Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]
by Michael Bay

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Actor: Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Michael Bay
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Allegra Clegg
Producer: Brian Goldner
Producer: Don Murphy
Producer: Ian Bryce
Writer: Alex Kurtzman
Writer: John Rogers
Writer: Roberto Orci
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Amazingly Very Good!
Summary: 5 Stars

After watching the TV show as I was growing up, I was tremendously against ever seeing this movie because I thought it would completely ruin my childhood memories. My brother finally convinced me that this was indeed a good movie, and he was right.

First thing's first, the dialogue isn't Gone with the Wind. It's mediocre at best and sometimes really bad. But there's also some bright spots, and some subtle humor in lines from Optimus Prime that I really enjoyed.

The human characters are mostly very well played. Although I think the leader of the secret government agency in the movie is written very poorly. I wanted that guy to get crushed by an Autobot or Decepticon immediately. John Voight is, as always, perfect in his role as the Secretary of Defense. Although I have to admit I'm biased in his favor in the first place, I've loved everything he's done on screen. Shia Lebeouf gives a credible performance as the main human character Sam. I also appreciated that the character seemed to grow by the end of the movie. At the beginning it's pretty clear Lebeouf's character is a complete weenie who's totally afraid of Megan Fox's character and hardly is able to talk to her. By the end he's grown up some. I like it when there's at least some attempt at character development in an action movie.

However, the action scenes are what makes this movie great. The explosions are tremendous as is the destruction. The movie also I think doesn't stray into too much action or violence just to have another explosion. To me, every action scene was well done and appropriate.

The best thing I took away from this movie is a new found appreciation and caring for The Transformers and the Autobots in particular. The movie not only didn't destroy my memories of what I watched as a kid, it gave me a new appreciation of the story. I think if a skeptical Transformers fan gave this movie a chance they'd find the same thing I did, that it's very well done and doesn't do a disservice to what we all remember watching as kids.

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Summary of Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the heroic Autobotsr and the evil Decepticonsr. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the Decepticonsr and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Unaware that he is mankind's last chance for survival, Sam and Bumblebee, his robot disguised as a car, are in a heart-pounding race against an enemy unlike anything anyone has seen before. It's the incredible, breath-taking film spectacular that USA Today says ''will appeal to the kid in all of us.''

"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar.

Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers! --A.T. Hurley

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