Moomalade

Transformers was a bit of a disappointment.
On the one hand I really enjoyed the battles between the Autobots and Decepticons and on the other hand I was annoyed by much of the rest of the film.
Unlike the original movie much of the plot revolved around humans and I was left wondering why they weren’t brave enough to make a movie purely about robots from outer space. If you want to make a movie about a boy and his car, that’s fine, go and make one. I just don’t understand why anyone would want to endure the flimsy human plot threads when there are extremely cool giant robots, from outer space, walking around, talking, fighting and transforming into vehicles.

War of the Worlds was just the same. Much of the action followed a father looking after his children during an alien invasion, which pretty much happened in the background.

It’s such a shame because Spielberg hit the perfect balance in the first Jurrasic Park . With any luck they’ll commission another Transformers movie and both Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg will be busy making the movies they want to make in a genre where they belong.

I did love the battles though.