Great effects,loads of fun, but just doesn't work

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2011)

This movie would be amazing as a television series, but i thought that for a movie it was just a little too loud. The movie opens with an explanation about how the earth was visited by transformers long before advanced human civilization develops. Pretty good idea...except why wouldn't the transformers have stayed and interrupted human history all the way, and not have just randomly disappeared after the stone age? This is the first of many plot holes as the story progresses. After main titles, there is an amazing action sequence which involves a special ops team called "N.E.S.T" which consists of human and autobot soldiers that work together to find and weed out remaining decepticons. They find a massive decepticon that bursts through a bridge. When optimus mortally wounds him, he tells them the fallen will ride again. The second that line came out, i kept a close eye on my watch waiting for this to end. It was followed by the introduction to Sam Witwicky's family preparing for Sam to go to college. This scene erupts into a battle between bumblebee and the kitchen sink (household objects are turned into mini decepticons.)Megan fox shows her face, which leads to bad acting, even worse attempts at comic relief that were over the top and just unnecessary, i mean mini robots humping the crap out of Megan fox's leg? yeah, no... Even more annoying was having to see mudflap and skids, two annoying autobots that were a racial slurr themselves. Still, this movie had it's up's and downs. There were amazing battle sequences with just about a billion slow mo sequences (half of which were focused on Megan fox, which was at times a let down) but we were never properly introduced to the main villain of the film called the fallen. he sort of just came into the movie, and was killed almost as quickly and abruptly as he was introduced.
If you haven't already seen this film i recommend that all ages under 40 that can at least tolerate bad humor and acting should view it. it is a good experience with visually stunning images and villains you can at least remember the name of. i still give it a 7/10, however bad it may seem.