TRANSFORMERS

'''TRANSFORMERS. Michael Bay, dir.''' Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and John Rogers, story and script, based on TV series 1984-87, and Hasbro toys. USA: Dreamworks and Paramount (primary prod./dist.), 2007. Jeff Mann, production design.

Sci-Fi summer blockbuster film. See for large Transformers assuming forms of power in US culture: muscle cars, trucks, military aircraft--but also threatening smaller forms with invertebrate suggestions (insects, crabs, and such). Since Transformers do not appear to observe the usual rule of conservation of matter/energy, it's hard to generalize about what they say about large vs. small robots; note though images of trapped robotic Gullivers controlled, and tortured, by Lilliputian humans.

RDE, 8 July 2007