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 was June 28, 2007, and premiered there on June 12, 2007. Take that, everywhere else.

Main cast

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bumblebee (Mark Ryan) Jazz (Darius McCrary) Ironhide (Jess Harnell) Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) Ratchet (Robert Foxworth)	Barricade (Jess Harnell) Blackout Bonecrusher (Jimmie Wood) Brawl Frenzy (Reno Wilson) Megatron (Hugo Weaving) Scorponok Starscream (Charles Adler)	Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) Bobby Bolivia (Bernie Mac) Glen Whitmann (Anthony Anderson) Epps (Tyrese Gibson) John Keller (Jon Voight) Lennox (Josh Duhamel) Maggie Madsen (Rachael Taylor) Simmons (John Turturro) Judy Witwicky (Julie White) Ronald Witwicky (Kevin Dunn) Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)

Short synopsis

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In short, giant robots blow each other up.

The movie features Sam Witwicky, a plucky teenager who just wants a cool car, but gets more than he bargained for. The beater he and his father take home is actually Bumblebee, an alien robot from the planet Cybertron, who plants Sam down in the middle of a civil war between Bumblebee's benevolent Autobot comrades and the evil Decepticons who threaten the galaxy's peace. Both sides are after the All Spark, a mysterious artifact that landed on Earth 10 thousand years ago. The approaching robot-against-robot battle is a coming-of-age moment for Sam, who learns the meaning of his family's motto, "No sacrifice, no victory."

Full synopsis

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The movie features Sam, a teenage human of the Witwicky family. He's 16 years old, and his father, Ron, agrees to buy him half a car. At Bobby Bolivia's used car lot, he ends up buying half the alien robot Bumblebee. As the story begins, Bumblebee is the only member of the heroic Autobot faction on Earth as the evil Decepticons move around undercover, searching for secret US government information on the whereabouts of their leader, Megatron, who went missing from the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron more than 12,000 years ago. He was in pursuit of the All Spark, a nigh-omnipotent monolith capable of bringing any machines near it to life, and the Decepticons want it back to create an army.

The movie cuts between four subplots, revolving around Sam and his love interest Mikaela Banes, a group of United States Air Force personnel led by Captain William Lennox in Qatar, a confused Secretary of Defense John Keller who doesn't know what to make of the attacks on the US government by these "robuts" until a Man in Black from Sector Seven lets him know that aliens exist, and a pair of cryptographers. The main robots are Bumblebee in his Chevrolet Camaro alt mode, the monstrous Blackout with his pet Scorponok, 1.4 meter tall spastic hacker Frenzy, and Barricade in his alt mode as a police Saleen Mustang. After transforming to rescue Sam and Mikaela from Barricade, Bumblebee summons Optimus Prime and the other Autobots to Earth, into which they crash as asteroid-like Protoforms.

Then things get really interesting.

Production staff

Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
Executive Producer: Brian Goldner
Director: Michael Bay
Producers: Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce
Screenwriters: John Rogers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci
Production Designer: Jeff Mann
Musical score: Steve Jablonsky

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.

It should be noted, however, that some dialogue in the film contradicts the prequel material, specifically pertaining to the years in which the frozen Megatron was moved from the Arctic to Hoover Dam.

Soundtrack

On July 3, 2007, Warner Bros Records released 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