00:05In a good movie, a character needs to change and evolve.
00:09These movies take that idea to a new level.
00:13Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Movie Transformations.
00:24For this list, we're focusing on movies that feature a character
00:27undergoing an impressive on-screen physical transformation.
00:36And if you're also interested in the changes some actors go through when they gain or drop weight for a
00:42role,
00:42check out our video of the Top 10 Actor Body Transformations.
00:46Our goal is to create the best army in history.
00:49Number 10, Weakling to Warrior, Captain America The First Avenger.
00:54At the end of this week, we will choose that man.
00:56Let's go!
00:57He will be the first in a new breed of super soldiers.
01:01Captain America wasn't always Captain America.
01:03He started out as Steve Rogers, a scrawny, sickly little guy who was soundly rejected for military service in World
01:10War II.
01:10Sorry, son.
01:12Look, just give me a chance.
01:13You're being eligible on your asthma alone.
01:16Is there anything you can do?
01:17I'm doing it.
01:19I'm saving your life.
01:22Determined to help the Allied cause, Rogers volunteers for a highly experimental super soldier program.
01:36Son of a bitch did it.
01:37But you know what they say, no pain, no gain.
01:40However, we'd say it was worth it in this case, with results that have to be seen to be believed.
01:53Who the hell are you?
01:55The first of many.
01:57Cut off one head.
02:00Tomorrow shall take its place.
02:02Get clump in here.
02:04Now!
02:05Number 9, Changing for the Ladies, The Nutty Professor.
02:09Morning.
02:09Hi, Professor.
02:11Morning.
02:11The 1996 version of The Nutty Professor is full of transformations.
02:21I'm dead.
02:22I'm dead.
02:23Look at my cheekbones.
02:24After all, Eddie Murphy's Sherman clump, as well as most of the other members of the clump family,
02:29are played by a very much transformed Murphy.
02:32You know what your problem is?
02:34It don't work out.
02:35It's exercise.
02:36Look at me.
02:36That's a muscle.
02:37Oh.
02:38You fat.
02:39I'm muscle.
02:39Oh.
02:40Look at my little Bill.
02:41He's a little Hercules.
02:42But it's the moments when clumsy, affable Sherman clump metamorphoses into suave, smooth
02:47buddy love that take the prize in this hilarious double identity comedy.
02:52Jamie!
02:53Don't do this!
02:53You need me!
02:57No, I don't!
02:59You fat ass!
03:02Take a bow!
03:04Bluff a butt!
03:06I fell awake!
03:08Somebody better call an exorcist!
03:09Number 8, Good Truck, Better Hero, Transformers.
03:13Are you Samuel James Witwicky?
03:16Are you Samuel James Witwicky?
03:16Descendant of Archibald Witwicky?
03:19I know your name.
03:21Yeah?
03:22My name is Optimus Prime.
03:25If the Nutty Professor was full of transformations, then Transformers is jam-packed to overflowing
03:30with them.
03:46After all, the movie is based on toys that change from one form to another.
03:50They all make an impact, but there's nothing quite like the moment when Optimus Prime and
03:55the other Autobots make their real selves known to Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
04:10It's almost like this is the reason CGI was invented.
04:20Bumblebee, stop lubricating the max.
04:23Get that thing to stop, huh?
04:25Number 7, Big Green Guy, The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers.
04:42It's not Bruce Banner's fault that getting him angry turns him from a reasonable, likable
04:46guy into a rampaging monster with anger management issues.
05:03That's just what happens when a guy gets stuck in the middle of a deadly gamma ray explosion.
05:07I don't get a suit of armor.
05:09I'm exposed.
05:12Like a nerve.
05:13It's a nightmare.
05:14As inconvenient as it may be for Banner, audiences are thrilled with his split personality problem.
05:20And the transformation sequence is always a highlight of any film that features The Incredible Hulk.
05:25That's my secret, Captain.
05:29I'm always angry.
05:30Oh, no...
05:38Give us that demon, my love.
05:40Give us that demon, my love.
05:40Number 6, Reed makes the golem The Lord of The Rings The Return of the King.
05:45Why?
05:47It's because...
05:49It's my birthday and I want it.
