Great, Superb, Mind boggling, Have to see it, HOW COME YOU!! Haven’t SEEN IT, these were the kind of responses I got from my friends when I asked them about this movie.
I HAD TO scale up my expectations and expected nothing less than what they said about this movie.
THANKFULLY a couple of hours before I met one of childhood friends, and he was one of the people with whom I have hours and hours of transformers, we were particularly fans of the movie and watched it numerous times, NOT Surprisingly HE SAID THE SAME THINGS ABOUT THIS MOVIE....BUT THEN ADDED SOME MORE.
"Dont expect an epic battle between the robots, prepare to be confused as to who firing on whom and who dies, Megatron death isn’t exactly epic either, AND THE CHICK IS SMOKING HOT", his words were a wakeup call for me, immediately my years of blockbuster experience kicked in and I had a new idea about what to expect from this movie.
Expectations are the key in this movie and this was what I expected.
1)Loads of cheesy dialogue, not all the pleasurable kind, but the kind that will instantly clog your arteries.
2)Loads of plot holes, a few of the kind that will instantly hit you, and most that will realise when someone else tells you about it, or you ponder over the events of the movie.
3)Total and complete demographic appeasement, America means the world, the mandatory black and jap soldiers, the courageous soldier who dies, the president, the chocolaty boy, the hot girl etc.
4)The 2 hour plus length so as to fully incorporate the funny, romantic, action, drama etc etc scenes.
5)The creative liberty with the original storyline, and this case since the transformers themselves were created to promote toys, loads of product placement.
5)AND MOST OF ALL THE MIND BOGGLING SPECIAL EFFECTS.
I was right on all counts save for some minor inconsistencies, it wasn’t the president but the chief of something, the dialogues were not only super cheesy but some scenes like the capture of bumblebee was was brain hemorrhage, AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE NOT ONLY MIND BOGGLING THEY WERE DIZZYING, SINCE HARDLY A PENNY WAS SPENT ON THE ACTORS MOST OF THE 150 MILLION HAS GONE IN CREATING EFFECTS THAT WILL CERTAINLY LIFT THE Oscar, and so overwhelming were they in fact that for the entire duration of the movie you forget all else and are completely mesmerised.
You could actually feel the impact(helps when your in a great theatre) and couldn’t help but be blown away by loads of the scenes, the scorpion chase scene was actually scary.
Megan Fox was not only smoking, she was one fire, I almost had a Heart attack when I saw her sliding onto Shias lap. BESIDES THE Occasional BUT periodic CHEESY SCENE SHE WAS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD DISTRACT YOU FROM THE SPECIAL EFFECTS.
Technically this film was superb as indeed it should be, there is no doubt, that this movie has taken CGI to a new level.
Humour was a major plus point and the diverse nature of the jokes were the other high point in the film.
In all a highly flawed film, BUT ONE THAT EXCELS IN ONE DEPARTMENT SO MUCH that it makes this WHOLE MOVIE completely enjoyable throughout.
Please watch this film BY PAYING PREMIUM RATES IN A GOOD THEATRE (said it after a long time), just do it with the right expectations, just don’t expect Godfather type cinema.
-s loads of SUPER CHEESY SCENES, tons of plot holes and flaws, unepical final battle (budget, demographics, and test audiences maybe?).
+/-s typical blockbuster.
+s SPECIAL EFFECTS, SPECIAL EFFECTS, MEGAN FOX, SPECIAL EFFECTS, MEGAN FOX, HUMOUR, MEGAN FOX, HUMOUR, HUMOUR, SPECIAL EFFECTS......
total 8/10 (i had so much fun anything lower would have been a crime, at the same time there is no doubt this movie could have been much better, some of the cheesy scenes are still vivid in my memory, (must not ramble about the I see good in the humans scene and the human taking down a decepticon when armies could not, Megatron came thousands of years ago to use earths machines in the fight on Cybertron hmmm I can see how bullock carts would take down Optimus Prime etc etc).