Editorial - Would Frank Welker’s Return as Megatron have made any difference?

Recently I saw the new Transformers movie Revenge of the Fallen and one of the few positives about the film I felt was the return of Frank Welker as the voice of Soundwave, one of the key characters from the original TV show and like Megatron, a voice originated by Welker himself.

But like the first Transformers film, Hugo Weaving provides the voice of the character albeit heavily modulated but in this film you can tell its simply him doing his Agent Smith routine although one could also say and indeed some have said in their reviews of the film that Welker was really doing his Dr. Claw voice from Inspector Gadget for the character but there is one question at the heart of all of this that I wish to pose: would having Frank Welker also voice his more iconic role as Megatron in both of the live action films made any difference to how they turned out?

Well that depends on how you feel about it, on the one hand it would have been great to have had Welker voice Megatron and have indeed voiced my opinion on that when I reviewed both this film and the first film but I have also voiced the opinion that even if director Michael Bay reined his ego in and brought him in to voice the character it would not have made much difference in the long run.

And that is due to the fact that both of the live action Transformers movies were simply not very good with too much sexual innuendo, blatant rip offs of other films, very long running times and not enough emphasis on the transformers themselves which are also very poorly written, with Megatron being completely out of character in this new film.

So to sum it all up, Frank Welker voicing Megatron would really not be much of a good thing in the long run as I said before really due to the fact that like Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, he would have been wasted in what have been two very bad films and that’s my say on this.