Great Visuals. That's all there is in its favour.

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2007)

Transformers is a terrible film. I mean really, really terrible. Worse than I was expecting, and I was expecting very little. Michael Bay should be encased in concrete and buried deep in the Hoover Dam. It is insulting that a studio executive gave this project the go ahead with the script that ends up in the movie. Absolute proof that this movie exists purely to make money, sell toys and cars. No thought has gone into it WHATSOEVER. This script could literally have been written in 5 minutes. By a child. That was stillborn. Credit must go to Shia Leboeuf and Megan Fox for doing their best to disguise the cliché ridden nerd guy/pretty girl romance thing. John Turturro does all he can to keep a straight face while playing a parody of the equally overused "secret government agency man". Some of the dialogue given to the Autobots is just embarrassingly bad. I have never before shifted uncomfortably in my seat and felt sorry for a CGI character because of the lines he had to say. That brings me onto the transformers themselves- To look at- they are AWESOME. It is a pity that what will surely come to be regarded as a benchmark in movie visual effects is otherwise so bad. The transformation scenes, especially in close up, are staggering and they do deserve to be seen on a big screen. If you haven't seen it yet- here's my advice- take your ipod- turn it up loud and just enjoy the visuals. The script and story really don't do justice to the effects- so there's no point paying attention to them.