Transformers (2007)

For some reson, my BD player cannot play this disc

For some reason, my BD player only can play this disc once a while but no problem with other discs. Odd enough!! October 6, 2008

Awesome

Excellent Video and Audio. I played mine on a Playstation 3 console. It's just awesome October 5, 2008

Great special effects, but lame show.

The visuals in the movie are awesome! The movie looks great on Blu-Ray. The character development was horrible. The plot was weak, and I was hopping for something more. Would recommend for the special effects but not for the story. Some parts are spectacular, like the intro at the Soccent Qatar airforce base, but as a whole the show does not deliver. October 5, 2008

It's gotta be the blu-ray

I was happy with the regular dvd because it's a great movie, until I saw it on the blu-ray and could see the difference in quality. October 5, 2008

Do Yourself a Favour, Watch It on Mute

Okay, to begin, I enjoyed the Transformer toys and cartoon as a child but was much more of a D&D and fantasy fan than the whole robot thing. So I did watch the cartoon and I knew the major players in the Transformer universe. Like many of the other reviewers, I recongize that Michael Bay is a pox on humanity. He could turn the most epic, heart stopping work of fiction into a "babes and blast" fest. Even in a Vin Diesil or Van Damme film, there is still something of a plot and dialogue. In this, the viewer literally lives from one moment of action to the next because 1) the characters are flat and one dimensional 2) the dialogue is either hideous or nonexistent and 3) I don't think anyone was even trying to make this into anything more than a big screen video game. If that's what you want, then mazel tov and go for it.
What's wrong with the characters? Well, I thought the robots were cool and they had much more personality than the humans, and I'm sure for the fans that should be enough, but I actually like to see more than just special effects when I pay an arm and a leg at the cinema. This film follows the standard classic little worm turned screenwriter scenario: dorky guy falls for the hottest girl in school, but she likes wealthy and/or athletic equally hot guys (for this, of course, the chick is portrayed as being shallow, but why is Shia not equally shallow? After all, he didn't chase after Fox because he loved her poetry. Note to young people: shallow guys=normal, shallow chicks=heartless shrews). What is Shia to do? Look for an equally dorky but nice girl and love her for herself? Hey, we're in a Bay film. There literally are no even average looking women (I'm dead serious. The computer chick looks like a young Rachel Hunter. And I'd like to ask about the name "Fox"; do you actually have to be hot to be issued that name because I have yet to see an unattracive Fox in the media). Look, I don't have any problem with hot chicks. In fact, I'd love it if the American media were more like European and allowed topless scenes on television and such, but could Bay use something other than Playboy for his female casting?
And to Shia: God, that kid annoys me. Always has, always will. He is supposed to be the little heart of gold guy for whom we all rote, but his schuckiness constantly comes through, and you can see exactly the jerk who you know he really is. He's extremely bad looking, has little talent, and his voice causes me pain. The rest of the humans ranged from unbelievable (the model who happens to be the top computer programmer in the world), over used stereotype (the funny black guy hacker,hot chick mechanic), and the grating (the FBI agents, the cutesy parents). Of course, for sheer annoyance, Shia takes the crown again.
If you can watch this film on mute and fast forward through all the human stuff then raise the film up to five stars because the robots and the fight scenes were really good. Yes, they modernized the cars and such for today's audience, but it's still pretty true to the classic robots. One thing I must ask, philosophically, to the Transformer audience: if the All Spark created all Tranformer life, then who created the All Spark? Theists have this same problem with the question of God, and I think there's even more of an issue of this with AS. Overall, humans and dialogue=1 star; Transformers themselves=5, so decide for yourself if it's worth seeing. October 5, 2008

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