I <3 Peter Cullen

[torquill]

Hearing Optimus Prime mutter "Oh shit, sorry, my bad" made my week.

Definitely worth seeing. Worth full price, even. I can forgive them the small errors (Beagle 2 was British) and stupidities (let's lead the major battle into a huge metropolitan area!) because the rest of the movie was fun, and well written, and had lovely eye candy. The foley work was especially good.

I think I'd like to watch it again. It's a long film, and I know I missed some things.

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[kitabare.livejournal.com]

Saw it today and it was awesome. It was through no fault in the movie (only the theater itself) that we will be seeing HP free. There were most definately a lot of laughs in the movie. Along with the "My bad." was Jazz's very, erm, African-American way of speaking.

Beagle 2?

[luna-torquill.livejournal.com]

That was the way Jazz always spoke in the cartoon. I was actually pretty fascinated by how accurate the voices and personalities were to the original bots; they were very concerned about doing proper fanservice. Peter Cullen said that doing Optimus again was like "slipping into an old pair of very comfortable shoes that you haven't worn for a while". He did Ironside as well, as he had originally.

Beagle 2 was the Mars probe they talked about -- but Nick and I both caught the offhand remark that it was "NASA's Beagle 2 project". It was actually a British machine, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, though it did fall out of contact and was presumed crashed on the planet. A nitpick, perhaps, but screamingly obvious to anyone who's followed the Mars program at all. (It also didn't carry a rover as cargo.) Not a big deal, and it probably comes under the heading of "plot device".