Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 20

The Transformers movie. Where do I start? I guess I’ll start with what was good about it. The Autobots (or GM) vs. the Decepticons (or Ford) both looked cool. The vehicles where cool, the planes and helicopters where cool, they transformed cool. The film was pumped stock full of cool. The old fanboys had their issues; Octimus Prime now has flames on his truck, Bubble Bee is now a sleak new camero, no longer a VW bug and Megatron is a jet now and no longer a big gun, to name just a few. The real problem here was Michael Bay. The guy goes way overboard, by the end of the movie there is so much destruction and chaos, that you no longer knew what they were all fighting for in the first place, and if you did, by then you just didn’t care. The question is what do we really expect here. It’s about machines that transform into machines for our viewing pleasure. Hey, and it looked cool.