Yes, I am guilty of lapping up the season's blockbusters. As a kid, I remember shunning Transformers for cartoons with more sophisticated storylines like My Little Pony and Smurfs (rotfl). I can only remember Optimus Prime as the rather fugly-looking red and blue truck.


However, when the Transformers logo started appearing in trailers last year, I was dead excited. I mean, I rather doubt they'd have a movie remake of Smurfs (imagine Papa Smurf in his red hat and tunic, I mean, they did a great job with Gollum and all, but there's only so much CGI can achieve) or My Little Pony for that matter (it'd be quite dificcult to get ponies of rainbow colours without being cruel to the animals).


So I scrambled along with everyone else amidst full houses in kl cinemas for a ticket. Have you checked the cinemas lately? It's like, all of a sudden, everyone's stopped buying pirated wares and coming out in full force to watch movies legally. I tried at least 3 times to get the Transformers tickets before this. It's quite a nightmare.

I have taken to watching late night reruns of kiddie series on Disney channel during my holidays, and have gotten quite atached to Even Stevens, starring Shia La Beouf as the cheeky Louis Stevens, who always manage to get himself into awful scrapes but always come through in the end. I thought Shia would have a more serious role in Transformers. But I am glad to see that it's just a grown up Louis, still as klutzy as ever and still coming through somehow.


I really liked Transformers. After that much of robotic onslaught in the cinema, I half expected my cute little Kelisa to transform and roll out on the way home.

Transform! Jeng jeng jeng!