Very Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (4 July 2007)

About 1 year ago, when I saw a teaser of Transformers, my first instinct was that this movie was going to be lackluster at best. I had that same mindset until a couple of weeks ago when I saw an amazing trailer in the theater for the movie. This trailer was so great, it swayed my whole mindset and I actually became very eager to watch this movie. Fast forward to last night. From the opening of the movie, the disappointment began. The plot is very disappointing. Even the all-star cast could not improve this movie. The CGI was definitely groundbreaking and amazing for the most part. However, it was over the top at times especially during fight scenes between Transformers. There was so much CGI, i couldn't tell which Transformer was which and what they were doing. There were an excessive amount of attempts at slapstick humor and comic relief which inevitably made this movie overall Corny. Micheal Bay is definitely a great director in the action genre, but it is clear that in this movie, he placed too much emphasis on the CGI and paid little attention and provided lackluster effort in the area of Plot. The considerable amount of explosions, crashes and action sequences fail to distract the moviegoer from the fact that the movie was extremely disappointing.