Waiting for 25 Years

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2007)

To this day, I remember the first Transformer my parents ever bought me. As a kid, I was a huge Transformers fan, and although I might be called a Transformers fanatic, let's not get that confused with "fanboy." It's like this: The people who give this movie a "1" rating are the same type of people who were mad that the X-Men didn't go into space and team up with aliens to fight Dark Phoenix - since, in 2007, that would have been dumb (granted, the movie didn't turn out much better than that, but still).
As a movie, certain things have to be altered regarding the Transformers in order for it to work. Some people wanted a campy revisit of the 1980s, complete with Stan Bush and Weird Al songs. Well guess what, most people would have laughed at such a film and it would have been an embarrassment to anyone who went to see it, aside from that select few.
Instead, here's what you get: Big robots who can turn into vehicles and such - they're aliens and they fight each other. That IS Transformers. Period.
Don't listen to the whiners and nay-sayers, they probably downloaded a crappy quality version of the movie with a bittorrent client anyhow, instead of paying to see it, just before attempting to perform a movie critique in their traditional pseudo-intellectual style.
Shia really shines in this film and even Fox's semi-competent acting doesn't really hold it back. The Transformers themselves look excellent - a wonderful vision of what a live-action Transformers movie SHOULD be.
It's not perfect, but it sure is fun.