save your money i beg you

Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2007)

Major disappointment, if Bay is the king of crass crap (example: bumblebee peeing on turturro's character) this would be his crown jewel of a summer suck-fest. I grew up watching the transformers and lived through the last attempt at making a transformer movie (alas most of my toy collection did not), but my psyche could barely push through 2 1/2 hours of mountain dew machines transforming, non-stop overacting, frivolous humor, and just about the worst film editing I have ever experienced. There is no rescuing a movie that loses track of one whole transformer (I leave you to figure out who's missing). The transformations are cool for about a second and that's about all you will see of the robots because most of the film is wasted on some terrible acting with characters that did very little to advance the story. I could barely get my eyes to focus on one of the autobots (which looked amazing) before a camera would shake or a cut scene to a fat kid eating a plate of donuts. All out summer blockbuster it was not, shameless product placement for American cars and the U.S. Army it was. P.S. kids and adults alike its time to throw one more toy in the back of the closet by the end of this one. Spielberg and Bay should have known better after the last movie. Seriously what does it say about your film when you kill the only black transformer? And where did that Australian accent come from...lets pray that actress never works in Hollywood again, ugghhh....