So disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (6 July 2007)

I have always been a huge Transformers fan. I WANTED to enjoy this movie yet I can honestly say I can't remember ever being so disappointed in a film. I think I started to hate it when Bumblebee urinated on an FBI agent. Somewhere around there.
*SPOILERS* First of all, to even say that this movie is about the Transformers is a bit misleading. In reality, it's about Shia LeBouf's character with appearances by the Transformers. When I go see a movie about the Transformers, I want to see more than one scene containing a conversation between those characters.
In fact, the Transformers were so poorly characterized, that when Megatron and Optimus Prime actually do fight, I don't even give a crap, because I feel like I barely know them. Megatron has about five lines and he doesn't even show up until literally 2 hours into the film. And I sure don't want to sit through a lame-ass love story when there is plenty of Autobot and Decepticon action to be watching.
The entire film is completely unfocused. It's completely unclear what the Decepticons are doing on Earth and whether or not that Megatron is even the leader. And even though each Decepticon introduces themselves, afterwards it's almost impossible to tell them apart.
Another thing that really bugged me was the films annoying obsession with this sitcom-type humor. Don't get me wrong, I love some comedy in my action movies, but the silly lowbrow comedy just didn't go with the attempt to set the action in a real-world setting. There were genuinely funny parts, of course, but I was so annoyed with the potty humor junk that it was hard to enjoy them.
Obviously there are many people who have posted positive reviews of this film and they're entitled to their opinion. I guess they just have an ability to enjoy senseless overly long movies with no substance that I don't.