Jack of Harts

I saw Transformers One today and loved it.

It was a good story, filled with characters that shined in both the characters they were at the moment and the characters they would become. The foreshadowing was well done, and the ragtag band of misfits was awesome to watch go through the movie. I enjoyed it from beginning to end, and consider it one of the best Transformers movies made.

Unlike the live action movies, every character was designed to look like their G1 appearance, even while being different. Like protoforms, you could see what they would become when the toys and cartoon were made on Earth. In this way, it is basically a prequel of the original cartoon. It takes place entirely on Cybertron, so all of the alternate modes are Cybertronian, but once again you can see what they would become when they went to Earth in those modes.

This is true not only of the main characters but also of all the background characters who never even spoke. The backgrounds of many scenes are filled with dozens or hundreds of unique characters. Yes, there are many vehicon drones in some of the scenes, but other scenes are filled with Transformers that have graced the toy shelves for 40 years. Unique color schemes, heads, and body builds spread throughout the scenes. I could see the differences between Ironhide and Sideswipe. Both were background characters with no speaking lines, but they looked uniquely different even though both were candy apple red.

Pink bots, blue bots, green bots, white bots, hundreds of Transformers sprinkled the backgrounds of the scenes, and the inner Transformers geek in me loved scanning the crowds and putting names to each of them. Yes, I am one of those people who will buy the movie and pause it on some of those scenes to see how many characters I can identify. Hehehe. Just the quick glimpses I had in the theatre reminded me of all the bots I wanted or got as a kid. And now. 😉

It was a fun movie, and I could tell the people making it wanted to show us the characters we grew up with, even if only for seconds in many cases. I love it when people make a movie for the fans. It shines with fun and this is no exception.