They fooled me again with the trailer.

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2007)

Ah, so clever they are at throwing all the best bits of the film into one trailer.
I was close to giving it a 2 . .but no, I'm sorry, they really don't deserve it :) For the first ten to twenty minutes of this film I had relatively good vibes. But then something happened, and quite rightly as another user has stated, it starts a down hill spiral.
It's quite obvious why this one was released for independence day. It has all the elements. .ludicrous plot, abominable script, lots of things blowing up with sparks and fireworks. Those, and the usual actors thrown in to do nothing more than show a comedic face while performing some antic in the film purely to raise the laughter bar.
I know that this was an adaptation, I know that it was not meant to be taken seriously; unfortunately the film makers are asking me to deal with two different kinds of movie here. The first, a semi serious military campaign going badly wrong with Robot invasion. The second, little Johnny and potential love interest counterpart have to save the world from evil robot dominance; they do this after the robots suss out who they are courtesy of ebay and with a succession of ridiculous and badly staged situational hazards.
I'm sorry, but no amount of special effects or large robots rolling around in the air and into each other can save something that was conceived on Stifflers homework paper.
I lost respect for this film the moment it turned into something that pubescent teens would find wildly entertaining.
"Bros not Ho's man!" Titters the youth three rows down the isle in the auditorium.
The product placement was ingenious I have to say, the pepto(a)bysmol on the table after the black guy has finished his plate of ten to fifteen donuts, I'm so glad they don't stereo type.
I didn't intend to rip this film apart for all it's cute moments of Robotic wisdom, but well, I guess like Modern day Hollywood, I just got carried away.