It's dumb, but it's dumb fun. And the first time around, that is what it is. Nothing more than average.

Rating: 5/10 (1 May 2012)

Transformers is a film that attempts being a cinematic epic through only the depth-less method of huge explosions on a large-scale for it's special effects to play out. And when a big blockbuster action film that is bound to spawn sequels like this one is introduced for the first time in it's inevitable series, it does always result in a brainless experience only intended to entertain the simplest visual pleasures for the simplest of minds. Particularly teenage boys who are all about crude humor and hot women contrasting with dazzling CGI. But the first installment commonly comes off as decent, passable, and tolerably okay because it hasn't gotten the chance to become old, predictable, and overused in its sequels yet. Transformers is a movie you need to take at face value, because there is nothing beyond the surface. It's decent because while it is obviously nothing good, it's still the simplest of entertainment with no thought required, where it's acceptable to turn off your brain just for some explosions and special effects. However, by being this kind of movie, Transformers does inevitably set itself up for terrible sequels in which this method is not a dumb pleasure anymore, but a boring, formulaic, and weaker than the first because of the same worn down movie.