This movie should transform into something else

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2012)

The story is so preposterous and the characters are so stupid that is hard not to feel bad just from watching it.
The acting is by default in auto-pilot mode. No one even tries to make a good job.
And the stereotyped (and racist) voice acting is the very same that was used in the previous entries of the series.
Another problem is its length. With a runtime of 154 minutes, the movie is simply too long.
On the good side, the special and sound effects are top notch (as expected for a $200 million movie) and the action scenes are less hectic and with less use of shaky-cam than in the first two movies, but still quite annoying (During the battle scenes the situation still occurs where you simply don't know who's a Decepticon and who's an Autobot).
The movie works ultimately way more as a big ad for the Hasbro toys as an independent full length feature film. (Where do the new Autobots that weren't in the first movies come from? Probably from the Hasbro Marketing Department.)
But what really makes me scratch my head is why they would cast Frances MacDormand and John Malkovich. Their parts give them no chance at all of showing their talent, while at the same time the target moviegoer has no idea who these actors are. So they work neither as star power marketing to sell more tickets nor as a way of improving the overall quality of the film.
Therefore, unless you're already a Transformers fan, you should avoid this one at all costs.