It Could Have Been Great

Rating: 7/10 (24 June 2009)

Transformers was really good, and yet really disappointing at the same time. The effects were superb, and the acting wasn't bad either. The story could have used more depth, but that's forgivable.
The main issue with this movie is all of the sexual innuendos. The first movie had one awkward scene that most people could only cringe through. This movie assaulted me from the beginning with a dog (Mojo) asserting his dominance on another male dog, and continued to have immature sexual references all throughout.
Considering this is a film with a target audience of children as well as adults, I'm extremely disappointed with the writers and the producers. The level of immaturity is too great in several paces for me to allow children to see it. My little brother (he's eight) has been counting down the days until it came into theaters and was trying to convince my family to take him to see it at least a week ago. He's going to be absolutely crushed when we tell him he can't go.
This could have been a really good movie that everyone in the family could see. Instead the writers decided that they would rather include multiple perverse jokes and bar children from the theater.
I would have given Transformers a solid 8.5 or maybe even 9 out of 10 stars. As it is, I can't give it anything higher than a 7. It's so disappointing to me that Hollywood thinks a movie has to be loaded with sex to make it interesting to the average audience. There may be a time and a place for that, but that time and place is *not* in a movie based off of a children's cartoon.