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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
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Shia LaBeouf, Megan FoxDirector: Michael Bay
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Popcorn movie, Test disc for BD home cinema, Pure silly fun!,
By Mr. Blu (Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transformers [Blu-ray] [2007][Region Free] (Blu-ray)
First up thanks to Mr P whose review influenced my ordering this disc. I'll deal with the film then the technical geek stuff. I thought the film was huge fun, very entertaining although often very silly (but I think self-consciously and tongue-in-cheek a la "Iron Man"). The performances are all pretty good at the appropriate level, and I really liked Shia Labouef who I had otherwise only seen as a slightly annoying Indy Jr in "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull". He is funny and engaging, although I have no idea what this "channeling a young John Cusack" in the Amazon own review is supposed to be !?# This is not a P.T.Anderson or Lars von Trier film and no-one expects it to be, I hope. Just shift the brain a few gears down, or even into neutral, and fun is all but guaranteed.
On the technical side: wow! Absolute reference sound and vision. It is Dolby TrueHD and not DTS, in response to a query on the comments page, and I am not quite sure what Mr P meant about LPCM, this is in my view in no way superior to TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio and nothing to mourn for (the best PCM soundtrack I know is "Casino Royale", but the two Nolan Batman films have TrueHD soundtracks which are at the very least just as good). All images are super sharp and in best resolution, the CGI images always shine but the normal film scenes are also brilliant. This is absolutely on a level with "Casino Royale" or "Indy 4". The sound is not only crystal clear, detailed and full, but the management of surround effects is really well achieved. You really will be turning your head back to the surround speakers in near alarm at moments like the little robot sneaking around on Air Force One. And anyone here like bass? This film turns your subwoofer into a nuclear weapon. This film does not take itself at all seriously and it is not for people who take themselves seriously. But it is for people who take their home cinema technology seriously and want to see it shining at supernova levels. Buy it now!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential on Blu-ray,
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This review is from: Transformers [Blu-ray] [2007][Region Free] (Blu-ray)
Firstly I really think the film is fantastic. Action, comedy, romance and don't forget massive alien robots! The quality of acting is superb. Shia Labouf is brilliant oozing with my sort of comedy and conveyed perfectly "Bought a car, turned out to be an alien robot, who knew". Megan Fox is stunning (as always) and convincing in her part.
The transfer onto blu-ray is just awesome. The sound effects and quality is what I use as an audio benchmark for my system. The special effects are just as good with picture quality that is almost, and I really mean almost, as good as Casino Royal! Over all, one of my favourite films of all time made even better by blu-ray. If I could give it 6 stars I would! I recommend to anyone!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Picture - Poor story,
This review is from: Transformers [Blu-ray] [2007][Region Free] (Blu-ray)
I personally do not like the movie as such as the story is quite lame. However, I thought the CGI and the HD Footage in this movie really did its job and I have used the movie a couple of times to show off my HDTV at home.
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