Looks incredible and has it's moments

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2011)

I am not sure how deep exactly a director is involved in the technical production of a movie of this scope, but whether it's him, whether it's the people working with him, someone on Bay's sets knows how to assure production quality. I usually do not give too much credit for how a movie generally looks and is made, as stuff for this can be learned and bought. But in this special case production value is so incredibly high that it emerges from its original place and becomes a separate art form. One might take stuff like this for granted, but just freeze the movie for a moment and try to sum up how many people have been working for countless hour on that frame to make it look like it does now, meaning not just the action parts but even the most simple scenes. Fortunately, all this reaches it's climax when it comes to the robots as the CGI applied here is just staggering. I recommend the biggest screen available to you, as the level of detail is mind blowing and has to be presented in the highest resolution possible for you to be able to get just a part of what is happening all together. Also, this provides the movie with a pretty high re-watch value, the scenes featuring the Transformers can be rewinded several times to discover new things happening on the screen every time.
Now while the rest is pretty forgettable I must admit, it kind of works for most of the time. Shia LeBoef might not be academy material, but the way he seems to be on drugs for the majority of the movie is kind of entertaining. Ms.Fox doesn't need to do anything for me, I'd give her any award she likes. The Bay-specific humor deliberately smashed in to make this family friendly borders at slapstick at times but I admit actually having fun with it now and then. Also it's full of plot holes and banal script writing mistakes but then again it has Megan Fox's ass.
Now Undoubtedly this is a Michael Bay vehicle and all this by itself could still be unwatchable, but the thing is, there are some unexpectedly good scenes and moments. I wouldn't have dared to hope for anything as dark and thrilling as the first scene with the decepticon attacking the military base, which was a genuine cinema moment for me, something I thought would have been extinguished by know. And though the movie never goes there again, with a few other moments and the transformation effects and Megan Fox's legs I am willing to forgive a lot of crap here. Even some of the stupid things that are severely effecting the movies quality which could have been easily avoided.
So the movie is called Transformers and this is exactly what you get and technically produced in the most awesome way imaginable. The rest, while banal at times is actually entertaining, so you know... whatever... for what it is: 9/10