Only a child could overlook the cheese!!

Rating: 2/10 (30 July 2007)

Hollywood has successfully pumped out another assembly line, deus ex machina laden, cheese-fest. The movie flowed from one cheesy scene to another, with injections of special effects overkill to keep the viewer startled long enough that they wouldn't regurgitate their concession stand snacks all over the theater floor.
How many times can you do geeky boy wants gorgeous girl, gets cool car and wins girl, while also saving the world? Why have this huge cast who do absolutely nothing? Shia LaBeouf, Anthony Anderson, John Turturro, etc had their acting talents wasted, and reminded me of another bad Gen X flashback film, "Super Mario Bros." The Gen X'ers need to come to terms with their age and stop being the high school quarterback living out his glory days on film. The Transformers were a poor knock-off of Japanese Anime and if you were going to do any robo/cartoon based movie, at least have the sense to go to the source - Robotech.