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Actor: Hugo Weaving, Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Shia LabeoufBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
DVD Reviews of Transformers
DVD Review: jaw dropping: stupidity and technical brilliance- a match made in heaven.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is the most ludicrous piece of idiotic nonsense ever created, and probably the most expensive. The dialog is a joke, the plot holes are as big as meteoric craters, the acting is completely uneven (although the two young leads did a great job), and the whole thing just makes no damn sense.
That being said, this is also one of the most visually impressive spectacles of all time, and it has to be seen to be believed. The sheer bravura of the action sequences, in which the camera weaves through the scenes as fast as the robots, is jaw dropping. The design of the robots, their movements and the detail that is packed into their bodies, is a technical achievement that boggles the imagination. The sound design is flawless. The seamless integration of the digital effects, traditional effects, actors and sets is never less than perfectly convincing.
The giant scale of this film is breathtaking. The fact that all this giant physicality is conveyed in a thoroughly credible, visceral-feeling way is an amazing accomplishment of human creativity and effort--and represents the current pinnacle of the craft of film making. It is hard to believe that it is even possible to construct moving images and sounds of this scale, complexity and believability.
Too bad it is all at the service of a pitifully simple-minded story and script- at some points the absurdity of the dialog and the hammy acting makes you embarrassed to even be watching. The technical brilliance required to create such a film is hard to reconcile with the staggeringly naive filmed presentation of the basic functioning of simple electronic devices such as computers, radios, etc. The views of human nature, of adolescent boy-girl relationships, of the US military, and of technology itself, that are represented in this film are so mind-numbingly banal and disgusting that one shudders to consider: do the film-makers know they are talking down to the audience? Or do they actually think people are stupid enough to watch this garbage with a straight face? Or, even more frightening: how many people ARE watching this with a straight face?
This movie represents a landmark for the human race: another milestone in our technical and creative ability to convey whatever stories our minds can dream. Unfortunately, it also represents yet another step backward in terms of the very basics of storytelling: character, plot, theme, dialog, acting. In other words...I can't wait for the sequel!!
DVD Review: Great flik!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like this type of movie, you'll love it. It's loads of fun and nothing better to watch it in then Blu Ray.DVD Review: Transformers
Summary: 5 Stars
Transformers on blu-ray is great. Bay did a wonderful job on bringing a childhood favorite to life. Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox did a break out job in their roles. Plus and the features that BD-Live adds new info which adds so much more to the movie. DVD Review: Maybe if I was twelve...
Summary: 2 Stars
I couldn't stop laughing at the end of this movie. I'm sorry to all you Transformers fans, but this movie is ridiculously terrible.
If this movie didn't attempt to offer some deep analysis of the human condition, if it simply let itself be another meaningless but somewhat entertaining "good vs. evil" movie, then I could perhaps give it a better review.
The absurdity of the final scene (I think it was the final scene) with the main good robot thingy talking about the human condition, the good and evil within humanity, sums up the entire movie. I'm sorry, but a movie can't pretend to have some deep meaning when it consists of these terrible qualities: reductionist, beyond-cliche images of "good" and "evil", incredibly shallow dialogue and themes, and robots that transform into cars.
Now, had Transformers been directed at pre-teens, I would not feel the need to ridicule it. But, as it is, Transformers is a favorite among the supposed "adult" crowd. And, if Transformers had stuck to what it is at the core, a silly and somewhat entertaining story of "good" vs. "evil", I could be a little more sympathetic. I still wouldn't like the movie, but I would be able to accept it for what it is.
But no, this movie goes over-the-top and ends up being something like a parody of itself.
DVD Review: Great for kids. Not so bad for adults.
Summary: 4 Stars
Growing up with these guys I was impressed with how they looked. The main character played by Shia LaBeouf was too annoying for me, but I know would be comical for the younger generation. Very entertaining and can't wait for the next in line.
Description of Transformers
###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################"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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