This was sort of a let-down.

Rating: 3/10 (8 July 2007)

Let me first start by saying that I know absolutely nothing about Transformers, which may be part of the reason why I gave this such a low ranking. I have no in-depth analysis of this movie, because I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much attention to it.
This movie was amusingly funny, though not always in a good way. Some parts were actually funny, and many others were the kind of cheesy hero lines that sounded like they came straight out of an episode of Power Rangers ("Bumblebee was a brave soldier. His death will have been in vain if we cannot destroy the Allspark and stop Megatron"). It probably would have helped if I knew what to expect. The way everyone was talking about the movie, I thought I was about to see something really cool. But while the graphics were very good, the rest of the movie just didn't live up to expectations at all. There is a plot, which was good, but I found it to be extremely shallow, not pieced together or explained very well. And very long. With 2 hours 35 minutes runtime, my attention span was long gone by the time Optimus Prime showed up.
This movie was okay for a one-time thing, but I don't plan on ever seeing it again. My advice would be to wait until it comes out on disc and rent it rather than spend $10+ to see it at a movie theatre.