Filminfo
Filmjahr:
Schauspieler:
Drehbuch:
Genre:
Action,
Science-Fiction,
Studio:
Dreamworks
Genre:
Action
Andere
Horror
Reality-TV
Liebe
Science-Fiction
Thriller
Animation
Komödie
Dokumentation
Drama
Familie
Studio:
Disc- Erstellung:
(z.B. 2002/10/21)
Kinostart:
(z.B. 2002/10/21)
Synopsis:
Tagline:
Their war. Our world.
Nov 12, 2008
Second time I'd seen this, and honestly, besides the effects I'm not sure why I bothered. The transformers themselves, at least the way they look, is ...
Second time I'd seen this, and honestly, besides the effects I'm not sure why I bothered. The transformers themselves, at least the way they look, is very cool and well done, there's an organic feeling to the computer effects here that is missing from a lot of big budget films. But the film drags on way too long, they needed to trim at least a half hour out of this thing. Too many scenes of Shia saying; "No, no, no, no!!!!" Too much sass talking and over-explanations from a bunch of robots. Too many characters that I didn't care for. Much of the last battle sequence could have been lost. The battle on the freeway is the high-point of the film, and there's enough cool robot fighting action to keep you interested, but tightening it up would have made it that much better.
--Written by Ross Williams--
--From: What I Watched Last Night (http://whatiwatchedlastnight.blogspot.com)--
--Written by Ross Williams--
--From: What I Watched Last Night (http://whatiwatchedlastnight.blogspot.com)--
Feb 03, 2009
There seems to be this worldwide hate for director Michael Bay and I personally can’t see why. I am definitely not on the “Bay hate wagon” as I have e ...
There seems to be this worldwide hate for director Michael Bay and I personally can’t see why. I am definitely not on the “Bay hate wagon” as I have enjoyed nearly all of his films so far. Transformers is his latest mega-action venture and from a pure entertainment angle this film is by far his best.
The story of the film is a teenager (LaBeouf) called Sam buys his first ever care; a rusty old camaro. He is now very excited that he can now use this car to pick up the girl of his dreams (Fox). Unbeknown to him his new car is actually a transforming alien robot that is part of a whole team, called the Autobots, who have come to save the human race from another team of transformers called the Decepticons. The Decepticons are there on earth searching for a cube which could lead to them being able to take over the entire universe. The humans (and Sam specifically), are caught up in this war between these transforming alien robots.
The obvious attraction and definitely the biggest plus point of this film is the effects. There is absolutely no denying that this is one spectacular film to look at. I can 100% guarantee you that you will not have seen any special effects that look as good as these do. This is one of those rare special effects bonanzas that have zero flaws when it comes to the actual physical look of the special effects themselves; (the problem I had with the viewing of those special effects I will get to later) this film is flawless.
The story is where the first problem lies with this film. And that is there isn’t much of one. Sure we have this totally ridiculous and almost stupid story or reason why these transforming robots are here but the main story related to the human characters (and their relation to these robots) is lacking tremendously. There are a tenfold of smaller plot threads and points that don’t get delved into as much as they could have been and some are left so unexplained that it is plain annoying. But I expect if you want to see this film you are not expecting something like The Shawshank Redemption.
Problems continue for this film; with the script up next. Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman should have seriously considered giving the script 100 times more care and attention than they did. It seemed like they were just throwing in multiple one liners, mainly coming from the robots, trying to sound cool to a semi-younger audience. One scene in particular, where Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots if you don’t know), introduces all of his allies. I actually wanted to cover my face in sheer embarrassment at some of the dialogue that the various robots were coming out with. This is also very much as cheesy with some of the human dialogue and scenes. There are various, although amusing, unnecessary scenes of Sam trying to impress a girl and his car (who is a robot remember) starts acting weird. If only they had taken as much care with the script as they did with the effects then this would have been a much better film.
Although Shia LaBeouf is shaping up to be a fine young actor, and some of the lines he comes out within the film is funny, I still found the attempts at humour with him and some of the rest of the humans (and robots) just didn’t work. Maybe in another movie, at another time this would work but in a special effects Michael Bay action film the humour, for the most part, just came off as extremely cheesy.
My aforementioned problem with the actual view of the fantastic special effects is as follows; for the most part you could barely see anything. We were too close to the action. In the final battle of the film I felt like pausing it, flying to Michael Bay’s house, grabbing him by both shoulders and saying to him, “Michael, do you see the zoom out button? It is fully functional, you know.” By the time the film ended my head was in a spin as I had spent the last 140 minutes trying to work which robot was fighting which robot.
The Transformers is what it is. There isn’t a whole lot more I could say about it. It’s a two and half hour long movie about robots beating the hell out of each other, what more can you say? The fans of the original TV show will be in heaven and the kids are sure to have a good time watching all the pretty big robots transforming.
Despite the films abundance of problems I still ended up enjoying watching a bunch of robots beating the crap out of each other for a couple of hours. I would have loved it if Bay and everyone involved had remembered to take better care with every other aspect of the film than the effects. But I certainly don’t want to discourage you to get out and see this film, to, if nothing else, witness the very best visual effects in movie history.
