Review of Transmorphers (2007) by James H — 05 Mar 2010

The only way to describe Transmorphers is as a low budget knock off that borrows from Transformers. A race of robots that can change into vehicles invade earth, and a group of humans who rally together to resist them.

This film is bad in so many ways. Where does one start?

The script is weak, makes no sense, and the plot is full of things that proper exposition would overcome. For instance, what are 'e-mags'?

The acting is woeful, but can actors be criticized if direction is so sloppy?

As for the effects, they are just as bad. According to the plot, the robots used machines that have covered the planet in perpetual night, and bad weather. More likely, this is to disguise the unconvincing computer generated images, which look more like cut scenes in video games from the late nineteen nineties.

They look inferior to the effects in science fiction films made in the late 1970s, where film makers had to rely on cameras rigged on pulley systems, and panned across pieces of styrofoam that had the contents of hundreds of plastic model kits glued onto them.

Laser effects are done using strobe lights and stock effects to simulate explosions. Burning piles of magnesium shot against blue screens look more convincing than what one is subjected to in this film.

Transformers may have been a crowd pleasing pop corn film, but it is still a darn sight more entertaining than this drivel.

AVOID.