Transformers take on the universe, with Shia LaBouf helping out.

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2007)

First I want to state one thing I like a lot about how this movie treats the subject. At times there are explosions, planes shot down, guns shooting, so you know that people die. But it never is glorified, you don't actually see anyone depicted as getting killed, which is a welcome change from so many movies that give you slow motion, close-up shots of people getting killed.
Second, I don't know anything about the "transformer" toys or the transformer comics if there is such a thing. So I was only able to appreciate this movie on the 2 hours I spent with the subject.
I think it is a cool movie. We have bad alien Transformers, and we have good alien Transformers. The goodness of the Universe is at stake, but the movie never takes its message too seriously. There are lots of laughs.
Shia LaBeouf is a natural, as Sam Witwicky. Somehow his old grandfather made a discovery and somehow a code got etched on his old spectacles that Sam is trying to sell on Ebay. So the good and the bad Transformers compete to see who will get the code.
Very cute Megan Fox, looking like a young Jennifer Connelly, is Mikaela Banes, a hot chick who never notices knerds like Sam, until they are forced into a situation together. Jon Voight is Defense Secretary John Keller. John Turturro provides lots of comic relief as Agent Simmons.
Overall an enjoyable movie, with almost non-stop action the final 45 minutes. See it, to find out if the Universe will be saved.