Robot Rumble!
As the saying goes, men grow old, we don’t grow up. So it is with great pleasure and long overdue anticipation that I brought my 4-year old son to watch Transformers, his first trip to the cinema!
Director Michael Bay who built his career blowing up stuff on the big screen, and executive producer Steven Spielberg, go for broke with this US$145 million live-action juggernaut extravaganza! This robotic smackdown realized by state-of-the-art visual effects is indeed a dream come true for me. I hope it worked its magic on my boy’s rite of passage, as much as it had worked for me, 20 years ago!
I am not trying to write a movie review of Transformers, that I’ll leave to the expert reviewers. I’m feeling kind of nostalgic, so ‘ll take this opportunity to walk down memory lane, and come up with some sniplets of Transformers of yesteryears and those of new generation.
Autobots Protect
Optimus Prime (Semi-trailer truck)
For thousands of years, the heroic leader of the autobots has travelled through space in search of the Allspark. He is the personification of courage, strength and integrity. He has held one goal in mind - to protect the universe from the evil Megatron.
BumbleBee (Chevrolet Camaro)
BumbleBee is the ultimate robot in disguise, he is the autospy after all. What he lacks in size and strength, he makes up for with courage.
It used to be a Volkswagon in the old TV series but has now undergone an overhaul and emerge as a Camaro.
IronHide (modified GMC pick-up truck)
Being a Weapons specialist, IronHide is the toughest autobots around. He sees himself as the cold steel fist backing up as Optimus Prime’s personal bodyguard.
Decepticons Destro
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Megatron
Megatron is the evil leader of the Decepticons and the most dangerous transformer in the galaxy. He will stop at nothing to establish his empire and destroy all autobots, starting with Optimus Prime.
It used to transform into a hand gun in the cartoon TV series, but morphs into an evil-looking jet fighter in this movie.
Frenzy (BoomBox)
The antenna-like interceptors on his head can convert human brainwaves into coherent data, affording him limited mind-reading capability.
Barricade (Ford Mustang Police car)
Disguise on earth as a police car, he is a spy for Megatron and find delights in his ability to gain the trust of human, only to destroy it when he changes into his evil form.
Blackout
As a military helicopter, Blackout is the largest Decepticon and is capable of disrupting mechanical devices with its Electrical Magnetic Pulse gun.
Huge and mean machine, Blackout seeks and destroy the enemies o fhis leader.
geez.. Transformer is like my big time favourite!
I am gonna watch it this week!
My five year old is SOOOO excited about this movie.
He just saw the old animated movie the other day and is obsessed by them….so we will go.
Looking forward to watching this movie.
Hey guys, this movie is a must-see movie of the year! If there’s any movie you are gonna miss, make sure Transformers is not the one!
Hi. First, thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. Second.. How did your 4 year old do with this movie? We were really disappointed to see this rated pg-13. My husband has been a Transformers fan since childhood (sounds like you are too) and still has his first generation Transformer figures! So our boys have been literally raised to love Transformers (as if it wasn’t already in their DNA) We resisted taking them on opening day beacuse we’re not sure about the violence and why it was rated as it is. Would love to have a parent’s opinion on the rating!
The movie isn’t violent at all, it’s non-stop explosive actions. Like i said, it is like a roller coaster ride, and a demolition derby where a lot of metal clanking metal.
Only the initial scene there’s human casualty, but totally no blood spilled. Other than that, I didn’t see any human perish in the movie.
The actions come fast and furious, there were thousands of stuffs happening all at once, gripping me at the edge of my seat, i’m too excited to notice any thing that will corrupt young minds.
All in all, only 1 robot got ripped apart. The rest were all destroyed by bombs, and explosion.
I would say it’s not as violence as the rating would have you think. There’s still the positive message of good guys won against bad guys. An AWESOME show!