Slick, pro-military propaganda and simple storyline

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2007)

Transformers was fine entertainment. Definitely skewed towards a young audience (tweens) thanks to its simplicity.
Big 'wow' factor, especially with the speccy spfx. One jaw-dropping moment, in particular, was a scene late into the movie when a gold-coloured Decepticon (the evil robots) appeared to be roller-blading down the freeway in pursuit of the good guys.
Really impressive how seamlessly the animation blended with the live action.
The part that left a really nasty taste in my mouth was how blatantly pro-war it all was. Military might and efficiency plus zero body count (wait, did someone die in this movie?) as opposed to the grim and harsh reality of countless deaths daily in this current war and pretty well every other war that's ever happened. I even turned to my guy at one stage and said (obviously ironically) "I wanna enlist!" That definitely seemed to be what Bay was going for above all else.
Ugh!