The start of the Transformers franchise

Rating: 9/10 (9 July 2014)

In 2007, there was a movie that premiered on July 3rd, 2007 in theaters. This movie was Transformers. It was the first live-action film made since the animated series in the 80's. The director is Michael Bay, who previously worked on films such as Bad Boys.
The story is the Autobots and Decepticons are searching for an artifact called the Allspark that will save their planet. The Autobots wish to restore their world Cybertron while the Decepticons wish to destroy Earth. Humans are left in the middle of this.
Bay had a view in mind for this first film, and it was big explosions, eye candy and superb CGI for the Transformers.
The characters introduced in this first one are Shia Labeouf, well known for that kids TV show Even Stevens and Holes. The eye candy is the gorgeous Megan Fox, who I had not heard much of until this movie. Josh Duhamel plays the commander of a group of survivors after a base attack. Another cool thing is Peter Cullen, who was in the animated series voicing Optimus Prime, reprises his role again as Prime.
The acting is very good and the background characters like Shia's parents create a sense of humor that will have people laughing every time they appear on screen.
What makes this movie great is the Transformers themselves. Bay focused a lot of his time to them and did an amazing job with their transforming.
Transformers is an amazing start to the franchise and does follow up to several sequels which I will do reviews for as well. Definitely everyone should give this a chance especially if you were a fan of the animated series like me. Check it out.