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  • 2:16 I never saw the original cartoon. When he said "It is the year 2005", I exploded.

  • i hate this is a horeble movie

  • Megatron has the ability to reduce size, but it consumes a lot of Energon. It's mention on comics. That's how he turns into a gun.

  • I just hate how the live action transformers look. They're just a humanoid yet random mess of metal. Formless.

  • bonecrusher just went through the bus for no reason, fuck him.

  • number 2 sucks so hard this one is good like the origanal but the original is still way better

  • Ok...we got Devastator,Soundwave, and Ravage in the 2nd movie...what will be in the 3rd?! Megatron lived in the end of the 2nd movie so there has to be a 3rd!

  • Well, we could always get Unicron.

  • okay..the plot you proposed was actually better than what actually happened..

  • Well, while your plot guesstimate was only somewhat accurate, the rest of your review was spot-on.

    I'd also like to note that I enjoy the new Transformers movies, and that I am a die hard fan of G1 as well.

    The new movies do the transformers quite a disservice in many ways, but they still have a certain charm to them all their own.

  • Man ... I'm glad I didn't waste a buck on the "decepticon" of a movie, that the Hollydoofs transformed the original into.

    Now to flush down the sour aftertaste from havin' seen this on cable ...

    with a TON of sugar!

  • The whole thing about logic with transformers is we noticed, we just didn't care because the show rocked regardless of logic. Besides, kids hyped up on sugar don't care about logic. :D

  • OMG AT 8:21 HE REVEALED THAT THERE WILL BE A 3RD MOVIE! ( in the years of 2000 :P)

  • soundwave the ipod made me laugh.

  • and now soundwave is a fucking satallite, ugh just gets me angry

  • actually the old movie was set in 2005 and the humans granted the autobots the permission to build a base of operations (autobot city) on earth

  • i HATE THE NEW LOOKS IT SUCKS

  • the second 0ne has devistator and sould wave! you think there ugly?! there fu*%ing awesome!

  • wel ive spot a mistake keth david is not the voice of barricade its jess harnel he voiced ironhide but keath did voice barricade in the game u probaly know tat by now

  • ...damn, he called the sequal nicely...

    but ya, at first look it was odd, afterwards its brought new life to franchise...gotta say though, Transformers 2 pretty much sets the stage for the coming of Galvatron and Unicron...we can only hope right?

  • Holy F$ckin Sh*t That Was A Great Review!

  • i liked this movie better than the second one in everyway, plot, special effects and comedy.

  • well, in the second movie soundwave is a satelite. It just bugs me so much that michael bay feels the need to kill off all teh decepticons (more autobots than just jazz need to die, or let them beat the crap out of each other without getting killed, like in g1). Bumblebee is way too big, there are too many humans, starscream isn't as fun as he was in g1 with allways trying to overthrow megarton, make them look like their g1 counterparts, and wtf is up with devastator in the second movie!

  • It's not G1, get the fuck over it. It's new and different.

  • WOPR FTW!!!

    When I saw the first construction vehicle in the 2nd movie I yelled out "Constructicons!" in the theater. I knew what was coming, but clearly the audience thought I was nuts.

  • this is really good documentary. done very professionally. i like it. great effort!

  • He guessed the right year, only a month off, for the sequel. This guy knows his shit.

  • He's got the touch.

  • This guys a retard

  • Why?

  • i 100% agreed with this.

  • lol well atleast you got devastator and soundwave..just... it sucked

  • OMG! The sequel did come out Jully 2009! Dam, I love your knolege of movies.

  • so sad, but so true... =[ i want soundwave back dammit

  • Early on in the cartoon, both the Autobots and the Decepticons are known to the human race. Seeing them becomes more of an everyday occurance, than a surprise for the humans, after a while. The humans are also on good terms with the Autobots, allowing them to build Autobot City in the 12 year interlude after Season 2 and before the Movie.

  • Actually, in the cartoon, humans appeared regularly in the plot, but apart from Spike, Carly, Sparkplug and Chip they were often guest characters like the Mayor or a random Scientist. However, more character focus was on the Transformers. As for the whole WOPR detecting the Autobot City Battle, they likely did pick it up, but decided not to get involved as it was the Autobot's fight and there were no nearby human cities Civilians to protect. Concluded in next comment.

  • It's hard trying to take various elements of various transformers cartoons and movie try to make it realistic and cool as you can and make a cool movie. Bay deserves a 7/10 on that.

