Pretty girls, not much else

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2007)

This is written from the point of view of someone who was never interested in Transformers, and watched the movie because it had a high rating on IMDb.
If you don't like comic books, you will hate this movie. Sure, there are pretty girls, but they are acting as if robots are humans. The acting in this movie is a huge letdown. It's as if Disney has made one single movie that combines the terrible features of all of their movies, added robots, and released it.
If you enjoy comic books, Transformers type stuff, you may be interested to see how it is depicted in a film once more, but don't get too excited.
If you liked The Matrix, this movie may not be for you, the robots look just like robots, yet the movie asks you to look at them as humans, and this is what bugs me. They have cheesy deep voices, and this film is full of over-used robot humor.
After seeing this film, I almost feel like everyone in the movie was a robot, they all acted as if they had no emotions whatsoever, and no touch with humanity. Even the main character is so see-through that it makes the whole film feel like a joke to me.
Towards the end there are so many inconsistencies that it would take a lot of alcohol not to notice them. Just an example (NOT A SPOILER): A main character states something to the effect of "if those were our planes they wouldn't fly lower than the buildings". 5 minutes later, their planes are flying just a couple hundred feet over the ground in a big city.
It's things like this that could easily be fixed, but absolutely ruin the movie for all of us. It's almost as if the director never actually watched the movie all the way through, or didn't care enough to fix any of the problems.
Sorry Transformers fans, I respect your passion, but this movie was still terrible.