Their War. Shia LaBeouf's Movie.

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2007)

By my estimation, 40% of the humor in Transformers is comprised of racial stereotypes, flatulence, pee jokes, disrespect to with the intent to hurt women, drug use, and masturbation jokes. Real classy. Since the screenwriters of Transformers are the same bigots hired to script the new Star Trek, is anyone else as horrified as me? The "future" doesn't look good. I'm sure we'll hear these pinheads on the DVD commentary regaling us with comparisons to ancient mythology and the like, flouting whatever frivolous degrees led them into their lucrative film careers... writing chihuahua gags. That's right, if you thought small animal gags were held in reserve for Ben Stiller comedies, you were wrong. They can also enhance major science fiction epics. Because traditionally, cult fan bases love when their favorite universes are seasoned with fart and pee pee jokes, because it gives them a sense of pride. Pride that a major studio didn't have enough confidence in a 23 year-old property with a built-in worldwide audience guaranteed to shatter box office records that they made a movie not for us thirtysomethings who made Transformers a commodity in the first place, but moreso for eight year-olds. That's gratitude for you.
I thought Shia LaBeouf was supposed to be this wunderkind up-and-coming. Maybe that's apparent in Disturbia, which I missed, because in Transformers he's a total ham.