Order of the Autobots

AnarchAngel and his wife enjoyed the latest Harry Potter movie. Like most of the Potter films, the main criticism seems to be that Order of the Phoenix had too much ground to cover in such a short amount of time. If anything, Harry Potter would probably do better as an annual mini-series.

Amy and I saw Transformers last week. It was quite good. The plot of the film is kind of weak and hokey, but (1) so was the TV show (2) it's a Michael Bay movie what did you expect? The main problem with the movie is that the characterizations of the Transformers themselves were weak. Optimus Prime is dead on, but none of the others get significant screen time except Bumblebee. And Bumblebee can't talk for most of the film. Instead we get a lot of Sam Witwicky (not Spike?), Mikaela (not Carly?), and his dad who was definitely not Sparkplug. Oh and most of the soldiers, NSA teens, and sundry side characters could have been scrapped entirely. But hey, cars turn into robots and then back into cars. It really doesn't get old even though you have.