Trailer Review: Transformers

Trailer: Quicktime via Yahoo Movies

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel

Director: Michael Bay

Release Date: 28 June 2007 (Australia)

Rating: Not Yet Rated

First Impressions: We all remember the theme song… don’t deny it. To sum up my feelings I think I wet myself from sheer excitement when I heard they were making this movie. Yes, it must be a generational thing. I grew up watching this on TV in the wee hours of the morning when I was younger and I absolutely loved it. The original and the best. It’s a shame about the quality of cartoons these days. It’s so bad they have to keep bringing back the classics from the past. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anyone? Classic kickass cartoons! Now those were the days. All you see on TV now is crappy jap shit with people who speak too fast and ‘powerup’ or some super saiyan shit. Anyway I’ll continue that rant another day, back to the topic. As you can probably tell my expectations for this movie are extremely high and from what I’ve read it’s shaping up to be a cracker of a movie.

After Trailer: The trailer certainly lives up to all the hype. Although personally, I think all the transformers are a little overdone and I’m a bit worried that Michael Bay might do a royal job of screwing this up given his track record (The Island, Pearl Harbor anyone?). Although he has given us Bad Boys I & II so lets hope its as good as that. Also why the hell isn’t Bumblebee a VW Beetle? What the hell is the deal with that? He’s fucking up the system man! Even so, the movie has got me really pumped up especially with the actors who are in it. I was surprised to find Josh Duhamel (the awesome dude from the show Las Vegas) and Megan Fox were in it! That’s all the reason I need to go see it! In any case the trailer was done very well, depending on which you watched. At the start of one, the main dude thought his dad was giving him a Porsche. What a toolbag. Anywho, judging from the hand holding scene, it appears there will even be a love story behind all the carnage and action. It also does well to depict a good vs evil motif which is so strongly evident throughout the franchise history, you know, Autobots vs Decepticons. Unfortunately the jokes are not funnier than you acted. Like as if these ‘robots’ are from Japan you toolbag.

Man Quotient: 7.37 (Derived from a complex formula of explosions and babes)

Chick Flick Quotient: -8.95 (Derived from a complex formula of emotional scenes and Hugh Grant)

Final Recommendation on Trailer: All the trailers are awesome. Definitely pumps up the viewer and would make anyone remotely interested want to go see the movie. Make sure you watch these for their awesomeness.

Final Recommendation on Movie: I’m really glad they didn’t make this a kids movie and catered for the generation for which should be the target, the late 80’s / early 90’s kids who grew up with this stuff. Also did I mention Megan Fox is in it? Looks great, 100% recommended.