Fun from start to finish

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2009)

Big budget switch your brain off action flick, directed with usual over the top extravagance by Michael Bay.
Shia LeBeouf plays Sam, your typical nerdy film teenager who finds out his new car is a transforming robot and gets thrown into a war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, alien robots from another world. Megan Fox is gorgeous as the eye candy whilst John Turturro hams it up wildly as a government agent.
This could have been a train wreck of a movie but in the hands of Exec Producer Steven Spielberg, he ensures that it's a really fun movie. It has a very witty script from Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman (writers of the new Star Trek movie), absolutely eye popping Special FX from ILM and lots of wham bam giant robot fighting action, directed by Bay using his usual flair for putting the money up on the screen.
If there's any fault with the film it's the usual criticism of today's summer blockbusters. It's 15/20 minutes too long and some of the action scenes are an edited mess but let's face it, a film based on a toy line should not be this enjoyable but it is Bring on the sequel 8.5/10