Good but not that great

Rating: 6/10 (27 June 2007)

For newcomers, the movie may be entertaining, but for die hard fans, you will be disappointed. Not enough time spent on the transformers themselves. Most of the movie is about Spike/Sam. The plot moves very quickly and without my segway. One minute Scorponok (who is not a headmaster!) is attacking the US base in Qatar, next minute Sam is buying Bumblebee, next minute Sam witnesses Bumblebee transforming and messaging the other Autobats in space with a batman like Autobot symbol.
Once Optimus Prime and the other Autobots arrive in protoform mode, they assume earth shapes and look for Sam's great grandfather's glasses documenting the location of the Allspark. Sector 7 realizes that Spike has information about the transformers and tracks them down -- Optimus busts them up for a second, but Sector 7 captures Bumblebee and the entire team.
At Hoover Dam, Sam blackmails Sector 7 into releasing him, Megan Fox, and the whole team in exchange for explaining the story of the transformers. Megatron comes to life, starts busting up the place, about 3 minutes of very hard to see fighting between Megatron and Optimus Prime.
Not going into too much detail, the ending very much leaves open the possibility of a part 2.
In general, the plot moved way too fast, and revolved too heavily on Sam vs. revolving around the Transformers. Most of the transformers don't even come out until the last 20-30 mins of the movie. Part 2 needs to have a lot more emphasis on the robots themselves.