Michael Bay you've done it again!

Rating: 3/10 (27 January 2008)

This film is based on a series of cartoons that were released 20 years ago. Therefore this was a risky thing for Bay to take on due to all the old fans of it that he could disappoint.
Although the transformers cartoon series wasn't in my time, i still watched a few of my brothers old videos of it and began to enjoy it. Due to this fact i can safely say that this film was a significant disappointment.
The film focuses too much onto the lives on the humans rather then the robots. The characters are poorly developed and are in turn, are clichéd and crude. Shia labeouf's character (sam) is a typical American teenager who happens to be chucked into the story. Sam is alongside another flop of a character played by Megan Fox. She plays a blunt and pointless and character who is only there for eye candy (although i don't mind). Much like other Bay films, the army characters are big tough guys who will kill and shoot everything in sight. There's even a cheesy sub-plot for one of the soldiers of him wanting to go home and hug is new-born child. The character's have been hand-picked from pearl harbour and American pie and chucked into a cage with some big machines. This doesn't work.
As for the story, well the lack of story. the story is about a war between the autobots and the decepticons about capturing a cube which holds the ultimate power. The whole of mankind is at stake. the story is very poor and is very unfaithful to the cartoon.
Michael Bay is the king of americanising films and this is what hes done to the transformers series. Hes threw in some slow motion, unfunny humour and boy loves girl into one film thats meant to be a sci-fi thriller.
This is not a sci-fi thriller like its supposed to be, its a teen flick with some robots in it.
I've said a lot of bad about the film but i give it 3/10, why? Well i thought that the visuals and cinematography were at times breathtaking and intense. The fight scenes were fantastic and they were in my opinion the only good scenes of the film.
While this film is watchable, the flurry of cliché's and the extremely unoriginal storyline and characterisation were simply too much for me to really enjoy this film.
Bay brought a fantastic idea to mediocrity.
We're bombarded with stylish visuals but there's a serious lack of originality
3/10