Just another terrible comic-book movie with big budget

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2007)

Another terrible movie about kids toys that big producers are trying to make "adult" and "serious" and fail miserably. The whole transforming cgi is such a lame-ass - if one would design something similar, it would try to make the "transformation" as fast as possible with optimal amount of parts moving, but the damn transformation there is stretched out to look "cool" with the exact opposite effect, of course. And then there's the leader Optimus (seriously, what is this - is this name thought up by 9-year olds?) who tries to sound "serious" and "leaderly", but makes you want to roll eyes and find the mute-button. The writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and John Rogers have tried to make the story a bit less childish, but it still isn't quite ready. They have found some extremely stupid dialogue to make things either "dramatic" (what was that about the mystical relationship between man and car, car chooses it's driver, come on, I'm going to puke) or "comic" (my mom is very sensitive, don't ruin the lawn..), but make me wonder, how this kind of silliness has actually gone unnoticed. Basically we have a terrible screenplay with childish story, spiced with nice cgi and model-like girls, all that made possible by huge financing and good marketing. Amazing how this kind of empty and stupid movie can be marketed so well that it actually persuades people to go and watch it in the theater. It was a complete waste of my time, I'm only happy I didn't have to pay to watch that crap.