A rather good mess.

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2009)

I've used to watch the original animated 80's Transformers and came to forgive the first 21st century adaptation on the big screen; maybe because I covertly missed the oh-so-commanding voice of Optimus Prime.
But after watching this on some cinema so elaborately sound set-up, I did get the pleasure that I was half-after for: the computer-generated effects pummeling my auditory senses to submission. I believe that's about it. In a way, those shards of "un-obtanium" metallic figures brawling themselves to pieces leaves big to the imagination (and confusion): Who is that battling whom? Who the heck is winning? Why, oh why, with all that technological advancement and "alien" heritage some come to have such "saintly and humanly" conscience?
Stereotypicism was aplenty: a pair that act like some Wayan brothers comedy, a scantily-clad and suggestively-positioned (more often than not) eye candy, an education-oriented fellow who suddenly flips and decided he wants to be the next Indiana Jones, etc.
All is not lost though. This was some of the best Cheetos I've consumed in months. I've never imagined Megan Fox more properly exposed, Shia LaBeouf less clueless than "Disturbia", and John Turturro less convincing than "Brain Donors".
It's good, when you weigh the good from the bad. Hey, I wouldn't spend millions on effects just to fill a movie minute; I'd simply want it to be an indispensable minute of the movie. Though, since watching "Idiocracy", I couldn't help myself to be somehow disturbed.
Go watch it on some bass-booming, wide-screened, and audio surrounded with some good 'ol younger company; just like your mother warned you about some fellow: It is and will be, a good mess.