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Transformers
Genre: Action/Adventure/Science
Fiction
Rated: PG-13
Directed
by: Michael
Bay
Starring: Shia
LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson,
Jon Voight, John Turturro
Released by: DreamWorks
In
Short: Action junkies and fans of shape-shifting
toys will love this over-the-top tale of
alien robots battling for control of the
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Kablammy!
Transformers Blasts Off
by
Jenny Peters
The
anticipation has been so high for Michael Bay’s
latest film, you can almost feel it in the air, especially
if you happen to be around a group of teenage boys. For
that’s the main market for Transformers,
his balls-out telling of the shape-shifting robots’ arrival
on Planet Earth. But then there are all those adults
out there, both male and female, who grew up playing
with the toys of the same name and watching the animated
cartoons as well; both groups, and anyone else that loves
a slam-bang action flick will find complete satisfaction
with Transformers.
The
plot is pretty simple. A race of giant robots have
destroyed their own planet due to violent civil war;
now those warring factions – the Autobots and
the Decepticons – have come to earth in search
of a powerful talisman that has been hidden on the
planet.
As parallel stories unfold, the U. S. military struggles
to contain the robot threat, led by Jon Voight as the
Secretary of Defense, Josh Duhamel as a special forces
captain, and John Turturro as the head of a secret government
branch known as Section 7, while teenager Sam Witwicky
(Shia LaBeouf) gets his first car, which turns out to
be one of the good-guy Autobots in disguise.
But
this is a movie that isn’t really about a
complicated plot. It’s much more about the exciting
action sequences that start early and come fast and furious
throughout the two and a half hour adventure, and the
incredible Transformers, CGI creations that are visual
feasts. As they shape-shift from their hiding-in-plain-sight
disguises as cars and trucks into massive robots with
incredible abilities, you literally won’t believe
your eyes.
Be
warned, however. This is one LOUD film filled with
violent images (although to get the kid-friendly PG-13
rating, there’s no actual blood letting or horrific
deaths), so if sitting through an almost constant barrage
of intense sights and sounds is not your idea of an exciting
cinematic experience, stay home. Otherwise, Transformers is definitely a movie to be seen in a theater – the
bigger, the better for this fun ride.
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