05:52Gollum is one of the most fascinating characters in the whole Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
05:57My precious.
06:06And Peter Jackson brilliantly shows the lengthy transformation from the normal Hobbit Smeagol to the creepy Gollum,
06:12as he's corrupted by the power of the One Ring.
06:22Letting the audience observe the startling change over a lengthy passage of time, rather than in one moment.
06:29We even forgot our own name.
06:34The effect is excruciating, yet thrilling, and the viewer feels he's part of the painful process.
06:48Where the hell are we?
06:53Number 5. Don't mess with Mystique, the X-Men franchise.
07:01Firelight!
07:05You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.
07:10The mutant, known as Mystique, is a shapeshifter, so her entire screen career is about transformations.
07:17Impersonating Wolverine, Magneto, a United States Senator, Jean Grey, whoever's at hand.
07:34Sometimes using her powers to manipulate others, sometimes using them just to mess with people's minds.
07:39Mystique is a vital ally of Magneto.
07:50Picking one single transformation as the most impressive is impossible.
07:55It's the cumulative effect that really counts here.
07:58Then why not stay in disguise all the time?
08:01You know?
08:03Look like everyone else.
08:05Because we shouldn't have to.
08:13Number 4. Pulling himself together.
08:15Terminator 2. Judgment Day.
08:26The T-1000 is the ultimate killing machine.
08:29Designed to be unstoppable, it can take the form of just about anything, making it a true master of disguise.
08:36Must be a bad lucky day.
08:46Throughout T2, the T-1000 takes on a range of identities and shapes.
08:51Get out.
08:57But, the most memorable occurs after he has seemingly been blasted into a million molten pieces.
09:02Hasta la vista, baby.
09:10But then, manages to reform.
09:22Number 3. Leaving while still ahead, The Thing.
09:26What is that?
09:29Is that a man in there? Or something?
09:33Whatever it is, they burn it up in a hurry.
09:36John Carpenter's The Thing is about an alien creature that physically mimics other life forms.
09:45The film has its most memorable moment, when a doctor is operating on a body, which turns out to be
09:51the creature.
09:52Clear!
09:55The grotesque imagery involving teeth where they are never meant to be, and a metamorphosis into a head with spidery
10:02legs, is nightmare-inducing.
10:08In the best possible way.
10:09You gotta be f***ing kidding.
10:12Kill it with fire, Kurt Russell.
10:14Kill it with fire.
10:23That's disgusting.
10:24Number 2. A lengthy evolution, The Fly.
10:38In the original version of The Fly, the creation of the title character took place in an instant.
10:44You'll be alright now. I know it's worked!
10:49In David Cronenberg's amazingly reimagined version, the viewer watches, as Jeff Goldblum's scientist is slowly ravaged by the effects of
10:58his experiment.
10:59No compassion. No compromise.
11:03We can't trust the insect.
11:05The transformation takes the bulk of the film's running time.
11:15And every dropping tooth, and every piece of skin turning gloppy and gooey, is shown in horrifying, if fascinating detail.
11:31Before we reveal our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
11:36Please! You gotta help me! Be a pal! Call that beetle! Call anybody!
11:45Mama!
11:50Like this?
11:52You gotta ask.
12:05You gotta go!
12:17Number 1. From Man To Wolf. Painfully.
12:20An American Werewolf in London.
12:23I let God fire!
12:28I'm burning up!
12:30Ever since Lon Chaney Jr. donned fur and fangs in The Wolfman.
12:34While more recent screen wolves, such as Harry Potter's Remus Lupin,
12:37carry on the lycanthropic tradition,
12:40the top prize for movie transformations remains that
12:42in John Landis' An American Werewolf in London.
12:45Help me, Jack!
12:55I didn't mean to call you a meatloaf, Jack!
12:57We always knew changing into a wolf had to be uncomfortable,
13:00but this film showed us just how involved
13:03and how intensely painful that transformation could be.
13:20Do you agree with our choices?
13:22What other miraculous movie transformations
13:24should we have put on this list?
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13:39Catch a cab and I gotta go to a drugstore
13:41and get some Benadryl and a KO pick taker.
13:43Excuse me, have a pleasant evening, bye-bye.
13:44See you next time, bye-bye.
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