  • I liked how they did Optimus and I don't mind Bumblebee. But not really the others. I actually like Megatron and Starscream. But they looked to stupid....I agree they look too....spidery. >> Especially seeing the second one, I know there will be 3. ^^

  • You Are Not Only The BoxOffice Psychic

    your a Movie Psychic as well

    Amazing Just Purely Amazing Man

    Great Video and Great Job

  • Wow man. You really know your shit. And you border on ESP ability. I'm going to show this video to all my friends. Wow. You rock.

  • wow i didnt know that megatrons voice was from mr. smith rofl :DDD

  • It is inevitable, Mr. Optimus.

  • The only thing I disagree with in this review is that the Transformers 1986 movie had a couple season to develop and tell the stories of the personalities of characters, so cramming them all in the movie was fine. Where in the 2007 movie much of the audience didn't know too much about the G1 Cartoon so cramming them all into that film wouldn't work because it would be too hard to develop them all. So it's really not fair to compare the two.

  • Dude. Based on the trailer alone this guy basically plotted the whole movie accurately with only minor detail problems.

    Good call. I mean, not that Michael Bay is known for complex storytelling, but still good call.

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  • WOAH! He guessed the second movie would be released, July 2009. Its coming out June 2009. Thats a guess and a half.

  • Yeah, Soundwave, the Insecticons, the Constructicons and obviously Devastator are all appearing in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Also, the Dinobots, the Triple Changers and Unicron are all rumoured to appear in Transformers 3.

  • yeah well i wonder how unicron would be like in live action cause u know it needs to planet size cgi cause unicron is planet size

  • Unicron is confirmed for the 3rd one. As for the Dinobots I'm not sure.

  • Yeah, I know. The writer, Roberto Orci said in an interview that he would like to introduce Unicron in the third film for scale's sake (notice each film gets darker and bigger, what with Revenge of the Fallen introducing the Fallen and Devastator). Michael Bay is interested in introducing a transforming aircraft carrier, (I know awesomeness!) but personally I have high hopes for an appearance from Astrotrain! Bay wasn't keen on the Dinobots, but knows that they're fan favourites, so who knows.

  • Megatron looks a foot!

  • as I always said..It's all fault of Michael "ASShole" Bay..he sold his soul to the Green Demon....you suck Michael..tTHis is the PROBE that how to make a Flaw with all money and technology availabe and The BEST Franquise of all Tranformers...YOU SUCK MICHAEL BAY..YOU ARE A DISGRACE FOR ALL CLASSICS FANS OF TRANSFORMERS SERIES:::EVEN NEW ONES:::

  • Whose the Green Demon? Hollywood? Shrek?

  • no........

  • Self important Media student.

  • u know i thought the first film was awsome well it does have its flaws i mean no film is perfect not unless its dark knight material

  • well u noe that soundwave is coming out so cool soon and so as devastator

  • whats the music at 1:43 called?

  • unfortunetly they changed his name from spike to sam

  • Can't wait for the 2nd movie to come out. Though it won't feature the Dinobots I hope it will do good enough for a part 3.

  • Wait a minute , you mean to tell me that the original Megatron voice wasn't pick because he didn't fit the design of the new megatron !? Fuck you Bay!

  • Your constant swearing, and random acronyms are sadly not funny.

  • Neither was the fact that Transformers was a disgrace to its name.

  • The only problem I have with your analysis is that you're comparing one film to the other, but really you needed to look at the first 3-parter of the original G1 cartoon and draw your parallels. By the time the animated film was released there had already been 2 seasons of back story released.

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  • They could of atleast make them look like the original g1 transformers

  • Well, when Optimus Prime said, "My bad..", the movie was over. :'(

  • Michael Bay's best film is "The Rock."

  • Agree

  • it's so true !

  • i think your over the top

  • i hope they dont make anymore live action transformers...because that movie sucked

  • Hollywood doesn't care if their films suck ass. If it makes money, instant sequel is on the way.

    Transformers 1 sucked ass but made hella money so they make a sequel. and again and again for infinity.

  • XD instant sequal on the way. fyi this is the best movie ever and only bay could it.

  • Best movie ever? pfft yeah, and my ass if falling off with my balls singing AC/DC's Highway to Hell...get a life! The Transformers movie was awful, I only loved it for the roboaction, but that was it...the best movie? Come on...

  • nothing can suck more than Bay's Transformers. not even the sequel.

  • Hi! Huge fan! Um.... Could you do a preview review of The Spirit? I LOVED that movie. If not, that's cool.

