Pretty Good

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2013)

In 2007, Michael Bay brought to the silver screen a favorite cartoon series of mine from when I was a kid in a live action version of the Transformers. Many people have found fault in this movie and the two subsequent movies. I like these movies in their entirety.
The first movie introduces the audience to the different characters. Who, men mostly, wouldn't have wanted to meet Bumblebee, Optimus Prime or even Megatron; I'm sure there are a few women out there that can say they would. We also meet Sam Witwiky (Shia LeBeouf), Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox), Captain William Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and Agent Simmons (JohnTurturro).
It is hard to think of these movies as serious or action movies when there are so many jokes, comic relief scenes, and prat-falls. Shia LeBeouf is very good at doing prat-falls and having a that kind of background help him be able to play his character very well. However, I think that as you move from one movie to the next you start seeing Sam Witwiky become more mature.
My first favorite scene is when Sam finds out that his car is in actuality a robot that can transform into a Camaro. At one point Sam tries to escape his car because he doesn't understand that the car is a friendly robot, not yet anyway. Sam grabs his mom's bike and tries to outrun his car. At one point he doesn't see a crack in the sidewalk; he ends up flipping over the handlebars right in front of Mikaela, who he has a crush on. It is only when the Camaro saves Sam and Mikaela from another robot that can change into a police car that they begin to trust him. Later Sam finds out that the cars name is Bumblebee.
Another favorite scene is the awkward scene when Sam is looking for his Great-Grandfather's glasses. The other Autobots are anxious to get the glasses and they end up taking out the electricity to the entire neighborhood. Sam's parents come up to his room because they wanted to make sure he is OK. Sam's mom, Judy Witwicky (Julie White) asks him if the reason he had locked the door was because he was masturbating. It is after this conversation that Mikaela reveals herself hoping the conversation would stop being embarrassing... it doesn't.
I like this movie because it brings to "life" a favorite cartoon from my childhood. I try very hard to make up my own mind about movies and other entertainment without reading reviews of others. I have read articles describing what some reviewer or another had to say about this movie but I take it with a grain of salt. I like what I like. I try not to write a bad review if I can help it.
That said, I give this movie a 9 out of 10 stars. I don't know what could have made it better to get that last star.