Director: Josh Cooley
Date Watched: 10-12-2024
Where: Cinemark Stone Hill Plaza, Pflugerville, TX
Rating: 3.5/10
The boys wanted to see this. It wasn’t too good, but I liked it better than the live action Transformers film I saw. As for the kids, they loved it, and want to see it again today. Nope, not me.
The film, which is actually a cartoon, is a never-ending series of chases and battles, peppered with more exposition than anything this side of a Star Wars prequel.
I laughed once, when the lonely, goofy transformer first got his chest device thing and was at last able to announce himself as Badassatron. And maybe a second time in the post-credits scene, also featuring that same B robot.
The plot is more than a little bit like The Matrix. Our hero has abilities he doesn’t know about until he runs into Laurence Fishburne, who explains that the society he thinks is free has actually been enslaved, and has been put to work providing energy for their secret leaders, some tentacled creatures. It’s up to the hero to reveal to the population that they have been deceived, but to do so he has to find something called the Matrix of Leadership. hmmm….
The robots seemed a little too human at times, like when they would run and have to stop to catch their breath. I know next to nothing about Transformers lore, so maybe this is explained. My Transformers viewership is limited to this cartoon and the 2007 film. I never saw the TV cartoon, which may also be why I’m not as jazzed up for this as others are, and why I never bothered to see any of the films beyond that first one. And even that one I only saw because I was on a date, and that’s what she wanted to see.
So I guess that sums up my Transformers watching habits– I’ll come along if someone else wants to see it.
Carmine’s Review: 5/5 stars. This movie is very good, and very cool.
Giacomo’s Review: 5/5 stars. I loved it. It was so violent and I loved the end where– what was his name?– got the thing and turned into a Prime. It was like a really cool scene.
