Product Description
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For a limited time get Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of
the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon together in this
Blu-ray pack. See how the battle unfolds as Sam Witwicky (Shia
LeBeouf) and the Autobots™ battle the Decepticons™ in an epic
showdown for the survival of mankind.
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Transformers
"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
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Pure. Popcorn. Entertainment. That's an exact classification of
director Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Think
of Transformers 1 on crack. In other words, this sequel took all
of the extreme elements that made fans love the first movie and
increased them exponentially. The action is nonstop, with battles
and explosions from start to finish. The camera (without any
subtlety) exploits Megan Fox's hotness to the max. As if she
weren't enough, a new sex kitten (Isabel Lucas) is thrown into
the equation. Shia LaBeouf is as charismatic as ever, and fills
the starring role with ease. And then there's the humor. Sam's
parents (Kevin Dunn and Julie White)provided some semi-raunchy
laugh-out-loud moments in the first movie, but now they take it
to the next level. Sometimes it seems like they are trying a
little too hard, but it is still hilarious.
As far as the “plot” goes, the writers didn't waste much
time--it's really just a context for the giant-robot death
matches and dramatic slow-mo sequences. The movie kicks off two
years later where the Autobots have formed an alliance with the
U.S. government, creating an elite team led by Major Lennox (Josh
Duhamel), in an effort to snuff out any remaining Decepticons
that show up. The bad guys keep coming, and it turns out that a
much more menacing force than Megatron is out there--and it is
looking for something on Earth that is tied to the very origin of
the Transformers race. Fans of the franchise will be delighted by
the addition of many new robot characters (there are well over 40
in the sequel, versus only 13 in the first). The second
Transformers has shaped up to be one of the worst reviewed and
most successful movies of all time. This strange pairing is
really just an indication that this movie has one purpose: to
entertain. The creators didn't want to waste time bogging down
the action and drama with substance--which was arguably a good
decision. --Jordan Thompson
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Talk about "transforming." Michael Bay tested the patience of
even the most devoted Transformers fan with the second
installment of the franchise, Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen, but the hyperactive director bounces back in energetic
form with number three, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. From the
long opening sequence (a zany alternate-history reading of the
NASA moon program, complete with cameos by John F. Kennedy and
Richard Nixon) through the predictably extended action climax,
Bay is actually on his best behavior. Sure, his taste is as
vulgar as ever (is introducing your leading lady via a lingering
butt part of the director's personal signature?), but the
story line is streamlined and the action is coherent: the
constant chop-chop of the fighting sequences in Revenge is gone,
replaced by a long-take approach that actually shows us who's
fighting who. Plus, it's hard to resist a tilting skyscraper that
allows the protagonists to slide down its glassy exterior. I
know, right?
Shia LaBeouf returns, armed with a new and improbably bodacious
girlfriend (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley); although initially
unemployed, he's drawn back into protecting the planet from giant
outer-space robots, as the Decepticons menace the Earth once
again. John Turturro and Josh Duhamel return to help, and Frances
McDormand and John Malkovich join the club. Let's reduce critical
expectations and say that if you're going to make a dumb movie
about mass destruction, this is the way to do it (and if that
sounds like faint praise, compare the movie to its abysmal
predecessor). Throw in Hangover funnyman Ken Jeong, computer nerd
Alan Tudyk doing a German accent, and the voice of Leonard Nimoy
as Sentinel Prime, and you've got yourself a three-ring circus of
extremely spirited nonsense. Just how Michael Bay wants it.
--Robert Horton