For those who watched the cartoon, years ago...

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2009)

This movie was not designed for normal audiences. It's nothing less than movie created for people with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Let me illustrate this point by discussing the scene where Sam is trying to get away from the Decepticons; and 1 second he's in Bumblebee making his getaway, then suddenly he's in the woods having his life threatened my Megatron. Wait a minute...this is the part where Optimus Prime defends Sam's life and dies in the process...so how did Sam get out of Bumblebee? See this is just 1 example out of many situations in the movie where the convoluted story line is pacing, then suddenly with no continuity goes into another scene. It was quite common in the film to be in one scene, and then cut to the next with no connection, no continuity. One minute they're talking, and the next we cut into some military chatter with some explosions.
Look, I don't expect that Michael Bay is going to pull a 'Wachowski' and direct or build a story line with some higher meanings. After all, it's Transformers not the Matrix, or Being John Malkovich.
But I think Bay has slowly but surely gone over the edge with the constant headache camera shakes, the way over-used 360 degree panning, and the sorry over-used Pyramid plot lines.
The Transformer cartoons had some decent story lines for a cartoon. I think Michael's target audience here is prepubescent teens, who are cracked out on too much sugar and caffeine.
Going into this movie I knew the circumstances involved... But I was still inspired to warn others about the impending headache and the regretful use of time from watching this.
It's clear that Mr. Bay is falling out of scope with his movies. I will not be made a fool of again... I will avert all Bay movies in the future. I will say that I've already boycotted Tom Cruises movies, and haven't regretted it yet. And, at least he's good at his craft!