Transformers (film)
- Transformers is an elaborate coverup in the movie continuity family.
Transformers is a live action movie released by Dreamworks, with Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Michael Bay. Its principal stars are Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, and Megan Fox. Character designs and special effects are being done by Industrial Light and Magic, the effects-wizards behind the Star Wars films.
Originally slated to release in the summer of 2006, the film arrived in US theatres on July 3, 2007 and will hit UK theaters on July 27. The Australian release date is June 28, 2007 and premiered there on June 12, 2007. Take that, everywhere else.
Prequel Material
Prior to the movie's release IDW Publishing released a four issue limited comic series entitled "Prime Directives", which chronicles the events which bring the Transformers to Earth. A novel, Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, is about the truth behind humankind's first venture into space and how that event is related to the Transformers' presence on Earth, both past and present.
Since the movie's plot brings the audience into things from Sam's POV, as he learns of not only the Transfomers' war but mankind's past history with Cybertronians, the prequel material provides a better handle on the intricate storyline.
Storyline
The movie features a small, yellow Autobot named Bumblebee(except he's actually about twice the size of the original, and larger than Jazz), who befriends the teenage human, S(am, not Pike). Witwicky. He and his fellow Autobots, the (Puke Green, barely appears in movie) medic Ratchet, the rough-and-tumble cowboy Ironhide(who bears no resemblence, visually to Ironhide, or in the case of his legs, anything at all decipherable), and the smooth and super-cool Jazz (who has a car hood for a chest and a visor for eyes) are led by Optimus Prime, a red and blue(tacky flames) robot with a distinctive mouthplate, windows in his chest and a grill in his stomach who transforms into a (long nose) truck. Optimus Prime's nemesis is an evil, silver (spiky chrome turd) robot named Megatron, leader of the Decepticons, whose ranks include a pissed-off tank named Brawl(Or Devestator), a mechanical scorpion named Scorponok(I have no idea why there's even a parallel being drawn here, Scropy bears no resemblence to any past ) and a scheming, traitorous jet fighter named Starscream(who has one line in English in the entire movie, looks like a chicken ape, and well, isn't actually all that traitorous, and most certainly isn't the effiminite drama queen the character is popularised as), who has designs on the Decepticon leadership. Both sides meet in battle on Earth, during their search for the mysterious legendary artifact that can grant new Transformer life.
This, of course, is nothing like Transformers. (And this is nothing like witty Sarcasm).
Known characters
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
|---|---|---|
Soundtrack
On July 3, 2007, Warner Bros Records will release a Transformers soundtrack full of songs from or inspired by the motion picture.
- 1. "What I've Done" - Linkin Park
- 2. "Doomsday Clock" - Smashing Pumpkins
- 3. "This Moment" - Disturbed
- 4. "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" aka "Fiction" - Goo Goo Dolls
- 5. "Pretty Handsome Awkward" - The Used
- 6. "Passion's Killing Floor" - HIM
- 7. "What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost?" - Taking Back Sunday
- 8. "Second To None" - Styles Of Beyond
- 9. "End Of The World" - Armor For Sleep
- 10. "Retina and the Sky" - Idiot Pilot
- 11. "Technical Difficulties" - Julien-K
- 12. "Transformers Theme" - Mute Math
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