This movie should suck... but it doesn't.

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2007)

I watched transformers in the early eighties. I loved the series as a kid, so naturally I feared that the movie would belittle the epic battle that is going on between the two opposing forces. Fortunately this isn't so.
This movie is meant to be entertainment and nothing else. The writers didn't try to embrace any deeper philosophical standpoints which would have been nearly impossible with so little screen time available. Thumbs up!
The visual effects are NICE and very dynamic and the sound is awesome - when Barricade bellows "ARE YOU LADIESMAN217?" the whole theater trembled. (Yes, the theater, not the people inside the theater, it wasn't a metonym).
"What about the plot?" - you say. Well... It's a war-movie: "Search and destroy".
I have a 7 year old kid who has watched the G1 series on DVD and has collected Transformers action figures since the age of 3. I am VERY pleased that his introduction to non-animated Transformers is through this movie. The very thought takes me back to when my dad took me to see Return of the Jedi in 1983.
A new shiny version of a known universe has just popped into existence.