No more than meets the eye.
Writing about web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/06/transformers_190609.html
I watched the first (live action) Transformers film at the weekend. This occurred as a result of my being asked if I would like to go and see it's sequel at the cinema and replying that I hadn't seen the first one. The theory being to watch the fist one then I could decide whether I felt the second one would be worth attending a cinema for. I can sum up the first film in just two words: Utterly ridiculous. I've just discovered that Mark Kermode has reviewed the second film using no words at all.
Mike Willis
24 Jun 2009 13:36
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My guess is that you are not much of a Transformers fan. As someone who grew watching the cartoon version as a kid, the movie was something we had been waiting all along.
24 Jun 2009, 15:41
James Taylor
Ahh.. another Kermode podcast listener :)
I have mixed feelings about the 1st – these will probably be the same for the sequel when I finally get round to seeing it.
It was great to see some Transformers action on the big screen, no doubt about it. But it was a let down in some areas – notably that the characters weren’t the original G1 characters (which I really wanted to see), and that the lead actors were just cheesy and not engaging in any way. But it was fun and there was so much excellent CGI. As long as the sequel is more of the same, I’ll be fairly happy.
Neither are a match for the original Transformers cartoon movie from 1986 however – damn that was a great film and so much darker than the live action movies.
29 Jun 2009, 12:57
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