European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 scene stars and stripes july 2007 photos by dream works and Optimus Battle incl d 0 c c d c d q co 1 u o u fun with robots transformers Choc full of Eye pleasing spectacles there was never any Hope that a film based on a cartoon based on a line of action could be anything More than empty headed but what a spectacle it is ideally designed for a Young Man whose favorite Maga Zines Are popular mechanics and the new film channels the fanboy passion of director Michael Bay and producer Steven Spielberg into a Swift summertime and smash is the word for this hype kinetic which begins with a Mideast robot attack that turns a military base to shrapnel and concludes with a free Orall in downtown los Angeles that batters the City to the connective tissue in Between you roman tic All that Dull stuff gets Short but the films propulsive logic shattering action and absurdist humor deflects All it seems that alien robot warriors that can fold Swiss army and pass for fighter and the entire 2009 general motors product line of muscle have come to Earth in search of the an Obsidian cube that is the source of their the heroic led by opt mus and Megatons evil deceptions learn that the key to the Al Sparks location lies with the unsuspecting Sam Witwicky shia Labe a likable nerd whose great Grandfather discovered it on a voyage to the Arctic being highly advanced products of a technological civilization far Superior to our the robots Settle their differences by blasting each other to new on base if you go transformers is playing at the following military facilities Mann Simonella and on the web visit the official web site at Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel run through the proceed Ings As dauntless servicemen who discover the chink in the aliens if youre making a film whose goal is simply High megaton Bay and Spielberg Are the dream heavy artillery fetishist Bay shreds the envelope in terms of Battle giving us Man machine and Bot on Bot duels of heroic scale and Breakneck Spielberg is the Gold Standard in terms of technical passing along everything he Learned about doomsday Urban warfare from War of the you can see his perfectionism in the sequences where Cadillac and hummers trans morph into towering gladiators with Sheet Metal body and he gives the project needed moments of with a minor metallic Rascal who tiptoes around the edges of the Story Only to be bashed and dismembered like a Mecca no Wile screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex who Learned their Captain Lennox Josh left and Awo Jorge Fig Figueroa Amaury Nolasco fend off an attack by an alien Craft on tvs Xena Warrior Prin Salt the film with sly references to the transformers cartoons the catchphrase More than meets the Eye gets a Good and they Supply plenty of colourful comic Side line from Bernie Mac As the glad handing use car Salesman who Sells Sam a Rusty Auto Ottama to John Turturro As a 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