Dissapointmentron

Rating: 2/10 (5 July 2007)

This movie is probably the most incomprehensible piece of trash film I have ever seen.
Its typical Michael Bay fare - an empty but full-of-itself plot interrupted every 10 minutes or so with a half hour's worth of smoke, loud explosions, and metal crashing against one another. (See Pearl Harbor) This one is made particularly bad by Shia Lebouf's spastic, annoying performance. If you've seen anything this kid has done, you've seen it all. Lebouf's acting grab-bag seems to consist of talking fast....and talking too fast.
Lebouf's performance is the keystone of a plot that won't be too appealing to an audience who values logic in an entertaining story. Why a group of super space robots so advanced they can shift their shape to mirror an alien race's technology can have anything hidden from them or need the help of the young boy to find it is a question that Bay hopes the audience won't be concerned with as they sit enamored with his signature bells, whistles, and gunshots.
However, the transformers were an important part of many of our lives as children, and there were certainly many other people leaving the theater who enjoyed it. If you like the transformers (or are one of those nerds who decided you did because you wanted to wear an optimus prime t-shirt you say at Hot Topic, even though you never actually watched the cartoon) you may still enjoy it.
If you respect film and enjoy good movies, rent something and stay home.