Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Tony Hicks column: Toys! From outer space!(Column)

From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) | Date: July 2, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Hicks

Jul. 2--HOLLYWOOD is so busy traipsing off to collective rehab, it still can't come up with any new ideas. Now that it's run out of old TV shows to rip off for movies, it's moved to the next sublevel of creative hell: movies based on toys.

"Transformers" is a perfect example. It's based on the '80s toys that could be turned from one exciting vehicle-robot-thingie into another exciting vehicle-robot-thingie. And while I'd always thought they came from Japan, apparently they come from outer space.

Since Hollywood is now about cultivating film ideas ...

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