One word - LAME

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2007)

I went into watching this with the highest of expectations. That might have been my problem. Admittedly, I didn't watch the show as a child, I just played with the toys. That said, I think that if I HAD watched the show, I STILL would have hated this movie. There were so many things about it that bothered me: 1. There were scenes at the beginning that were good and funny but they were too long (when they are looking for the glasses, when they were at the car dealership and got Bumblebee) so by the end I was bored. Editing is a wonderful thing. 2. Speaking of editing, Michael Bay has a way of editing things that just makes you wanna throw things at his head if you ever meet him. There were parts when a transformer was transforming and there were things going on around him that were important, but the camera was too close to the transformer so you couldn't see what was happening around him. Michael did the same thing in Armagedden. Thousands of close-up shots of things transforming, being blown up, getting smashed, all back to back so the audience doesn't know what is transforming, being blown up, or getting smashed. 3. The casting was a joke. I liked Shia, don't get me wrong, but everyone else could have been re-casted and it probably would have made a huge difference. 4. The music felt like it was out of place. This is a movie ultimately about cartoon characters so why recycle music from Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, which was ultimately about the triumph of the American Spirit? Why recycle music from any movie? 5. There were more but I'll end with this one because it's my biggest pet-peeve. I am buying the fact that there are giant CGI robots fighting each other. I understand it because the movie is called Transformers, so it's about transformers. For me to believe something that isn't real, like robots from another planet came to this planet for some reason, everything else about this movie has to be believable. So when the only person on earth who can figure out what that code was that the little transformer was using, is a guy who lives with his mom and they figure it out on his Mac, I have one word...Stupid! If at the end there is an epic battle where there are these huge robots fighting on a street, with buildings on both sides, they are throwing cars, stepping everywhere and shooting things, and all these people are just standing around and watching it...Stupid...beyond stupid...beyond-my-comprehension stupid!
If you liked this movie, you probably liked The Fast and the Furious and Meet the Folkers. You probably like Nickleback and Hinder. You probably don't like going to art museums or reading novels. If you fit those descriptions, get some culture will you? For the sake of Humankind? Please?