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The sound effects made me love it.

Great strip; feel like putting the DVD in TF DVD in now!!

That should have actually said…

Great strip; feel like putting on the TF DVD now!!

Great great work! It’s pretty rare for me to laugh out loud at a comic, but this one had me rolling. Top notch execution on those tranformation panels.

Let’s be honest; who here *didn’t* make that little noise when playing with their Transformers as a kid?

What sound effects DIDN’T I make when I was a kid?

Hey, everyone has a guilty pleasure. Sometimes even a more mature perspective fails its save versus nostalgia. And other times you come to realize just how much Return of the Jedi sucks!

I always wondered how to write out that noise.

I always added two more syllables to the transforming sound effect than you have here. Clearly you made a mistake.

I’m sorry, but its got to be kik-ka-kik-ka-ko. let’s get this clear, people

Movies don’t have to be smart to be good. I love Micheal Bay movies because he understands what a great action movie needs and doesn’t try to do anything else.

I’ll never understand Transformer’s positive reviews. Hey, big budget special effects blockbusters usually aren’t for me. Nothing wrong with that or with the people who do like them. But the same critics who would savage something like Van Helsing gave Transformers glowing reviews when I don’t see much of a difference at all.

“I love Micheal Bay movies because he understands what a great action movie needs”

Corny jokes and muddy special effects?

Transformers movie is great if you watch them at home with a remote control to fast forward any scene without the transformers and slow down the spastic action scenes with them.

“understands what a great action movie needs”

Absolutely, which is jokes about masturbation. I can’t tell you how many times I was playing with Transformers as a kid and I thought to my self, the only way this could be better is if we could get Shia LaBeouf worried that his parents think he’s masturbating. Imagine how good Apocalypse Now would have been if it had a kid awkwardly denying he’s masturbating. Best scene ever.

That, and the really “”urban”" robot. Fantastic.

Transformers delivered exactly what I was expecting – Big freaking robots fighting each other in downtown LA. Considering that this was my expectation going in, it delivered on all levels. Can’t say that it was a good movie, but it did deliver.

Someone needs to figure out what sound effects guy created that sound. It’s awesome. I mean, I know the show wasn’t the greatest show out there, but that sound is classic and unique. No matter how much I may dislike the recent movie, I can’t help but smile when that sound’s in there, god help me!

Again, last panel didn’t seem necessary.

I keep clicking on these, yet I have only laughed once.

Disappointed again (in myself for not learning)

Trust me Oz, you aren’t going to be laughing much.

But in fairness I thought this one was cute. Not funny though..

“Absolutely, which is jokes about masturbation. I can’t tell you how many times I was playing with Transformers as a kid and I thought to my self, the only way this could be better is if we could get Shia LaBeouf worried that his parents think he’s masturbating. Imagine how good Apocalypse Now would have been if it had a kid awkwardly denying he’s masturbating. Best scene ever.”

Really, Ted? ‘Apocalypse Now’? That was what you thought of?

“Hm, I really hate that there was a throwaway joke about masturbation in Transformers. That was totally out of place in an action-comedy. What’s another action comedy that was completely successful without resorting to a throwaway joke about masturbation? What’s the most successful action-comedy of all time? Oh, I’ve got it, fucking APOCALYPSE NOW”.

Shut up, Ted.

Action-comedy? Action-COMEDY? That movie was supposed to be half funny? I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but I now think even less of the movie. I was charitably assuming that Transformers was just a bad action movie, but you’ve now shown me how it failed on two levels.

And sure, the masturbation joke may have been throwaway, but that is merely the best example of Shia LaBeouf’s whiny, hopeless hero. In a decent action-comedy the heroes may be funny, but they are also generally don’t spend the entire movie whining.

Finally, Dalarsco called it a “great action movie” not a “great action-comedy” so if you should be telling anyone to shut up it should be him.

I’m sorry, but its got to be kik-ka-kik-ka-ko. let’s get this clear, people

um… no it’s ur-ur-ur-ur-ur.

I thought she was going to actually come around the obvious glory that is the Transformers toys in the last panel.

Transformers were great and so was the cartoon – Go-bots (aka Robo-Machines) were better, but their cartoon was terrible.

The first half of the Transformers film was so boring that I never bothered watching the second half.

Should have stopped at the dirty look.

The same applies to the new Sta Trek movie. All special effects and less real plot than a Transformers movie.

Nice toon…

Great point!

the same critics who would savage something like Van Helsing gave Transformers glowing reviews when I don’t see much of a difference at all.

I can’t tell the difference between a $10 wine and a $100 wine by taste alone, but critics and connoisseurs can. I can, however, tell the difference between Van Helsing and Transformers…

Movies don’t have to be smart to be good.

I think you’re confusing good with fun.

And, I think you’re premise would still be wrong.
Why are you defending a movie for being overly dumb?
You really think it wouldn’t have been as good, if not better, if it had been smart as well?

I love Micheal Bay movies because he understands what a great action movie needs and doesn’t try to do anything else.

Michael Bay thinks that having action happen outside of the frame is a good idea, and that people don’t want any intelligence in films.
I find it bizarre that you feel such a need to defend a man’s work, by saying that it’s good that it’s shallow and stupid.
It’s just such a weird argument to see put forth.

Really, Ted? ‘Apocalypse Now’? That was what you thought of?

“Hm, I really hate that there was a throwaway joke about masturbation in Transformers. That was totally out of place in an action-comedy. What’s another action comedy that was completely successful without resorting to a throwaway joke about masturbation? What’s the most successful action-comedy of all time? Oh, I’ve got it, fucking APOCALYPSE NOW”.

Shut up, Ted.

I thought Ted’s comment was pretty funny.
Using Apocalypse Now not only highlighted that masturbation jokes aren’t nessecary, but contrasted some junk like Transformers with a work of excellence such as Apocaylpse Now, making it even more absurd that people such as Dalarsco – and presumably yourself – are so needy to defend it.
It’s like listening to someone tell you that John Byrn’es Namor run was a better comic than From Hell, because he knew that it didn’t have to be smart to be a comic.

that transformers movie was a piece of crap.

I think you’re confusing good with fun.

It sounds like you’re confusing good with clever.

There’s nothing wrong with a well done big dumb fun action movie.

I don’t thing Transformers was one – I found it too boring for that, but other films like Con Air and Men in Black can get away with being great fun while being dumb at the same time. I would class those films as good.

“It sounds like you’re confusing good with clever.”

I think you’re confusing clever with not dumb. Men in Black wasn’t clever, but I don’t think it was stupid either. And there’s a difference with acknowledging a movie’s silliness, and being completely oblivious to it. It’s that lack of awareness that make a not-clever movie dumb.

Cars transforming into Robots will always be cool. It’s really that simple.

I found it too boring for that, but other films like Con Air and Men in Black can get away with being great fun while being dumb at the same time.

Even as a fourteen year old I wasn’t a big Men In Black fan, and Con Air is enjoyable once.
Watch it again, and a whole lot of nothing happens.
Michael Bay’s earlier film The Rock would be a better example, but it actually tried very hard not to be dumb – spending time on characters and clever dialouge etc.

I’m old, so it probably comes as no surprise that I do not and have never found Transformers to be the least bit interesting (well, OK, for two minutes actually transforming one, but then I thought “OK, that’s it? Eh.” Despised both the cartoons and the movies), but I do have to say I’m with Josh on this one. Screw it! If it’s fun, go ahead and do it and give a hearty grinning finger to the shame police!