  • I wanted to add something to my last post I forgot. My one MAJOR problem with 2007 compared to 1986 is this. Optimus Prime Vs Megatron It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO(I could continue) Epic in the 1986 version, in 2007 it's a backdrop to watch Sam carry a block. Seriously made it lack in quality. I am a human and I was getting annoyed seeing the humans.

  • TOO MUCH HUMAN INTERACTION

  • Totally On, Don't get me wrong, I "liked" the 2007 movie...however it didn't beat the 1986 movie for everything you said in this video. right on.

  • you were bang on with this review in every way.. the transformer designs are crap, the story was crap, and there was little transformer canon.. A failure for any true transformers fan. James Cameron FTW. lol.

  • too many stupid humans, not enough transformers!

  • Yeah.. um, there are over 6 billion of us on the planet you know.

  • No, in the animated movie, it's '05.

  • It was made in 1986. Thet wanted it to take place in the future.

  • But, that wasn't 1986. It was 2005.

  • 2007

  • It was made in 1986. Thet wanted it to take place in the future.

  • This movie kicked major ass! Best movie ever (in my opinion)!

  • A 2.5 hour advertisement for cars, the US military, and ebay is the best movie ever? how?

  • I don't even think aside from Prime and Bumblebee they put much thought into the designs - I think GM sent them a bunch of cars, said "do these ones" they came up with a bunch of go-bots and then randomly picked character names from any number of catalogues.

    The last time filmmakers stuffed around with may childhood fads it was that god awful He Man movie which introduced dumb characters and ignored a stack of others - at least the story was ok, but the robot designs were lame

  • I was thinking what you said if they would have taken Optimus out of the movie. If they would have done that, then named the movie "Go-Bots", then it probably would've made like 10x more money at the box office.

  • You don't make a Transformers film unless its going to be about Transformers.

  • yea he does need to do more than 3 but megatron dieing from the allspark is sad he should have died and got rebuild again by unicron and have rodimus for the rest of 3 and have Opotimus come back in 5 again and then of they need to make a full star wars 6 episodes

  • Hopfully the next one will be good too.

  • Awesome if only in a perfect James Cameron directed transformers.

  • The biggest annoyance of the new designs was Ironhide, they made him white for fucks sake, WHITE!! They can't even put a little red on him? and what the hell is that big bazooka thing doing on his arm?

  • TF was full of epic awesomeness

    And i think Michael Bay is doing 4 or 5 TF movies

  • Actually if the film was actually about the Transformers it would have been good, but it sucks because they focused too much on the people characters.

  • That's what made it good, audiences were able to relate to Sam more than, I dunno, Ratchet.

  • that was my only real complaint about the live action film. too much attention on the human characters.

  • dude, this review was awesome!!

  • dude nice review and i agree with . great movie wish was more on the same story line , where did this allspark come from >?

    they don't need energon anymore? hmm

  • well...i agree with you...that's not just some kryptonite that fell off from heaven for pete's sake. i somehow still prefer the classics...not the live action due to its bad head design...

    and yes of course...i miss soundwave...and the dinobots...

  • Allspark is technically the Matrix of Leadership. Same thing.

  • no it's not! technically it's vector sigma

  • No,Allspark is a powerful cube to create sparks and robots on Cybertron. Its hell no Matrix.

  • This review fuckin rocks, it has nostalgia elements, good insight, accurate source material and I could go on a long time. Fucking sic!

  • lol war game joke

  • One HUGE gripe I have with the movie is where the f*ck was the Transformers theme song?And the transforming sound is really,REALLY hard to hear.

  • devastator was in the movie, he was the tank.

  • actualy that was brawl they messed up the sub text.

  • Dude!! The Tank is Brawl. Devastator is coming to the sequel.

  • in the movie the tank was Devastator but in the game and toys called the tank brawl.

    but bay says he dose not like the combining bots so dont think Devastator will be in part 2

  • this shit is hilarious!

  • the story that you've assumed was actualy better than the real one.

  • WHY THE FUCK ISNT THERE SOUND WAVE,THE CONSTRUCTICONS,DINO BOTS,JAZZ THE SECOND MOST FREAKIN IMPORTANT CHARACTER,INSECTICONS,PERCEPTE­R THE SMART ASS ROBOT,ASTRO MOTHER FREAKIN TRAIN,DUDE!,theres um THUNDER CRACKER,THAT OTHER HUGE ASS GUY THATS THE SAME SIZE ASS THE CONSTRUCTICONS PUT TOGETHER,WHEEL JACK,RODIMUS PRIME,BLURR i can just keep on freaking going the need to make like 5 more transformer movies for all of them

  • Woah, calm down there bud. If they threw in every fucking robot in the entire series it would've sucked balls. One movie tried cramming a shitload of characters into an hour and a half, it was called Mortal Kombat - Anhialation.

