Transformers (12A)

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Tue Jul 24 2007

The cars – are they here to help us or destroy us? Not an idle question in these carbon-conscious times, and Michael Bay’s ’splosiongasmic ’botfest could, at a stretch, be parsed as a grand-scale id-fantasy of America’s doomed infatuation with the internal combustion engine: both goodies and baddies look sexy as hell, and both leave destruction in their wake. You could even tease an oil-anxiety subtext out of the film’s overseas settings: a spot of blowback in the Middle East and a salutary warning against exploratory polar digging.

As in the ’80s cartoon series/corporate promotional tool on which the movie is based, Earth is the battlefield for two tribes of ancient alien robots who can shape-shift into items of our technology. (They also seem to have developed a kind of robo-parkour.) The evil, spiky Decepticons and the friendly but, in this version, equally spiky Autobots are slugging it out for control of a magic Rubik’s Cube; caught in the middle is high-school kid Sam (Shia LaBeouf), who inadvertently picks up a battered Autobot at a secondhand car lot and develops an even bigger crush on it than he has on the girl from history class (Megan Fox).

Sprawling, hardware-heavy, gung-ho with a streak of cruel humour, ‘Transformers’ is a Michael Bay movie, all right. It’s also about as nimble as a 30-foot behemoth with fried navigation circuits, lunging and lumbering from misfiring comic set-piece to messy pitched battle, landing the occasional bullseye along the way. John Turturro is good value as a sleazy spook but you’ll search in vain for anything like characterisation elsewhere, especially among the robots themselves. Less than meets… you know.

Author: Ben Walters

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12A

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Fri Jul 27 2007

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144 mins

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this is bent

bob Thu Mar 21
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I acn`t belive so much money and special effects could be put into a film of such complete idiocy.

Douglas Mon Oct 10 2011
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totally shallow, stereoptypical characters with no internal logic but the effects were out of this world. worth watching just for that. gets your thing going.

toby Sun Oct 31 2010
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we were studing madia in english and watched this film for the CGI. im a girl and never really thought to watch it... how wrong i was it was brilliant action packed fast moving film all of the fun filled drama made it more intense. i new it took the director alot to make and a awfull lot to plan but i defonatly payed off.. cant waiit till the next one comes out =P

clliftyyy... Sun Jan 31 2010
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Great film people should like it yeah its cheesy but who cares when watching all the efeects and scenes makes it epic to watch ***** five star rating :)

Callum Mon Oct 19 2009
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I cant beleive people are raiting this film with 5 stars.. It is basically rubish.. full of cliches..trying to be funny.. Mfox is so dull.. and the plot is ridiculos.. I was expecting something better.. as the first one was really cool..

David Mon Jun 22 2009
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great film would watch 1,00000000,00000000 times

lazycrazy dog Fri Jan 23 2009
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Frankly I think your comment was disgusting. The idea of Transformers is a superhero-clichÃ©. The quips made by Optimus appeal to a younger audience, whereas the actings does for older people. It was a well put together film, because you sir are a flaming idiot. Go drink some bleach or set fire to your house while inside it; or drive your car into a wall at high speeds. Minus seating belt. Cunt.

Will Rothery Mon Oct 6 2008
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This was definitly film of 2007

Rikki Sat Jan 26 2008
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This good movie uuhhh Girl is fit uuuhhh Megatron cool uuuhh Need make second one uuhh

Sam Witwicky Wed Jan 9 2008
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