After a few weeks of waiting I finally saw the movie last night. I was actually throughly impressed! It seems the makers of the movie actually listened to the critique that people gave the original. Removing embarassing and frankly out-of-character lines such as "Bumblebee stop leaking lubricant on the man" and "my bad" (my god how my ears bled).
They kept plenty of the true comedy and drama, coupled with the romantic troubles that the two lead humans suffer it made quite a varied and enjoyable film. Not to mention that after about...well, thrity seconds the film opens into an all out battle scene between an army of Transformers and a co-ordinated battle in Shanghai and it never stops. There is always a compelling reason to keep watching, be it for giant robot action, awkward romantic moments (always funny!) or the tense battle scenes.
I'm also VERY pleased that they decided to give both Megatron and Starscream more than three-lines this time around, so that you actually see a bit of personaity (thank the gaming gods!)
This is a pretty informal review, but if you liked the first film, the original animated series (there have been a few), then this is pretty much a must see -- its what the first film should've been, less embarassing one liners, less Optimus' mouth moving, more Decepticon dialogue and background, more compelling characters, more actual comedy, darker story, screen exploding action and heck, Optimus with Upgrades...nuff' said
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I'm actually looking into getting the game, I read a few reviews that seem to have been written by some kind of Monkey, because they're all very contradicting. The biggest flaws apparently are the Controls (which take a while to get used to), the enviroment blocking you on occassion (which can be remedied when you know the controls) and how hard it is because of the controls. Yet the reviewer raves about how fun it is...when you know the controls
, surely the phrase "A steep learning curve which is very rewarding" would've been more suitable?
Does anyone own the game, any opinions?
I'm really hoping for some more Autobot dialogue on the DVD Release (deleted scenes), afterall the Twin-Motorcycles only had one line (should've been more) and Bumblebee seemed to be pretty sparse too within the movie.
Discuss ^^
They kept plenty of the true comedy and drama, coupled with the romantic troubles that the two lead humans suffer it made quite a varied and enjoyable film. Not to mention that after about...well, thrity seconds the film opens into an all out battle scene between an army of Transformers and a co-ordinated battle in Shanghai and it never stops. There is always a compelling reason to keep watching, be it for giant robot action, awkward romantic moments (always funny!) or the tense battle scenes.
I'm also VERY pleased that they decided to give both Megatron and Starscream more than three-lines this time around, so that you actually see a bit of personaity (thank the gaming gods!)
This is a pretty informal review, but if you liked the first film, the original animated series (there have been a few), then this is pretty much a must see -- its what the first film should've been, less embarassing one liners, less Optimus' mouth moving, more Decepticon dialogue and background, more compelling characters, more actual comedy, darker story, screen exploding action and heck, Optimus with Upgrades...nuff' said
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I'm actually looking into getting the game, I read a few reviews that seem to have been written by some kind of Monkey, because they're all very contradicting. The biggest flaws apparently are the Controls (which take a while to get used to), the enviroment blocking you on occassion (which can be remedied when you know the controls) and how hard it is because of the controls. Yet the reviewer raves about how fun it is...when you know the controls
, surely the phrase "A steep learning curve which is very rewarding" would've been more suitable?Does anyone own the game, any opinions?
I'm really hoping for some more Autobot dialogue on the DVD Release (deleted scenes), afterall the Twin-Motorcycles only had one line (should've been more) and Bumblebee seemed to be pretty sparse too within the movie.
Discuss ^^
Nevertheless, the movie is awesome, and the song is great.
