This is NOT a real Transformers movie

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2007)

As the title of the film suggest: "a Michael Bay film, Transformers"
Transformers (2007) is Michael Bay's version of the Transformers of which he described as a "stupid toy movie" before he was educated about the subject matter by Hasbro. The movie therefore reflected Bay's vision of the Transformers which in ways are different from the original.
Apart from that is also the fact that the movie is just a commercial film for the mass market filled with Product Placements.
Even with all the effort and brilliance in creating the live action movie using CGI & special effects (which is entertaining to the mass market), the movie really fell short on capturing what should be the essence of the original Transformer characters.
As a film it did not do strongly on story telling, creating a compelling atmosphere & developing characters. What it did however was to put on a show of explosion, crashes & cheap humor.
Sure the film entertained in terms of giving its audience a cinematic experience with visual & sound (mostly bass) effects but is a good film based just on that alone?
Whatever happened to script writing, screenplay, cinematography, directing, editing & complimenting musical score?
Is this the way movies should be made even if the audience should cheer & applaud them?
As a media of great influence, shouldn't movie makers at least consider what values & messages they are sending out by their creation?
When Optimus Prime & his Autobots made up their mind to save earth and the human race, just what kind of a world are they really saving?
A world of destruction, a world that sees commercial values above all else and a world whose people view a film like Michael Bay's Transformer something of high regard?
Just who are these robots in disguised as the Transformers?