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Michael Bay's film based on the classic toys grossed $306
million in theaters.
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"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?"
deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's
rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the
sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is
the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating
action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs.
the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is
caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which
has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named
Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing
transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back
again, are stellar.
Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this
cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans
of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie
with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost
Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The
actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are
uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S.
Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight,
as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head;
and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently
unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to
Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the
wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live
Transformers! --A.T. Hurley
On the DVD
The special edition of Transformers is packed with extras (and
more than a few product placements for Hasbro). The entire second
disc is devoted to featurettes on aspects of making the technical
tour-de-force--and the land mines involved in tinkering with a
beloved '80s franchise. Executive producer Steven Spielberg is
very much a part of the proceedings, from his introductory
comments ("I think everybody likes the idea of taking something
you're familiar with and turning it into something you're not so
familiar with--like an 18-wheeler become Optimus Prime") to
mentions of his films that influenced this one, like E.T. and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Director Michael Bay is b and entertaining as he talks about
his initial reluctance to take on the project, his indoctrination
at "Transformers U" at Hasbro, and his enthusiasm for
guerrilla-style action filmmaking. Star Shia LaBoeuf says, "He is
the est action director" out there, and there's plenty of
evidence here to support that. Other great highlights include
features on how key scenes were , including the
heart-pounding desert battle and the shootout in the streets of
downtown L.A.--adrenaline-pumping stuff, even without the
Transformers CGI'd in. --A.T. Hurley
More Than Meets the Eye
The Original Movie (
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Transformers Mania (
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The Soundtrack ( /gp/product/B000QFAGDA/ref=d_ap_transformers_3
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