Truly, utterly abysmal

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 2007)

I honestly can't think of a worse film that I've seen in some time.
The plot (as was) was execrable, the dialogue astoundingly bad.
The film hit self-parody before it got going (teen romantic comedy!) and didn't improve from there. I waited it out in the hope the expected climactic fight scenes might compensate, but then they were too fast and confused to make any sense - in many places it was impossible to distinguish the combatants. I'm not expecting realism in a film about transforming robots based on kids' toys, but that's not an excuse to get even the simplest basics wrong.
I didn't expect much after early reviews, but I was hoping to at least see a passable check-brain-at-door action movie. *sigh* I'll know better than to see another Michael Bay movie in future.