generic film for a generic audience

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2011)

Micheal Bay is the king of typical bad structured film making and yet he delivers from a visual aspect. Where the movie failed is how boring it is and the constant rehashing from bad pun to another. The movie had no part in trying to recreate history thats what worked for The Watchmen, really a pointless first half and why couldn't this be the first movie?
The biggest surprise came from Malkovich and Tudyk the both came off very naturally and I'll admit that alone was worth the admission other than that Shia's character has always been the weakest for comedy relief. He will always be typecast. Its like a bad sitcom and the canned laughter is there. He constantly yelling and come off as contrite,whiny,malcontent douche bag. In a million years what guy gets a bombshell of a girlfriend without a job; that was the biggest slap in the face towards the audience right there.
The movie was predictable and went on way too long during the second half,there was too much unnecessary action like Optimus gets caught in a crane but they show Shia's character fighting for a good 30 minutes until Bay shows Optimus again. Oh Btw Why did Optimus not get his trailer back he said he needed it?
There's too much flaws and if you like a movie same as the last yet less annoying. I say watch it. However if your a movie fan you'll find it boring, same generic speech Optimus always seems to give,same bad toilet humour other than Tudyk and Malkovich and if your was in high school I would enjoy this. Its a shut your brain off movie simply that.
Bay should do the movie world a favour and retire, I always liked transformers as kid and all three of these movies he did ruined my childhood. A great director like a Nolan or Matthew Vaughn is needed for character development.