Fantastic Adaptation of Children's Material - Excellent Movie

Rating: 8/10 (4 July 2007)

I'm almost always disappointed by adaptations of things I loved as a child to a big-screen blockbuster (i.e. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, etc.) but Transformers does not disappoint. It's a big, loud, and slightly silly action movie, but it does everything right. Fantastic effects, big explosions, tense action and excellent character development for the Autobots. The budget for this movie must have been absolutely through the roof.
LaBouef did a great job as the incredulous teenager.
Now I just need to keep my fingers crossed for a decent follow up in the form of Transformers 2.
A solid 8 out of 10.