worth your while

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2007)

so before i saw it i heard how amazing it was for all these different people. it was a good amount of people too (including the never wrong IMDb) and nobody said it was bad, nobody said it was OK, nobody even said it was pretty good. all i heard was that it was OMG AWESOME! i had been wanting to see it since i came out so i waited over a week to see it and these comments only fueled that fire....so i went into the movie theater two days ago with very high expectations. i was thinking that it was going to put the matrix and lord of the rings to shame, that it was even going to pass 300. being the idiot that i determined the movie before i even saw it. i had this fantasy in my head that no movie could live up to. and because of that, through no fault of the movie, i was disappointed by the action. and I'm not saying that the action wasn't enough, I'm not saying that this movie didn't give me goosebumps a few times, I'm just say that its not that jaw-dropping action extravaganza that i built it up to be in my head....on the flip side of my disappointment in the action, i was pleasantly surprised by the comedy in this movie. i had no idea that this movie was going to be so damn funny. everyone is talking about how all these other movies have been this year but i think i laughed more at transformers than i did at any other movie this year. i know I'm probably going to have people disagree with me here, but i think this movie if funnier than knocked up or even almighty or any other comedy I'm forgetting....the story was very implausible, but who wasn't expecting that with transformers? the acting and visuals helps u forgive that anyways. this is the kind of movie where u don't ask questions, u just enjoy the amazing things your seeing and hearing....Shia LaBouf comes out of nowhere and comedic genius with his delivery and timing...the robots look as real as they can get...and the actions sequences (although less abundant than i would've like and filmed in a way that made me feel as if i couldn't see anything) were the kind that made u lean forward and shout "WOOOooo" or "DAMN!"....my only problem with this movie was that the Transformers really took a backseat to the humans involved. the only robots that really got significant screen time were Prime and Bumblebee. there seemed to be one too many story lines; Sam's was the only one that really seemed necessary. i would've liked to see more robots instead of Anthony Anderson and that blonde girl he was running around with....they left it wide open for a sequel and i have no problem with that. this movie is all about explosions and jokes and a sequel isn't going to ruin anything....i hope that in the sequel i could get to know the transformers other than Prime and Bumblebee...other than that, rock on ;)