The Mighty Mighty CK

I’ve got to admit: I’ve
been waiting for this one my entire life, and so did all the other +25 year
olds. I cannot forget those moments growing up with The Transformers,
especially mimicking the morphing sound effect every time the show was
mentioned. Of course, our thinking matrix wasn’t that developed yet to envision
a motion picture featuring The Autobots and The Decepticons because after all,
this is one hell of a complicated series, spawning numerous spin offs up top
the point that my sister hates it because she couldn’t tell the difference
between the good guys and the bad ones.

Maybe the hype is not as
big as Spider-Man 3 or Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End, but it was big
nevertheless. Okay, forget the build up; let’s go straight to the point.

The plot and storyline is
certainly not first class. Some part of it presents visible loopholes as well
as being comically not funny. Shia Labeouf did a creditable job front lining
the human cast although it’s not his best of works so far, while the rest of
the supporting casts fell short of expectation due to the lack of character
development given to them. The comical role give to Jon Voight, John Turturro
and Rachael Taylor at the end part of the movie really brought the standards
down. Megan Fox, although trying hard to carry her part of the role, didn’t
really shine as well as she should be, although her physical aspects were of
main focus most of the time.

But it’s a Transformers
movie. Who cares about the plot, or the character developments and such? The
focus should be on the bots, and in this department, thank God Michael Bay
didn’t pull off a “Pearl Harbour” or “The Island” in this highly anticipated
movie.

Everything concerning the
Autobots and The Decepticons were awesome, from the return of the original
Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), the CG and the fight sequence, up to the morphing
sequence. Although Megatron’s voice actor (Hugo Weaving) wasn’t really at his
best according to his standards, everything else about the bots stands out. The
Qatar base massacre between Blackout and the US Marines was great, as well as
the final battle between The Autobots and The Decepticons. Even the human vs
Decepticons fight scene was commendable.

Camera movements didn’t do
much justice to let viewers experience the sequences clearly but everything was
well choreographed. Sometimes it’s quite struggling to really capture the
morphing moments: probably that’s why some opted to go for a second show for
another reasons.

All in all, it is a great
movie, much better that the disappointments dished out to us earlier in the
form of Spider-Man 3 and Pirates 3 (oh wait, totally forgot about F4-2), but
though the main focus is the bots, which it should be, the length of the film
should have given a bit more emphasis on the human characters and their
development.