(( Spoiler Alert )) Please someone other than Michael Bay for the next

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2011)

Let us start out with the good: -Action 10/10: The only good thing about this movie are the action scenes. When Optimos fights watch out. It was also good to see more involvement with the newer autobots. I was upset in the previous movie for almost always showing the autobots in their auto form. We got to see a lot more of them in robot form and in combat with this one. I find it hard to fault anything in the action scenes. I especially liked the wingsuits and how intense it felt as guys tried to escape their transports. Not sure where they would go with another one, as it seems all the major Decepticons have been killed (Really bring Megatron back again from being smashed to pieces).
-Acting 3/10: Absolutely horrible. Once more we have the constant dithering between almost all the actors, excepting the soldiers and Optimus Prime. It was almost painful to sit through it all, just to get to the action.
-Plot 6/10: This movie is a story from the old cartoons, where cybertron actually was moved into our solar system. As a child watching it, you do not question such a massive object appearing in Earth's orbit. Now we have to suspend belief for these movies, after all we are watching transforming intelligent alien robots. However, even in the prebious movies, they tried to keep within the boundaries of physics. A massive object like Cybertron appearing that close to Earth, would likely tear the surface apart. At the very least, in this movie, they could have had it cause devastating effects world wide. Which would possibly even the playihng field more and provide a post apocalyptic setting for future movies. Still the fact that they took from the old cartoon added points. The rest is quite atrocious. The way they introduced a new (smoking hot) girl to replace the last, was slapstick at best. They expect us to believe the girl from the first two movies dumps the guy and is a total beeatch. They also expect us to believe that the next girl he dates is working for the right hand man of the Decepticons? The whole scene with Jerry Wang was ludicrous. Seriously we had to sit through all that to get to the final battle? Thank god for scene selection when this comes out on DVD.
-3D 3/10: Really, what is all the hype about 3D? It wasn't that impressive. It seemed Forced in places. It seemed like they did not know when to use it and when not to. The whole thing was more of a minor headache and it is almost twice as much.
-Overall 5.5/10: Rounded down on review vote at my discretion. Truly the only good thing about this movie are the action scenes. Which would be just as good at home on an non-3D HDTV.
One last note, I hope someone else takes the Transformers on. I am tired of the Michael Bay/Shia Labeouf team.