by Kronus Prime » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:11 pm
As a fan of Transformers since '85 and have seen the G1 cartoons as well as Japanese anime series like the Headmasters, and later Beast Wars, RID, Cybertron, etc., I thought the movie did a terrific job fleshing out the characters while giving us kickass action, while appealing to mass audience. I'm not a Michael Bay fan, and I only think a few of his movies were good (didn't like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, Bad Boys 2). However, I thought Bay did terrific job with this movie, although I dislike how he named Rumble "Davastator".
I know there are G1 purists who wanted the movie to be exactly like the cartoon series, and also those who wanted this movie to become a serious movie with extensive character development, but let's face it: it's still a movie about giant robots who transform, and there is no way to get rid of characters like Sam and just have Transformers dominate every frame. Were there plot holes? Yes. Is it perfect? No. But considering the subject matter and a movie based on a toy collection, and that it has to appeal to non-fans and critics alike, this movie delivered in spades.
I just hope the sequel (which is all but inevitable now), will give us new TFs like trichangers and gestalts; Transformers that you haven't seen in the first movie. I want Bay to kick it up a notch, and eliminate some of the problems from the first movie, and it'd be golden. With the ending of trilogy of Spider-man, Pirates, and X-Men, Transformers can become the next great trilogy of films, if they do it right.
Btw, I want the next movie to be a Empire Strikes Back-esque type of sequel, with Decepticon claiming victory. I don't like how Autobots only suffered 1 casualty, while Decepticons lost pretty much everyone. It shouldn't be so one-sided in this war of attrition.