A giant blockbuster clown circus

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2007)

I'm not going to completely degrade this movie with giving out a 1, but it sure doesn't deserve anything more than a 4. I'm not particularly a fan of Michael Bay, as I've seen probably most of his movies, simply because they are unavoidable. Michael Bay once again leads a giant circus to the worldwide cinema's.
I have seen Transformers a lot when I was young and I was hoping for once that Michael would not make complete circus out of a concept. I was hopeful when going to the cinema but after half an hour I was getting annoyed with the dialogue, the overly cheesy jokes and the total lack of depth of the concept.
It instantly made me feel I was in a circus watching clowns dressed up like Transformer character creating slapstick humor. The thing with humor is, it messes up an ambiance completely. On the other hand, there was no ambiance of "feel" of the Transformer movies at all, so the jokes didn't hurt it. I do feel the old concept has been "whored" by Mr. Bay.
The CGI was breathtaking, I have to say that. The action was very, very awesome to see. I felt so sorry for the people that created the action scenes, because the awesomeness it created was completely destroyed afterwards by one of the cheesy jokes. I am really tired of "the usual movie clown screaming and acting as if he's on speed".
A concept ruined. Do not watch this movie if you're a transformer fan. Unless you like a persiflage version of the Transformers.
Thank you Guy Chapman for being so spot on with your review about the movie.