I'm Emiliano from He-Man.org!
I live in Sicily, Italy and I went to see the movie at the Taormina Film Festival, so I thought it was nice to stop here at the site that supperted the He-fans and share the experience!
Let me start with just one word:
WOW!
It really surpassed all my expectations!
It's an awesome movie and it's totally Transformers.
I was so worried it was going to be just about alien monters from outher space: it isn't! The TF ARE characters!
The talk, they act, they are recognizable!
But let me start from the beginning.
We arrived in Taormina and we spent the morning in front of the theater where they were doing a prescreening for the press, hoping to get a glimpse of the movie or Bay and Shia.
But they arrived only around 1:00 PM.
We dared enough to enter the exclusive and well guarded hotel they were in and we watched the photo call with Michael Bay, Shia Lebeouf and Lorenzo Dibonaventura (one of the producers). Hasbro was giving away Leader Class Primes, to the press but we scored only one.
We stayed around while they were doin the press conference and later we joined the film festival cocktail.
We had chance to meet Dibonaventura, he actually came straight to us to talk and thank us for coming!
http://www.giocattolivecchi.com/zoom.asp?img=upload/w_forum.aspx?id=40662///pic=dscn0902.jpg///forum=forum_news
At night, we entered the beutiful ancient Greek Theater were we had very good seats!
After a brief cerenmony, the movie was introduced by Bay, Shia and Lorenzo on the stage and then a huge lasershow took place!
It was so awesome to see the giant Autobotot logo forming on screen in front of 5000 people in such a beautiful place!
You can see the theater here:
http://www.taorminafilmfest.it/2007/download/e-brochure2007.pdf
Then the movie stated and with the help of one of the best soundscape of the world, it totally blown us away!
We applauded many times during the movie!
Honestly, it's action and explosions all along, but that doens't mean it's bad.
It's a simple and clean storyline with fun twists (I laughed A LOT) and awesome characters!
Shia is great and I LOVED Turturro!
Bumblebee is.. well Bumblebee at his best.. and being a robot he's allowed to do something you would never expect in a movie! Just see it and you'll know what I mean!
Overall it was a great experience and it has been a honor to be part of it.
And I'm totally convinced children will love the movie. It's going to do great!
Feel free to ask me questions if you have any!
