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Pros
If you imagine the grander of independence day in terms of special effects wow factor and pace; combine that with the great emotional connection to characters that spielberg typically brings you get the idea. As far as movie tie-ins go, this one isn't... Read More
This is the first of a planned trilogy by dreamworks. The book is a more mature interpretation of the transformers story. There is some lovely discussion and verbal dissection of their science, culture, and physiology. There are some bot names that ar... Read More
Cons
Unlike ghosts of yesterday, this book is written in a very emotionless way. The book still contains the unnecessary foul language and the bothersome * suggestions.
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Quality
While im fine with that i did feel a bit unsatisfied with the ending
If you enjoyed the movie you will certainly be pleased with the book
Generally i have no problem with the reworkingmodernizing of the transformer robots and their disguise modes
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Overall despite some hollow spots and more than one name fail situation veiled threat was a fast and easy read and a good lead... Read More
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- This product had a total of 71 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 13 2022.
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If you enjoyed the movie you will certainly be pleased with the book
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Ingnore the chick who put 2 stars and said there was to much langauge
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The story itself was a nice fillin between the first and second liveaction tf movies helping to flesh out some of the more vague and underdeveloped plot points such as where the two different objectives of starscream and soundwave and the other decepticons still loyal to the presumably deceased megatron originated leading into movie 2
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To wit in this book on the autobot side we add an altmode tow truck named salvage which is the name of a wellknown bot character from the recent youngeraudience themed flashanimation tf series rescue bots who transforms into a recycling collection vehicle and is clearly not the same warrior individual described in this book and a small altmodemotorcycle character named knockout which is the name of a very wellknown decepticon character made famous in his role as megatrons medic on the nemesis in the recent cgi tf runaway hit series transformers prime
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These name duplications are very distracting in a thoroughly unecessary and needless way and as i have said in other reviews really mess up the fluidity of the read
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Did you think that a story with giant alien robots from another planet should be a bit more
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The jerky pacing is smoothed out the multiple story lines which didnt get enough screen time in the movie to be useful are detailed out here and actually serve a purpose
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In short alan dean foster took a really bad screenplay and made a really good scifi yarn from it
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