An acceptable summer flick

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2011)

transformers an average summer popcorn flick. I must admit I have never seen the show or played with any of the toys so my review is strictly about the film based on its own merits without any comparisons to other Transformer merchandise.
The story is a very basic good guys vs. bad guts with the Autobots as the good guys and the Decepticons as the the bad guys. These guys had a war on their home planet over the control of a mystical cube the Allspark. Well the Allspark made it to Earth and Megatron of the Decepticons found it but he got encased in arctic ice. Well the protagonist Sam Witwicky(Shia LaBeouf) grandfather found the Megatron and on his glasses Megatron engraved the location of the Allspark. Well the Autobots come to earth to get the Allspark and protect Sam while Megatron and Decepticons try to get it.
The good points of the film are the action sequences which come fast and furious, the film editing and the sound effects. The technical aspects of the film are all first rate and it looks like a big budget summer action flick. The bad parts are week dialog between the characters, lack of character development, and I found many of the non principals so cartoonish like they came right out of a kids cartoon.
Grade C+