not bad, but not good either

Rating: 6/10 (28 September 2007)

First things first, as even the title state, the movie is called Transformers, so by default the story is shallow. Now shallow is not that bad if its written good, but it is not the case. There are to many sidelines that are just thrown in the story and linked together without any apparent reason ( the blonde analyst chick with the Aussie accent and the black hacker would have been so much greater if they were just cut out of this movie, and there was just to much about parents - children relationship at the beginning, I mean masturbation a.k.a. happy hour? stepping on the grass, trash cans? come on......)
Now, when you see Michael Bay as director on a movie poster, you pretty much know what to expect, and that is action at its finest. Given the fact that we have 2 giant robot factions fighting each other kind of hand to hand, Bay doesn't disappoints, and delivers some fine shot action. Basically, the robots are great and they fight accordingly.
The actors are appropriate for this movie. Jon Voight brings some pedigree to the movie, but it shows that this role was accept to pay the rent rather than to claim critics. Shia LaBeouf ain't bad, but it could have been Justin Long in his place or any other young actor with a highscool kid face, it really doesn't matter. Megan Fox is a fox, plane and simple, she is hot. Besides the robots she is the only edge that this move has got. All the other actors are just annoying and mostly unnecessarily present, especially Anthony Anderson. No matter in what I see him, he is always an annoying loudmouth. Attitude and verbal diarrhea with a high volume. Fire him.
In a nutshell, good action, great robots, one FINE girl. Who needs story?