Save your money, wait for the DVD

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2007)

I was very excited to see a live action movie about Transformers. However I was disappointed with the results. It seems like the movie about robots wasn't really centered around the robots. While this might have been to give the movie a more human touch, it ruined it for me. Again it's a movie about robots and their interactions with humans not the other way around.
The good: *The robots were cool looking (hey, this is a movie about robots) *some of the human robot interactions were masterful
The bad: *The action sequences were many times too close up, it was hard to tell who was fighting who, and when you could tell who was fighting who it was hard to tell what was going on. * This movie should have been 40 minutes shorter, much of the plot was aimed at bringing inconsequential characters more screen time and did not move the story along. *the cheese factor: it seems like they couldn't decide if they wanted this movie to be serious or cheesy, so they said "oh let's go for a little of both" (e.g. the transformer introductions, or the whole "bedroom" scene) *The character build-up is so poor that you don't care what happens to most of them (the people not the transformers)