Meh.

Rating: 1/10 (26 August 2007)

As much as I enjoy Michael Bay and other action films, this truly disappointed me.
I work in Showcase Cinemas, and every person who went to see it told me it was 'Best Film Of The Year', '5 STARS!', 'Action Packed and Thrilling'. Whereas i must have sneezed out more interesting substances than this film. It left me bored and clock-watching for the first hour, and when they finally got round to the better bits I was yawning incessantly. The special effects were of a higher quality than most, but they could have been improved marginally. The camera-work was shaky and trembling to the point where I thought the cameraman must have been doing something else with his hands, and at points was so shaky you wouldn't be able to focus. Zooms in and out were overdone and again, shakier than a builders drill. Shia LaBeauf(?) is a good actor, and I have enjoyed his previous work/am looking forward to the future films, but the script writing was slow, predictable and wooden. His female co-star was blatantly hired for something OTHER than acting, as she was blank and emotionless throughout the film. Rating this film 3 out of ten is a good rating, as I have seen worse films, but I have seen thousands more that are much better.
I have had such abuse for my opinion from people, some of which haven't even SEEN the dire film yet. And my point was proved when I ran into one of them on my way to see Evan Almightly and they agreed wholeheartedly it is a atrocious film. It is grainy and shaky, with a severe disregard to the previous cartoons and the film to such an extent that it almost appeared to be MOCKING the earlier TF work and going NER NER NEE NER NER LOOK HOW S**T WE MADE YOU. It was almost satirical and ironic in that it was just so AWFUL. I truly can't see how anyone could enjoy this.
Oh, and the lubricating innuendos and the masturbation scenes? one three-year-old had a minor giggle. That was it. I mean, come on. This isn't Euro Trip, so stop trying to be funny, because you are failing.