Transformers: Autobots, Transform and Roll!
Transformers, Robots in Disguise
Transformers, More than meets the eye
Autobots wage their Battle
To destroy the evil forces
Of…the Decepticons
If you’re a child of the Eighties, doesn’t this song bring back the memories?! It reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons, of cute yellow Bumble Bee, of watching robots going “chik-chik-chik” as they transformed and the oh so goody-two-shoos Optimus Prime!
With all the recent Transformers hype, I finally managed to score myself tickets to see it and hmm…here’s a Pinkelle review on it:
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The Autobots were so inferior compared to the Decepticons! They only traveled by road while the super-cool Decepticons could fly AND change from airplane to robots midway while landing AND change back to take off after they had finished fighting! Did I say I preferred the Decepticons?!
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The Transformers changed so quickly in the cartoon with just about 5 “chiks” and here in the movie, they took ages with many many tiny parts changing. Somehow, it wasn’t as nice as the movie was!
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Bumble Bee wasn’t that cute little Volkswagen Beetle! He went from this:
to this swanky Camaro in the movie:
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They got Megatron screwed up! I remember Megatron used to transform himself into a gun in the cartoon but here he was a fighter plane, a cool one nonetheless but gun to fighter plane?! This:
to this scary looking thing:
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The transformers, both Autobots and Decepticons, were dark, metallic and spiky so in the fighting scenes it was sometimes quite hard to make out which was which.
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And they didn’t sing the famous Transformers theme song!
All in all, it wasn’t that bad a movie though. I had a hilarious time watching the way they portrayed the US government and their paranoia that the attacks came from China and North Korea! Less than a decade ago, Russia would have been their first suspect! But opps…no spoilers!
I half expected my car to go “chik chik chik” and turn into a cool robot but nah, it stayed the little metallic blue car it was and took me home without any funky thrills! So if you’re and Eighties child who grew up on a steady diet of Transformers, go watch it and tell me what you think! 
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i was an eighties child but didn’t get to watch it that much…i’ll still go see it!
PE says: Go watch it and tell me what you think!
It’ll definitely be more animated than your…er…transformers 
I thought that the Transformers would be more “clean-cut” when they assume their natural selves, but in the movie they looked quite jumbled up with lots of bumps and kinks, hor?
either way… it’s a really darn good movie!
PE says: Ya ya! I didn’t like how they had all these little bits and pieces sticking out all over! But that scene when Bumblebee “lubricated” that mean guy from Sector 7 was just too hilarious!
Btw, when they were talking, they reminded me of the Entz from Lord Of The Rings!
How come the pictures of the transformed Bumblebee and Megatron don’t look anything like what I remember from the movie one?
Uh, error in my comment - should be not like what I remember from the CARTOON one… Heh… fingers faster than my mind.
PE says: Eh which one doesn’t look like the Cartoon one? The one in the movie definitely didn’t! Arguably the cartoon version was a lot more 2-D but I still like how much “cleaner” they looked with nice clean lines!
wat happened to bumble bee??
really transformed huh??
PE says: Welcome!
Yeah Bumblebee transformed but he wasn’t the cute little Beetle I like from the cartoon!
cik cik cik *say this in Robot tone* Have- yet- to- watch- Trans-for-mers- The- Mo-vie…will- do- it-soon- cik cik cik.
PE says: LOL
Thank God Megatron wasn’t a stupid looking gun.
The best movie of a poor 2007, I didn’t like how Megatron died and the gimpy references of eBay and http://WWW. 
Hahaha…how about the call centre in India that the soldier got directed to? I thought that was hilarious!