Transformers review
Jul. 29th, 2007 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI really do never learn. Despite the fact that I've never met a Michael Bay movie I even remotely liked, I allowed myself to be lulled into a false sense of security by the Empire review and the recommendations of people whose opinions I respect. I went in to Transformers with a completely disengaged brain, knowing that it would be nothing like the cartoon, and hoping it might be a couple of hours of mindless entertainment.
It certainly wasn't anthing like the cartoon and, unfortunately, it also wasn't remotely entertaining. Now, I realise most of the people reading this have already seen the film and rather enjoyed it - I don't really know what to say other than that I assume Dave and I must somehow have been watching a different film. The comedy was completely unfunny, the script was execrable, the characters were all bland, annoying or utterly unlikeable, and the parts that weren't cringe-makingly awful were downright traumatic. I have no idea how a film of such violence got a 12A certificate, but I found a lot of it very unpleasant - the body count was huge, and watching Megatron tear Jazz in half is something the seven-year-old avid cartoon fan inside me is not going to forget any time soon. Not to mention Bumblebee being subdued (which went on for a very long time and involved very disturbing side effects) and later losing his legs. Just because they were robots didn't make their injuries and suffering any less horrific to me.
Obviously, my opinon is not shared by many - I don't know why I didn't enjoy the film when other people did. I know I have a blind spot when it comes to comedy - almost universally, I don't find things funny that are generally accepted to be so. Evidently, I have a similar problem with action movies, if this one is anything to go by. I really wish that wasn't the case - that way, there'd be a whole lot more entertainment open to me, and I wouldn't be going to bed tonight wishing two and a half hours of my memories could be erased.
It certainly wasn't anthing like the cartoon and, unfortunately, it also wasn't remotely entertaining. Now, I realise most of the people reading this have already seen the film and rather enjoyed it - I don't really know what to say other than that I assume Dave and I must somehow have been watching a different film. The comedy was completely unfunny, the script was execrable, the characters were all bland, annoying or utterly unlikeable, and the parts that weren't cringe-makingly awful were downright traumatic. I have no idea how a film of such violence got a 12A certificate, but I found a lot of it very unpleasant - the body count was huge, and watching Megatron tear Jazz in half is something the seven-year-old avid cartoon fan inside me is not going to forget any time soon. Not to mention Bumblebee being subdued (which went on for a very long time and involved very disturbing side effects) and later losing his legs. Just because they were robots didn't make their injuries and suffering any less horrific to me.
Obviously, my opinon is not shared by many - I don't know why I didn't enjoy the film when other people did. I know I have a blind spot when it comes to comedy - almost universally, I don't find things funny that are generally accepted to be so. Evidently, I have a similar problem with action movies, if this one is anything to go by. I really wish that wasn't the case - that way, there'd be a whole lot more entertainment open to me, and I wouldn't be going to bed tonight wishing two and a half hours of my memories could be erased.
