Simply Flippin' Awesome!!

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2007)

So I went to the premiere of The Transformers last night, turned out my theater was the first in North America to see the film! The reel actually showed up in a combination lock for God sakes! Now I went into this film a fan of the Transformers, having watched the G1 and Beast Wars series' growing up, so I like the many in the theater with me sporting Autobot/Decepticon attire were gonna be a hard crowd to win over. Well lets just say it was the first time I have ever attended a movie where the audience actually applauded at the end.
Now granted the story was a total tear down from the original series, but I felt it still was respectable to the franchise making the Allspark the cornerstone of the plot. There were great one-liners and comedic moments as well as little digs at itself such as when Shia's character accidentally mentions the "More Than Meets The Eye" slogan as he nervously talked to Meghan Fox's character and then says how stupid it was. There were even little lines made by Optimus and Megatron that paid homage to the original G1 series.
As for the CGI, it has to be the best I have ever seen in a film thus far, making the interaction between the humans and Transformers totally seamless, and providing the platform for some of the greatest fight scenes in cinema history.
Thank you Michael Bay! A definite 10/10!!