Impressive special effects (and nothing more)

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2007)

Sam Witwicki is the poor boy of his school, he dreams in the prettiest and he knows that he never will be able to be with her. when he buys his first car (an ancient Camaro) his life changes. The Camaro results to be a Transformer. An ancient civilization devastated by war between the Autobots (that defend the liberty) and the Decepticons (that defend that the stronger must command). They search a legendary artifact: the Cube, that will unbalance the war to one side. Well first of all it is compulsory to congratulate the fantastic special effects that are on the movie. They not seem CG at any moment and sometimes it is like the robots are also actors. The landing of Starscream or the skating of Barricade are good examples. All the action scenes and all the moments when the robots fight are just impressive. It is clear that Michael Bay knows how to do this things. The main problem is the fact that the movie has nothing more than that, the story is childish and it has some little holes with the size of an Death Star. Many things happen without any reason, the good ones solve many problems just because they are the good ones, there are lots of stupid jokes in order to make people laugh (only the robots hiding in the garden is good). Thinking about the fan side, the fact that Bumblebee is know a Camaro, well is kind of heretic, but once you accept this, it is good, the movie is like the comic totally, it is as it should be if the comic was a movie. Probably with a more worked plot the movie would have been a good one, but, well it's a blockbuster, then, there's no will of making it good, just spectacular (And it really is).