Product Description: From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. When their epic struggle comes to Earth all that stands between the Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Unaware that he is mankind s last chance for survival Sam and Bumblebee his robot disguised as a car are in a heart-pounding race against an enemy unlike anything anyone has seen before. It s the incredible breath-taking film spectacular that USA Today says "will appeal to the kid in all of us."System Requirements:Running Time: 143 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/ALIEN INVASION Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097363455349 Manufacturer No: 345534
Amazon.com: "I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, Transformers. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar.
Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like Raiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong, and the early technothriller WarGames. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live Transformers! --A.T. Hurley
Actor selection was not so smart, but partly brilliant Shia lebouf is a young actor with spirit, not gourgeous and so handsome but definately has the spirit like Harison ford so when I heard about his role in New Indiana jones episodes, I SAID TO MYSELF, GOOD JOB sTEVEN. You've just found a young decendant for harison ford in upcoming Indiana Jones adventures. Although, he is still young and has at least ten years to become a face who can lead a Jones movie without Harison for. Selecting him as Sam in Transformers was so smart and maybe the reason that this movie is so touching is partly because of him but in contrary, other actor selections are terrible. Megan Fox, acting talent is ZERO, communicating is ZERO, May look beautiful and sexy from distance but not a big deal in reality. The first time I saw her on big screen, not really big screen, better say a big screen TV, was back to 2003 in a cheap movie named "Confessions of a teenage drama queen" as a wicked rich girl. In time I said to myself, what was the director thinking when she put her in front of Lindsay lohan. Lindsay may have better acting talents and spirit but in reality there is no way that she can oppose such girl as Megan but, in transformers, they should have used a girl such as Lindsay instead of just a sexy stone girl because, this movie was not a teenage romantic comedy but an action film needed some spirit. SPIRIT! Another criticism is about using those fat African-American phenomenons in the movie. why? to show that Americans are not racist? It's an old story to mandatory use of black people to show that America is not a race base society. Of course it's not. it's time to use people in movies when they are needed and suitable not because they are black. Anyway, this was a good movie. I hope there will be more sequels.
Great action...great everything! Frikkin' awesome! Love Shia Labeouf (quite the cutie), love action/sci-fi/comedy/bit-of-romance films. Autobots battle the Decepticons! Must save mankind! Fantastic graphics! Oh yeah! Another A+ for Steven Spielberg. Looking forward to more Transformer movies. Autobots, rollout!
elmo - transformer is the bext movie I ever seen... I will be waiting for the next episode of this movie by Michael Bay and looking forward to see Megan Fox again... I suggest more sexy star to be included on its part II... Awesome movie ever seen... Im watching this movie every time I feel free... 10 Thumbs up for all of you guys!!!
Just Absoluetly Awesome!! A really great movie for all Transformers fans to see!! When I finally saw Transformers for the first time. I was blown away. The storyline, special effects, and the cast really come together. Michael Bay is da man!! He was the perfect director for this movie. Then there's the cast: The very talented Shia LeBeouf, utlta sexy actress Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson are great together. Sexy Australian Rachael Taylor brings a international flavor to Transformers. Love her in those high heels. But don't forget the legendary Peter Cullen an Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. No one can voice OP better than him. As for the special effects, they will blow you away. It should have won a Oscar for Visual Effects in my opinion. Overall it's a great movie to have in your DVD collection. Can't wait for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
Idiotic Format Wars I am so cheesed off that I'll ave to wait this long to get Transformers, a very, very, very awesome movie on Blu-Ray, because of the idiotic and asinine format war that went on for so long. I've been a Transformers fan since the original cartoon and toys. I've had the original animated movie on DVD since the very first time it came out on DVD. And I was actually DREADING this movie. Michael Bay? The man who gave us such wretched CRAP as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor? Forgetting the scientific absurdities of Armageddon and the HORRIBLE historical inaccuracies of Pearl Harbor, the movies were just flat out AWFUL. So when I found out that Michael Bay would be directing a movie based on an iconic element of my childhood I was aghast and horrified, to say the least
But all I can say is Thank God for Stephen Spielberg. Watching the movie you can actually SEE points where Bay was trying to veer off into his mindless "blow stuff up who cares about plot?" usual directing style, but then you can almost see Spielberg's hand reach in and smack him like a puppy who's just pee'd on the carpet and take the movie back where it's supposed to be.
I loved this movie. And I'd spent a year or two gearing up to hate it. That's how good it is.
But now, on to the matter of it being released on HD DVD instead of Blu-Ray. Such an IDIOTIC, ASININE thing! If it had been nothing but a matter of which type of disk was simply BETTER, there would have been no contest at all. Blu-Ray has ALWAYS been better. I'll explain the differences below, but, unfortunately for us, a product being technically better than its competitors has never had much impact on the good old capitalism of our great country. Remember VCRs? Beta was MUCH better than VHS, but the company that made the VHS tapes and got paid royalties by everyone who used them had a better set of lawyers, marketers, and whatever other slimy creatures they needed to ensure that their inferior product came out on top in the vacuous wasteland that is American consumer culture.
And during the past 2 or 4 years or so we'd been going through the same type of thing again, everyone: another Format War, between HD DVD and Blu-Ray, the successors to DVD.
But we can thank God that THIS idiotic format war has finally ended, the respective megacorps having thrown all their support behind whichever pet project would have given them the most royalties, or made them the most bribes, and now that the dust has finally settled we have a winner and we can finally start getting Blu-Rays of all the movies we want, and the prices will start dropping as improvements in manufacturing techniques develop and the effect of economy of scale takes over. Remember when DVDs cost 50 dollars? The prices of Blu-Ray movies will now drop the same way, and before too long we'll be able to get 5 dollar discount bin blu-rays, too.
Yes, it still came down to one megacorp bribing, whining, and cajoling enough other megacorps to secure their own royalties for their own format, and then finally ramming it home down everyone's collective throat with a videogame machine with a built-in player that cost less than most stand alone players of the format by a good amount...
But this time we can be thankful that the format that won, Blu-Ray, is the one that is actually the BEST one. Remember VCRs? That time, the format that won the format war was the one that SUCKED. Betamax was VERY much better tan VHS, which is what everyone now remembers as VCR tapes.
But this time the best format won.
Just compare: current data capacity for Blu-Ray is 50 gigs, vs HD DVD's 30 gigs. Not much, you say? Almost twice as much, actually. And you have to consider that a DVD holds about 7 gigs. SEVEN. See how big a difference that is?
But then we wet to the maximum theoretical limits, which means how much the two different types will be able to hold in, say, about 5 years. And even after that they'll probably squeeze out a little bit more, just because we can do crazy things nowadays.
Blu-Ray will eventually get up to 200gigs.
HD DVD? 60 gigs.
That's a HUGE difference, people. HUGE. The hard drive on my laptop is only 120 gigs. So that means I could back up EVERYTHING on my computer on ONE Blu-Ray and have almost a third of the disk left over, but it would take 2 entire disks to do the same with an HD DVD.
So, the ultimate lesson we can learn from all of this is that the companies that sell us stuff don't give a flying fig about what is better for us, they only care about what is better for them, by which I mean whatever makes them more money. But we can be thankful that THIS time, in a fight between groups of millionaires and megacorporations, the consumers like us actually won something for a change.
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