The action scenes are the only parts worth it...

Rating: 4/10 (11 August 2007)

Undoubtedly, "Transformers" presents some high-action sequences with amazing special effects, but there weren't enough of them to make the movie. The story follows a boy, Sam (Shia), as he discovers his car is a robot, and he's been entwined in a robot war that began thousands of years ago. Along his adventures of trying to control the chaotic, but good, robot team that's protecting him and helping him "save the human race," he's run into the sexy Mikaela (Megan). The two, backed by their robot comrades, look for Sam's great- grandfather's glasses (which were encrypted with a secret message) and the "cube" (the key to earth's survival), all while trying to annihilate the (so to speak) bad robots. The movie poorly developed Mikaela, only leaving her to be a seemingly shallow girl that eventually follows for the dorky boy (Sam) that everyone hated-- however, her script was so weak that it doesn't matter what she does, she was really put in their for her looks. She comes into the movie as a lacking character and the movie ends that way as well. Oh, and of course, the movie had to make her have some sort of "troubled past" for her to add a little depth and "Wow she is more than meets the eye". It was so unnecessary though that it was just an eye-roller. Shia's character, Sam, is better developed and easier to connect with. Though the movie does well in many aspects, the fact that the Transformers are a children's toy does show through in the movie with corny parts that would make 8-year-old boys laugh, not to mention the cheesy little "We protect" speech at the end. The biggest action parts are at the end and the beginning-- look forward to those. However, the camera is s shaky and jerky that sometimes it's difficult to understand what's going on. 4 stars for the action.