reminiscing about the future

We saw Transformers last night. It was extremely enjoyable in a cheesy, excessive explosiony kind of way. And despite the fact that it's a two-hour commercial for the US armed forces, it holds an unexpected balance of anti-administration sentiment. And Shia LeBoeuf is hilarious--who knew that actual talent would ever come out of the Disney Channel's craptastic lineup of pukitude? Amazing. And whatever the movie lacks, it certainly isn't humor. Which is the only transformer to die in the entire movie? Oh yeah--it's the black one. In what is most surely the next blockbuster action trilogy, the only minority robot is the first to bite the dust. Oh Jazz, alas we barely knew ye. Your smooth moves and hip-hop lingo will be sorely missed.

I confess that I never watched the show as a kid, but I understand the nostalgic appeal to my generation and I'm willing to support this endeavor, as long as my fellows support me when Jerry Bruckheimer's live-action Strawberry Shortcake flick comes out in 2009. Of course, if you're too antsy to wait, we do have JJ Abrams' Rainbow Brite movie coming out in early 2008 to tide us over:


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Rumor has it that Kirsten Dunst nabbed the starring role after Abrams saw her badass Samurai sword-wielding interpretation of the character. So, the 'goodness and light' angle may be bent a little, but the rainbows and fur-lined miniskirt are still in. Awesome.