There is an Autobot logo on a bottle of soda…and why am I not geeking out about this?”
The truth is that I’m just not excited for this summer’s Transformers. And as a dyed in the matrix Insecticon, this is very troubling to me.
When the film was first announced, I was juiced. Spielberg was a producer, they’re throwing some money at it…so what if that hack Micheal Bay is directing—he can direct action and as long as the film’s fun… And alas, that’s what I’m worried about—the fun. After the teaser trailer was released last year, I’ve had this sad feeling that a movie based off of a cartoon that was created to sell toys is taking itself far too seriously. I don’t care that the robots look different than their cartoon counterparts (ok, Optimus Prime having a mouth is a little troublesome…but I’m fine with the general look of everything else) or that Megatron doesn’t turn into a handgun—it’s that I’m worried that a film that probably needs to be a little tongue-in-cheek will instead be using that tongue (Optimus Prime’s, presumably) to speak self-important cliché’d dialogue: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
In all honesty, I think Brett Ratner would have been a better choice. Yup, I can’t believe I typed that either, but his slight camp sense-of-humor is the sensibility I think Transformers needs…and I think the action in X3 holds up to any blockbuster.
I generally don’t like to judge a film before I see it, and I’ll give the film a chance once it’s released. Even if it is the worse thing ever, I’ll still have Transformers: The Movie.
Still, I thought I would vent about my apprehension. It could still be good-it’ll just need a little energon…and a lot of luck.
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