Ratatouille: Loved it. I was never a big fan of CG films; I didn't like Toy Story, Shrek, or any of the other old CG movies until I saw The Incredibles, so I went to Ratatouille with low expectations and was blown away. The story is fun, the jokes and comedy are solid, and the animation is awesome! It's not a cookie-cutter movie, so it was actually entertaining. Recommended "MUST SEE" movie. What more needs to be said?
Transformers: I read a review on MSN saying that Transformers was "Fun, but overdone." That is an understatement. The movie starts off great when they introduce the first Decepticons and it gets better when they show the first fight between Bumblebee and Barricade because you get your first taste of the Transformers transforming from car to robot and back in the midst of battle. Then it started to go down hill with the arrival of Optimus Prime and the other Autobots: the comedic elements that made the movie fun in the beginning were getting WAY overplayed, there were some scenes that should never have been in the movie, and the storyline also makes absolutely no sense because the writers are visibly steering the plot-line to an unnecessary Battle Royale. Without giving away too much, one scene in this battle depicts the main character Sam (if you know anything about Transformers, the main character should have been Spike) racing a Decepticon capable of flight to the top of a twenty-story building a-la Nick Cage racing to try and signal off the F-18s from destroying Alcatraz in The Rock--Michael Bay directed both movies--and for some reason, the mach-speed capable Decepticon is always a few steps behind. While trying to understand how a human can outrun a three-story robot up twenty flights of stairs, I'm also trying to understand why he needed to run to the top of the building, or why a flesh-and-blood human would be tasked with this mission in the first place!
In short, the end of the movie reeks of the '80s "against all odds" approach to movie storylines, only to the point of making the movie that's supposed to be somewhat realistic into a completely unbelievable debacle. I liken this movie to microwaving popcorn: it started off great and you could smell the buttery goodness as it got going, but instead of taking the popcorn out and serving it up after a few minutes, the producers left the popcorn in the microwave for the full five minutes and completely ruined the entire bag while setting off the smoke alarms. My prediction: Fanbois will love it, but purists like myself will always wonder what could have been.
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