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Transformers (2007) Movie Review Summary

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese, Jon Voight

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A teenager discovers that his ancestor's glasses contain the location of an artifact that could help an alien race take over Earth. The film begins with the destruction of a distant planet called Cybertron. On it, two warring factions-- the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron-- fight while they search the universe for a cube called the AllSpark, which possesses immense power. If the Autobots find it, they will use it to win the war and rebuild their planet peacefully, but if the Decepticons find it, they will use it to expand their power throughout the universe. Megatron locates the AllSpark on Earth, but when he crashes in the North Pole, he becomes permanently frozen in the ice cap. Eventually, Megatron is found an explorer named Witwicky, whose glasses become imprinted by Megatron with the location of the AllSpark. Flash forward a hundred years, and Sam Witwicky, the explorer's descendant, is an average teenager who has his great-great-grandfather's glasses. As other Decepticons make their way around Earth looking for Megatron and the AllSpark, Sam buys a used car that turns out to be a Transformer itself-- an Autobot named Bumblebee. Bumblebee contacts the rest of the Autobots, who inform Sam that his glasses possess a map to an artifact that could very well mean the end of humanity if placed into the wrong hands. However, when government agents discover Sam is in contact with Transformers, they take him to where Megatron and the AllSpark are located, inadvertently leading the Decepticons right to the leader. It's up to Sam to help Optimus Prime and the Autobots defeat the Decepticons and destroy the AllSpark once and for all.
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Best part of story, including ending: It's got its moments, especially in the action at the end, but overall, Transformers is far too long and needlessly complicated for a movie that should just be about fighting robots.

Best scene in story: The first fight between the Autobots and the Decepticons outside of the Hoover Dam is big and epic and full of robots crunching one another.

Opinion about the main character: Sam is actually a surprisingly engaging lead, mostly thanks to Shia LaBeouf's charisma. The script doesn't give him much, but he makes it work.

The review of this Movie prepared by R.W. Hainline a Level 29 Superb Fruit-Dove scholar

Script Analysis of Transformers (2007)

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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book Actual chase scenes or violence 50%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle 20%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% **Fantasy or Science Fiction?**    -   science fiction story Invasion from human defender POV?    -   overt invasion (very visible of monsters/aliens) War and Invasion    -   Yes Major kinds of combat:    -   gun battles Giant monster movie?    -   Yes Kind of monster    -   Giant Robot

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Profession/status:    -   student Age:    -   a teen Ethnicity/Nationality    -   White (American)

Setting

Earth setting:    -   20th century (1970's to Present) Takes place on Earth?    -   Yes

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately detailed references to deaths Tone of movie    -   fearful Kinds of F/X    -   Things that change shape/morph    -   exploding vehicles    -   exploding bombs    -   exotic spaceships    -   exotic aliens    -   exotic big cities    -   exotic alien landscape Is this movie based on a    -   TV show

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