worst movie of the year

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2007)

If you are looking for a movie that has a story or has any meaning -- don't bother with transformers.
I have never been disappointed by a movie as much as transformers even though I was a big fan of the comic since childhood and has been looking forward to this blockbuster, after watching the spectacular trailer.
Transformers the movie feels like it was written by a 14-year old with the corniest, irrelevant, juvenile and unfunny lines ever spoken on screen. the plot is not great but as blockbusters go, at least it has one, a very unoriginal one. It is racist as black comedians play to the stereotype and so pro-industrial military complex!!! BUT the biggest problem I have with this movie is that it did not make you feel anything. It was just flat throughout and I was BORED. It was not scary (we are talking big live alien robots here!), it was NOT funny (jokes were stale!), there was no suspense (we know who won!) Optimus prime, bumble bee were NOT given much of a personality for you to care enough for. They tried to make Shia Le bouf character the one to root for but c'mon -- this is transformers the movie. And shia, to his credit as a good actor, tries not to appear shallow but does his best peter parker impressions. He is not spiderman unfortunately.
I walked out of the show feeling truly cheated -- how can they spend millions on special effects and hardly any effort on story.
If there is ONE thing positive to say -- it is the special effects are spectacular -- they make the robots come alive and you get enough shots of every robot you want.
My feeling though is that -- with such good special effects, certainly one of the best I have seen on screen -- they leave nothing to the imagination and I feel robs away reason why we go to movies in the first place.
I am staying away from BLOCKBUSTERS from now on.