Michael Bay does not understand human beings

Rating: 3/10 (17 March 2010)

Michael Bay introduces this film's heroine bent over a motorbike in very short shorts. The only other young female who gets screen time in this film reveals a metallic tail from underneath a very short skirt. Michael Bay doesn't know how to write women.
He has created 2 horrendously stereotypical black robots, gold teeth and large ears included, with names like "mudflap" and "skids" one of whom proudly proclaims they don't know how to read. Michael bay can't write black characters.
Transformers is a film series derived from a cartoon and toy range. Despite this Michael Bay doesn't mind including words slang word for female genitalia in the dialogue, and featuring a hot lady cyborg (with a tail no less) trying to seduce the hero. Michael Bay does not have a sense of what is appropriate for his target audience.
Michael Bay is very good at displaying all things military. He can make any shot look like he is trying to sell cars- this atrocious advertising slickness where everything mechanical is fetishised. He's very good at orchestrating fight scenes that make NO visual sense- just bits of metal hitting metal. And he's very good at making a film last about an hour longer than it needs to.
Transformers: ROTF is dreadful. One can almost find a strange respect in the epic scale of it's dreadfulness. There's an audacity there, one that suggests many involved in this film have somehow lost touch with the real world. If you have a love of bad films, or find movie clichés hilarious, it may even have some replay value. What it doesn't have is a single believable human character... or a soul.