"Let's go hide in the city!" What were they thinking?

Rating: 2/10 (22 March 2008)

How massively irresponsible was it for them to go to the city with these evil destroyer robots on their tail? I actually liked a few parts of this movie; the quirky bits with Bumblebee were cute. The romance was slightly amusing. I liked the sci-fi feel with the dam and the All-spark, or whatever it was. But as soon as they said, "Let's go to the city," I just groaned, because it was just so ludicrous. If you have a bunch of giant robots on your side and a bunch more who are fighting them, you don't go in the city! You go out in the middle of nowhere to have it out where civilians won't get hurt. It was such a painfully obvious excuse to have a cool battle in the middle of tall buildings with lots of special effects and explosions, which is fun to watch but it definitely gets old after a while. By the third car smashing I just wanted to leave the theater because it was all such needless, reckless violence, that instead of thrilling, I just found it annoying. I guess they had to put in so many explosions to distract people from the massive plot hole.