Ups and downs... but mostly ups (and downs)

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2007)

All in all, Transformers is a really really good movie (stopping short of saying great). The action was really good and the CG was incredible. The reason I gave it a 7 was for two reasons. I really didn't like Sam Whitwicky in this movie. I felt like he was a spoiled little brat of a kid, whose "witty" dialog was quite frankly marginally written at best. Secondly, I felt like the writers tried a little too hard with the "humor" aspect. The whole "finding the glasses" scene took WAY too long, and was a little far fetched considering every step the Autobots make creates a loud boom sound. Sure it may not have been as "funny" but they should've stayed in their alternate mode to make it slightly more feasible that the parents (let alone the rest of the neighborhood) wouldn't have noticed giant robots outside their house.
Again, though, a lot of fun, good action and a great movie that I can watch again and again. Hopefully next time I won't have to watch it with the stupid 5 year old twins sitting in front of me beating each other up and acting like stupid 5 year olds. WATCH THE MOVIE KIDS!