Don't listen to anyone who advises AGAINST seeing it.
Go see it, go with your friends, go SOON so there's a big audience, and don't sit there going through every detail and inspecting every piece of dialogue. Just sit back in your seat with your big drink and your popcorn/candy and enjoy this movie, because it's one hell of an awesome ride.

well said!

Transformers is one of the best movies ever made. How can you not like giant robots pounding the crap out of other giant robots?

If you were honestly suprised that a movie about transforming alien warriors contains a few cheesy lines than you didn't deserve your five bucks in the first place. Go back home and watch your collecters edition of Beaches.

For some reason it's now considered "Cool" to rip on Michael Bay. Sure he's made some turds, but The Rock was awesome, and so was Transformers. Sorry that he doesn't make artsy noir films that only three people in this country are going to watch. He's a whole lot better than John Woo, or some of the other knock-off action directors out there now.

I'm not the biggest fan of Bay either, but Transformers was fun and some "film students" take things way too seriously. There are movies that you say are "good" or "bad" and then there's movies you critique. Transformers was a good movie, in MY opinion - not a deep movie that needs a thorough critique.

-Kegan

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Saw it...thought it was really dissapointing on the initial viewing. And I'm not an artsy filmmaker guy, nor do I (usually) wish for Bay's death after he pops out a movie. Hey, I really liked The Rock, and even Armageddon wasn't half bad, aside from the animal crackers scene. Transformers just had some really bad qualities that far outweighed the good, I thought.

I actually forgot that I as watching a Transformers movie, because for about thirty or forty minutes I kept wondering, "Where the hell are the Transformers?" Sure, you had some moments with Bumblebee, Barricade and Frenzy, but I had to wait nearly half the movie before I got to see Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots, and to add insult to that, Megatron (the main villain from almost every. single. Transformers series.) was nowhere to be found until the last thirty minutes of the movie. And then, he's practically waisted as a character.

The list of waisted characters goes on to include pretty much all of the military guys, who could have had much more screen time along with the Transformers (who, again, were supposed to be the stars of the movie, right?) Bay probably has the word "patriot" tattooed in red, white and blue on his genitalia; what's more patriotic than good ol' Joes slugging it out with Decepticons alongside the Autobots?

Then, well, there's the fact that the writers were trying to cram an American Pie movie into a Transformers movie. The whole "Were you masturbating?" scene in the house (which, in itself, is a whole other rant).

The house scene: completely killed the forward momentum of the movie for me. I think at that point I was ready to leave the theater to go play Star Wars Legos (Part II).

Lions, Tigers, and unneeded characters, oh my!: The whole subplot with the DoD secretary and the computer hackers/programmers/l33t people. Was that really necessary? What did they really accomplish that could not have been accomplished with less characters? Divy up some of the discoveries they made about the signal amongst the military and let it be with that. Free up more storyline/screentime for those characters and *gasp* the Transformers. Everytime the movie shifted back to them, I felt like I was watching another movie.

There was a lot of good humor in the movie, but there were also way, way, way too many forced moments. As if the writers were saying, "HEY! Here's a joke. Laugh!"

But, it wasn't without it's goods, though. I did really enjoy many of the Bumblebee/Sam moments (I thought they captured the mood of the old cartoon pretty well). I also really liked the last thirty or so minutes of the movie (aside from Megatron being limited to pretty much a cameo in the movie). And I'd be lying if I didn't admit that everytime I drive down the highway and see a Peterbilt truck, I expect it to slam on its breaks and transform into Optimus. A boy can only hope...

With all that said, I'm planning on seeing it again on DVD. Maybe I'll enjoy it a little more...I dunno. I've also made it a point to tell people they should go see it, if they're thinking about going to, while it is still on the big screen.

Holy Crap. I do the exact same thing everytime I see a Peterbilt truck. I was just about to post that, too. I get a little twinge of excitement each time I see one now, and actually find myself preferring Peterbilt's to other semi-trucks. That's how I know I at least enjoyed Transformers - I now how a preference when it comes to Semi's.

I wasn't expecting much more than Giant robots blowing things up, but even that wasn't entertaining.

The action scenes happened way too quickly that you couldn't see much detail in the robots. The trailer looks better than the whole movie.

The sad part of it all was they tried to add a human element to the story and that completely made it worse.. I kept thinking who gives a damn about Sam and his girl friend

I had more fun watching Live Free or Die Hard, even while falling asleep for ten minutes in the last act. At least the action scenes were more fun to watch in Die Hard... But with Transformers, i kept thinking "when is this goign to end?"