Now that was better than I thought it should have been

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2007)

After seeing this movie I felt I had to share my opinions. I have read all the " OH MY GOD this is the best thing since sliced bread!!!!" reviews as well as the " Michael Bay should be hung from the tallest tree possible for what he has done to the Transformers!!" ones.
While I'm not quite in the gushing pile, I am very far from the "it sucks" bunch.
Right from the get go this movie broke into an action sequence that is just utterly amazing and well choreographed. Michael Bay does action very well and this movie played to his strengths.
As a junkie of the old 80's cartoon and being something of a Transformers geek (I am married and do have kids) I held them in an icon stature and initially felt that the designs of the robots should have followed the toy line and cartoon closer. BOY WAS I WRONG.... The character designs were excellent and worked well for the movie and were totally believable.
This movie delivered on so many levels for me. From the action sequences to the little touches of comedy such as Iron Hide commenting on wanting to shoot Sam's parents because they were annoying. I think the nay sayers are saying so because this movie didn't fit in with their narrow closed minded expectations of what should have been.
My only true complaint was some of the overtly sexual innuendo and unneeded references to male self gratification which made for some very delicate explanations to my seven year old.
Overall, this is an excellent summer movie and well worth seeing during the summer of sequels.