==Written by Ross Miller== ==From: Movie World (www.movie-world.moonfruit.com)==
The story of the film is a teenager (LaBeouf) called Sam buys his first ever care; a rusty old camaro. He is now very excited that he can now use this car to pick up the girl of his dreams (Fox). Unbeknown to him his new car is actually a transforming alien robot that is part of a whole team, called the Autobots, who have come to save the human race from another team of transformers called the Decepticons. The Decepticons are there on earth searching for a cube which could lead to them being able to take over the entire universe. The humans (and Sam specifically), are caught up in this war between these transforming alien robots.
The obvious attraction and definitely the biggest plus point of this film is the effects. There is absolutely no denying that this is one spectacular film to look at. I can 100% guarantee you that you will not have seen any special effects that look as good as these do. This is one of those rare special effects bonanzas that have zero flaws when it comes to the actual physical look of the special effects themselves; (the problem I had with the viewing of those special effects I will get to later) this film is flawless.
The story is where the first problem lies with this film. And that is there isn’t much of one. Sure we have this totally ridiculous and almost stupid story or reason why these transforming robots are here but the main story related to the human characters (and their relation to these robots) is lacking tremendously. There are a tenfold of smaller plot threads and points that don’t get delved into as much as they could have been and some are left so unexplained that it is plain annoying. But I expect if you want to see this film you are not expecting something like The Shawshank Redemption.
Problems continue for this film; with the script up next. Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman should have seriously considered giving the script 100 times more care and attention than they did. It seemed like they were just throwing in multiple one liners, mainly coming from the robots, trying to sound cool to a semi-younger audience. One scene in particular, where Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots if you don’t know), introduces all of his allies. I actually wanted to cover my face in sheer embarrassment at some of the dialogue that the various robots were coming out with. This is also very much as cheesy with some of the human dialogue and scenes. There are various, although amusing, unnecessary scenes of Sam trying to impress a girl and his car (who is a robot remember) starts acting weird. If only they had taken as much care with the script as they did with the effects then this would have been a much better film.
Although Shia LaBeouf is shaping up to be a fine young actor, and some of the lines he comes out within the film is funny, I still found the attempts at humour with him and some of the rest of the humans (and robots) just didn’t work. Maybe in another movie, at another time this would work but in a special effects Michael Bay action film the humour, for the most part, just came off as extremely cheesy.
My aforementioned problem with the actual view of the fantastic special effects is as follows; for the most part you could barely see anything. We were too close to the action. In the final battle of the film I felt like pausing it, flying to Michael Bay’s house, grabbing him by both shoulders and saying to him, “Michael, do you see the zoom out button? It is fully functional, you know.” By the time the film ended my head was in a spin as I had spent the last 140 minutes trying to work which robot was fighting which robot.
The Transformers is what it is. There isn’t a whole lot more I could say about it. It’s a two and half hour long movie about robots beating the hell out of each other, what more can you say? The fans of the original TV show will be in heaven and the kids are sure to have a good time watching all the pretty big robots transforming.
Despite the films abundance of problems I still ended up enjoying watching a bunch of robots beating the crap out of each other for a couple of hours. I would have loved it if Bay and everyone involved had remembered to take better care with every other aspect of the film than the effects. But I certainly don’t want to discourage you to get out and see this film, to, if nothing else, witness the very best visual effects in movie history.
==Written by Ross Miller== ==From: Movie World (www.movie-world.moonfruit.com)==
The 1996 American update of the 1985 Japanese Transformers series is based on a computer game and a line of toys from Hasbro. Like Voltron: The Third Dimension (1998), which it resembles, Beast Wars reveals just how quickly computer graphics evolved. The weightless characters move in simple, repeated cycles and never come in contact with the ground when they walk or run. The pseudo-Valley Dude dialogue ("Cool your circuits!") and the way the filmmakers trot out every toy in every episode (to remind potential buyers of their existence) recall the bad old days of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Fans of video games and/or toys will enjoy the screaming battles between familiar characters in their organic and robotic forms; others will quickly weary of the repetitive story and over-the-top vocal performances. Unrated; suitable for ages 8 and up: Violence. --Charles Solomon
Disc-Daten
Disc-Version:
Laufzeit:
143
DVD-Region:
3
Disc-Typ:
DVD
Seitenverhältnis:
16:9
Videoformat:
MPEG-2
Kindersicherung:
1
Videosignal:
NTSC
Layers:
2
Untertitel:
Indonesian (Indonesia)
Chinese (Taiwan)
English (United States)
Korean (Korea)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Thai (Thailand)
English (United States)
Korean (Korea)
Soundmix:
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital



Rezensiert von: bobby Hinzugefügt am 08/02/2010 2010/08/02
i want to watch this movie
Rezensiert von: bobby Hinzugefügt am 08/02/2010 2010/08/02
i want to watch this movie
Rezensiert von: Goose Hinzugefügt am 04/21/2010 2010/04/21
good movie
Rezensiert von: Mr THuong Hinzugefügt am 03/26/2010 2010/03/26
aas
Rezensiert von: keith Hinzugefügt am 03/22/2010 2010/03/22
its awsome grafix
Rezensiert von: tonyodsigue Hinzugefügt am 03/20/2010 2010/03/20
Not seen the movie