  • very good point maybe they should chase after the 1980 3 or 4 season trnasformers dvd

    thats something to chase after

    i mean seriously that show was the best

  • I didn't go to the theaters to see this movie, though I grew up on the Transformers. But I wait for movies like this to come out on DVD. 3 years and 6 months isn't long to wait.

  • They fixed the illogical physics but made an illogical story with illogical robots that illogically vanish during the story which basically doesn't exist. Bay only does action. Orci and Kurtzman are just generic Hollywood writers. Combine the together and you get Unicrap. Sadly this movie should be called Teen Boy Trying To Get Laid (Robots Included) or Megatron Becomes A Sympathetic Pussy. The REAL Megatron would've just killed the kid, took the cube, and won. This Megatron ball dicks too much.

  • MICAEL BAY WAS A GOOD PICK

  • good job bagging on the original transformers with nitpicks.

    Bay had even more inconsistencies in his film.

    while hindsight is 20/20, and I realize this is pre-movie, you only have to look at Bays filmography to know this was going to be a crap and a travesty.

  • I want u.......... do redo the transformers movie.................. holy sh*t man............. the movie is nothing like the outline u just gave at the end but holy sh*t it would b so awsome if it was

  • You do have a good point there

  • why do you call shia spike?

  • probrably because he resembles him on more than one level. besids i think he is the closest think to the real spike. but thats just how i feel about it.

  • Um... if the title of the film is, "Transformers" then it should be about the Transformers, not people.

    I don't give a dam about Megan Fox or Anthony Anderson, or some military dudes. Who cares.

    Imagine watching a Batman film and Batman was barely in it. That would be gay.

  • with this mentality, you have just cancelled out the fact that they came to earth which is of course inhabited by humans(duhhh!!!!) wouldn't you think it would be inevitable?

  • The G1 cartoons had the same thing. Transformers in disguise on Earth. But you see the Transformers 90% of the time on screen and human characters for 10% of the time on screen.

    The movie is suppose to be about them. Not people. There was a scene with "masturbation talk" What the fk does that have anything to do with Transformers????

  • the g1 series and the movie are two completely different things at two completely different times. imagine for the moment the bloods and crips having a gun battle inin your house with you and your family & friends weather its's 3 or 30, you, your friends and your house will be effected.

  • your right about starscream, but if they bring the other deceptacons back they better have a good reason

    but anyway my main point is that they COULD leave the movie like this, its not an open ending, starscream could have been just getting the fuck outta here, and YES, the deceptacons were DESTROYED then DROPPED into the fucking ocean where they were CRUSHED more and FROZEN

    now to me.......that doesnt sound like a setup for a sequel, but they are still making one i guess

  • ..That's a complete setup for a sequel..

  • This is the # 1 I put in favs MPC, all I can say is keep up the great work, its really appreciated. :D

  • how do megatron and soundwave change size? Who gives a f***! How do they manage to travel from Cybertron to Earth in spaceships when faster than light travel doesn't seem "logically" acceptable.

  • lol your fucking nostradomus

  • Story sucks for new movie

  • lol fail to catch bumble bee...

  • its funyn cuz this movie actually didnt set up ANYTHIGN for a sequal

  • Thats not true, Optimus pulled a piece of the all spark out of Megatrons chest when it was all over and they could easily make something of that if they really wanted to. You also see Starsceam zoom off into space during the credits, wasn't he always the ambitious character? I'm sure that the humans not actually destroying the bodies can play a significant roll too, even if they've supposedly been crushed.

    Hollywood likes to leave open ends for sequels all the time =P

  • See isatura's comment. And when he said at the end, "Any surviving autobots amoungst the stars" etc etc lets meet up some time... and in the credits you see star scream is still alive and flying away into space.

  • special effects lover's wet dream, HA!

  • tranformers was proof that they only care about money. i swear if they would of looked like they were supposed to, i would of loved it no matter what.

  • Bad movie overall. The only Transformers who looked proper were Optimus and Blackout.

  • IronHide looks like he as 95 billion parts per square inch in just one portion of his body.

    I don't so much complexity that I can't tell what the hell the Autobot is.

