Surprise! It's an OK-movie

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2007)

When I went to see Transformers I was expecting the worst.
Another film based on a cartoon series! And it was for the kids, so the Transformers have been all good, and the evil Decepticons were simply evil. And Michael Bay as a director, most of his movies are pretty bad to my mind (Armageddon, Pear Harbor, Bad Boys, The Island). Perfect ingredients for another cinema-disaster.
But I liked the Transformer-cartoons, so I had to watch.
What a surprise. The main theme is not really about the robots, but about a teenager and his (of course) problems with first love. This theme is told with a lot of humor and irony, making it bearable and in fact entertaining.
The robots add to the fun and deliver the action, otherwise no one would watch the film. Very good effects and a nicely dry tone of storytelling make this good fun too.
So it is not a great movie. But it is entertaining and worth the money. If, and only if you like brainless teenage-sci fi-a lot of things getting blown up-movies.