Average and forgettable

Rating: 4/10 (29 September 2009)

What I liked about the movie:
1. Special effects - you can really see the money they spent.
2. John Turturro - his performance seemed incredibly credible (pun intended) and he outclassed the other actors.
What I didn't like about the movie:
1. Script - there was almost no story and the story that was there (a battle with a pretty bad ass villain) was put aside to make way for a big dose of unfunny comedy (for every joke that worked, 50 other didn't), unnecessary subplots (noone gives a damn about a romance between 2 cardboard cutouts, we want giant robots fighting) and bad dialogue (it looked like they were making this up on the spot).
2. The cast - everyone except Mr Turturro gave an average performance at best and the 2 leads were the worst actors in the movie (Shia has made a career out of shouting one-syllable words repeatedly and Megan Fox really is as untalented as the critics say).
3. The characters - you know a movie is bad when the characters are 1-dimensional (Character development? What's that?), most of them are comic relief but none of them is funny (again, the credit goes to the script writers) or necessary (this movie could do fine without the college roommate crybaby or the idiot from the government).
4. Action sequences - whoever choreographed them has no imagination (You can do ANYTHING with that budget and you go with this? Especially the final battle was weak).
I can't say anything else about it because I don't remember much, even though I saw this yesterday.
My opinion: hire professionals for the 3rd one.