  • I like this movie...it's fun, lots of action, great effects, and come on...who expected a great story. It's all about robots blowing shit up and killing each other, come on.

  • Yeah but the action didn't really occur until after 80 minutes. The real fight took place first with Optimus and another decepticon which lasted for 5 seconds when Optimus just thrust his sword into the decepticons head. If I wanted to see heads flying, I'd watch Aragorn kill Orcs or Spartan fight Persians.

    The action sucked. Half the time you could tell who was who and where they were being hit. Fergie's boyfriend and his entourage were killing most of the autobots.

  • your review was worth watching

    All you say is true:

    TRANSFORMERS is a business

    their history is waste (but in my heart, g1 transformers is the only real history (ok, forget about all the errors... but they are good for a laugh ;)

    i'm kind of disapointed by the movie, we can barely see the robots and when you see them, it's dark or it's close up or either they are at full speed.

    nice review dude

    sorry i'm a quebecois so i'm french and writing in english is kinda of tough for me!

  • shut the fuck up it was a great movie i also grew up watch original transformers so it not same but it was awesome anyway cant wait for the 2one me joe

  • Thanks for fucking up a favorite Michael Bay.

  • who gives a shit megatron was never suppose to a plane but still was a badass movie

  • Maybe I'm missing something, but Optimus died before Megatron turned into Galvatron. Hence, as far as I know, there is no way Optimus could have showed up at a battle with Galvatron in the 1986 movie.

  • the animation on 3d is awsome but the movie sux

  • i wished they had sticked to the original 80's design or even close. they looked like freaking alien stick insects

  • That was great review. Especially part about Megatron (Welker would be better, and design was worst in the whole movie). And it actually was a prologue to next movie as reviewer said.

  • this is fun to watch AFTER actually seeing the movie. :)

  • Devastator is actually in the cartoon, he's the tank decepticon

  • Which cartoon are you refering to?

    Devastator was a big ass robot made up of all the Constructicons together in the original. Brawl was the tank, and he was a Combaticon - that group that formed Bruticus.

  • The cartoon tank is Brawl. Devastator is 6 Constucticons combined that form Devastator.

  • That's where they fucked up.

  • I also wanted to say that they should have taken a page out of Floro Dery's book of transformer design and created faces that looked a little more humanoid. Something people can see a little of themselves in.

  • That was one of the unrealistic things about the old TV show. Take Arcee. She could be perfectly imitated by a transfan in a weird suit, wearing white makeup. Of course, they could have given the robots holographic faces, as in i, Robot, but maybe Michael Bay was to busy making THE ISLAND and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR to see i, Robot.

  • First of all, I really like the preview review. I think it was really on the money.

    I just wanted to say that I don't think people realize that the same technology that could make robots sentient beings could probably allow them to travel through hyperspace or rearrange their molecular structure to take on smaller or larger shapes. So it would be totally logical for megatron to turn into a hand-held weapon.

  • aw man!i was hoping for hot shot in the movie.

  • was hot shot in the movie because he was my fav

  • No he wasn't

  • What's worse is they killed Jazz in the movie. This movie was terrible. They were better off just drawing the whole damn thing.

  • No place in History for the Transformers???

  • He didn't do it back then, I think he first did it for Cloverfield

  • LMAO th iPod nano xD

  • I uploaded the entire episode if you don't believe me. Its in 3 parts.

  • optimus's trailer falls off if you look closeley

  • Truth is, for me, I knew very little about the Transformers before I saw this movie (except for the Autobot symbol, which I thought was something exclusive to Optimus Prime at the time). At any rate, the movie was a great thing to watch, and it took me quite a bit to look up old Transformer cartoons on Youtube to watch and I was suprised at how good the original cartoon was.

  • Ebay and masturbation have nothing to do with Transformers...

    James Cameron > Michael Bay

  • I agree with you man Megatrons face looks like a transformer threw up everywhere

  • LOOK LIKE A GIANT PUSSY ON HIS FACE

  • haha the excuse off the transformer technology is quantum level omg its the most cheapest way of explaining something in a movie and sounds awesome lol

  • Transformers 2007 was awsome! Effects top notch, story good - and when people say it sucked - how can it - the story is about cars and planes turning into robots and beating the hell out of each other!!! lol

    Thats the sotry - put that 80's concept into the new millenium - with the hot bird love story - hell - got a story - what more can u ask - leats they didn't use the story where prime and co were miniturised and become 'toys' of a giant alien!!

  • its the year 2008 and 2005 looked nothing like that

  • lol cracked out on lucky charms