to be the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee helps Sam to gain Mikaela as his girlfriend. The Autobots come looking for Archibald's glasses, whilst hiding in Sam's yard, and the nefarious Sector 7 comes to invade Sam's house.
The film eventually concludes with a battle that begins at the Hoover Dam and concludes in Los Angeles as Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Megatron face each other.
Cast:
Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox as Mikaela
Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime
Hugo Weaving as the voice of Megatron
Josh Duhamel as Lennox
Tyrese Gibson as Epps
Zack Ward as Donnelly
John Turturro as Simmons
Keith David as the voice of Barricade
Jon Voight as Secretary of State Keller
Kevin Dunn as "Sparkplug" Witwicky
Julie White as Mrs. Witwicky
Rachael Taylor as Maggie
Bernie Mac as Bobby Bolivia
Travis Van Winkle as Trent
Anthony Anderson as Glenn Ross Dygert
