Terrible Commercial Garbage

Rating: 2/10 (3 February 2009)

What Michael Bay lacks is the fact that film is about artistic merit, not how many explosions or stunts you have. Bay is never clever with the camera for this badly made flick, he simply relies on patheticly glamourising a classic retro cartoon series.
It's hard to understand what anyone sees in this tedious drag, with Shia bumbling constantly in his repeated 'Even Stevens' act, Megan Fox performing as good as a house brick and the cult Transformer characters given urban attitudes, its easy to see that this is just another Hollywood mess.
There's nothing to highlight in this science-fiction action epic, there are some funny moments and the great Peter Cullen returns to voice Optimus Prime (Cullen's voice-over gives the film it's extra star).
With more product placement than creative imagery to boast, Bay's Transformers is awful and a key movie to highlight when it comes to explaining why business shouldn't come before art in film. It actually made me feel dizzy watching it, if your going to make an animated series into a film, do it properly because the majority of these characters do not appear in the Japnese cartoons and its all to appeal towards the numb minded teenagers.
Badly written, boring and nothing special.