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First let me say up front I loved this movie, but I have to say a few negative things or there would be nothing to write about. Second you might find a few spoilers in here. I'll try not to give away much, but it's difficult to review a movie without giving away some of what goes on within it.

This movie is the ultimate guy movie. There's just no way around it. If you don't find something in this movie you like just a little bit on some level of your subconscious mind then you are probably a woman, or really really old. Not to say women won't enjoy this movie thanks mainly to the humor provided by the Witwicky family. I have to admit the humor was my favorite part of the movie as well, mostly the humor surrounding Sam Witwicky and his first car which just happens to be Transformer Bumble Bee. I guess it would be honest to say I loved the first half of this movie, and I really liked the second half.

The first part dealing with Sam and Bumblebee are priceless. I could really identify with Sam and he got his first car and tried to impress the girl Mikaela Banes played by Megan Fox who was actually born not far from where I live in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1986. Yes, she's playing a teen, but she's actually 21. Bumble Bee helps Sam with a romantic view, and music played at the right time with the exact words needed at the right moment to help him get the girl who at the beginning of the movie only seems interested in football players. Bumblebee takes the form of a classic Camaro from the 1970's that needs a lot of help. Just the type of car a teenager would be expected to drive. These scenes are very reminiscent of the old Knight Rider series as far as the car seemed to have a mind of it's own. If Bumble Bee would have been a Beetle Bug it may have a little too close to Herbie the Love Bug. So anyway, I began to feel extremely nostalgic for the 80's. Not only am I taken back to my teen years, but the movie is about the Transformers the biggest toy of the 80's, and taking cues from one of my old favorite TV shows. By the way I never actually owned a Transformer toy other than my comic book collection. I was a big fan of the original cartoon series back in the day. Transformers and G.I. Joe were really big during the mid-eighties time frame, and this movie almost seems to pay homage to both with all the military scenes, and heroic efforts of Sergeant Lennox.

The second half of the movie goes a 100 miles an hour. The action is unbelievable! The only complaint I have is I wish they'd hold the stupid camera still. I can see having the shaky camera treatment here and there to emphasize movement, but I enjoy action scenes a lot more when I can tell what the heck is going on. You know just who is shooting who. On the other hand if you want to feel what it's like to be an actual war without the blood and guts then this is as close as you can get from a movie. So bored I wasn't, but if a movie is meant to create some type of emotion then I'd have to say the first part succeeded a lot more than the second part. It's honestly a tricky thing to do, but a 100 percent perfect movie experience keeps you feeling for the characters as they fight toward the climax, and again that emotion might have been more possible if I could have been able to tell who was shooting at who half the time.

But yet there is one other aspect I loved about the movie, and that was the fact they got Peter Cullen to do the voice of Optimus Prime who did the voice of Optimus in most of the cartoons in the 1980's. He also did a show on Knight Rider as the voice of K.A.R.R., K.I.T.T.'s evil Trans Am super car predecessor. Megatron might have been all wrong, but Optimus Prime did surely live again on that big screen! Even the words he used were right out of the 80's complete with Ronald Reagan style inspiration speaking of freedom that all humans have a right to.

Let's face it no movie is perfect. Fans sometimes get angry and bitter because this doesn't work right, or that doesn't work right, but the truth of the matter is they put a lot of work into this film, and a 150 million dollars which would have been more if it weren't for the very tight shooting schedule they adhered to. So all in all I have to give these guys credit for a freakin' awesome movie, and one I will more than likely be adding to my own personal DVD collection.

On a side note, I now have to own the new 2009 Camaro that Bumblebee turns into eventually in the movie. I may have never owned a Transformer toy, but I really really want this one. Looks a lot better than the last Camaro with the honking bird nose.

2009 Camaro

Action Scene	Megatron
Optimus Prime	Protect or Destroy