I don't know what everyone's whining about.

Rating: 8/10 (14 July 2007)

I for one thought this was a fantastic movie.
Overall although the scripting was pretty weak, that's hardly the focus of a movie about giant robotic sentient machines that can transform into cars. The whole movie had me enthralled, as a matter of fact, and anyone who thinks I'm a bad movie critic can suck on it. I thought the plot was at least reminiscent of the show, and pretty much summed up the feeling of what Bay and Spielberg were trying to convey - a conflict that puts humans in the crossfire and manages to get them thoroughly involved at the same time.
Shia LaBeouf did much better than I expected, acting-wise, and Megan Fox did a decent job as well. If people are going to movies like this to find some sort of higher meaning or truth in the plot, why the hell bother watching it? Go see other popcorn flicks like the Matrix if that's really what you're after. And hey, the movie definitely had it's share of philosophical rambling, mostly on the part of Optimus Prime. But this begs the question - WHO CARES WHEN YOU'VE GOT A GIANT COMBAT SCENE BETWEEN ROBOTS GOING ON IN FRONT OF YOU? What amuses me the most is that Independence Day was far worse as far as plot and dialogue go, and yet the same people whining about Transformers are the ones who go gaga over Independence Day and its "philosophical truths". Yeah real philosophical, bunch of aliens out to wipe the planet of all life. You know, Bay creates movies like these to please the audience... not to bloody make people think.
People either take movies too seriously or they take themselves too seriously. Sometimes it's a good idea to just sit back and enjoy.