More than Meets the Expectations.

I have seen, and I be-lieve, brothers and sisters! Testify! Transformers is one of the coolest movies of recent history.

I don't say that just because I'm admittedly a fanboy; but rather, like Spider-man and X-men, this movie was long overdue and yet it delivers!

[Spoilers start here]

Overall, if I hadn't been too obvious already, I liked the movie a lot. But similar to recent Star Wars installments and The Lord of the Rings, there's just too many humans and not enough fictional beings (robots in this case). Time for the lists!

Things that were good:

1. Optimus Prime voiced by Peter Cullen. Iconic.
2. Realism. Oh you'd believe that you're watching robots fighting. And that they change into vehicles.
   
3. Oh my, Megan Fox and Rachael Taylor. Droooooool...
4. Shia LeBouf who's everywhere this year. Fine actor.
   
5. Blackout (the chopper), who I don't remember from the canon. But pretty cool entrance as the intro to the story. And good as a secondary character.
   
6. Megatron being ruthless.
7. The score. Good music for action.
   
8. Action! Action! Action! Battle! Transform! Boom!
9. Paid homage to the fans. "One shall stand and one shall fall", "Autobots, roll out", Megatron and Starscream hate each other, etc.
10. The talk of a sequel. Droooooool...
    

Things that were OK:

1. It's a Michael Bay film, so it's OK to have sappy humanoid storylines in between Transformer scenes.
2. Supporting characters i.e. Transformers not named Optimus Prime or Megatron.
3. Bumblebee as a Camaro (2008 concept car). Borders on things that were good.
4. Bumblebee not being able to talk normally.
   
5. Megatron as an alien jet fighter. Did you want him as a .38 pistol?
6. Megatron voiced by Hugo Weaving. I heard the guy who voiced him in the cartoons doesn't have the same voice he had a couple of years earlier.
   
7. Humor. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

Aaaaand, here's where the fanboy in me is brought out. Things that were bad:

1. Exclusion of important characters in the cartoon (which will be completely unforgivable if they're not at all in the sequel), which deserves a list of it's own:
1. Soundwave
2. Laserbeak, Rumble and Ravage
3. Wheeljack
4. Perceptor
5. Skywarp and other jets
6. Constructicons and Devastator (a big Oops for the movie, since they named Brawl as "Devastator")
7. Omega Supreme
8. Dinobots!
2. Optimus Prime does not say things like "my bad", ever.
3. Optimus Prime does not need the fiery custom paint job.
4. Where's Optimus's gun?
5. Where's Megatron's gun?
   
6. Not calling them Spike and Sparkplug.
   
7. Why oh why did you kill Jazz? Was easily one of the coolest in the film.
   
8. Frenzy was an annoying robot Ewok.
9. Action scenes were usually dizzying and too zoomed in.
10. The climax/resolution. Huh? Sige na nga.

Anyway, go watch it! I want to watch it again and again until 2009, when the sequel is released.