The idea of combining Michael Bay and toys sounded immensely unappealing but to many people's surprise this turned out to be bright blockbuster excitement, and made tonnes of money. It's a very good, commercial story: a seventeen year old high school boy with a crush on the hot girl discovers that is new car is a good transformer and He Is The Only One Who Can Save The World Because He Owns The Special Thing.
To add some extra appeal there's Megan Fox as an alien (okay that's mean - as an improbably gorgeous creature who is meant to be the same age as Shia Le Bouf), Josh Duhmanel for some male handsomeness, Rachel Taylor to play a girl with a brain (a hacker who disappears from the story), Anthony Anderson for black comic relief, John Turturro and Jon Voight for acting fred. Bay's hyperactive directing style gets irritating at times, though it does suit the action involving the fast moving creatures, and there is a sense of fun.
Some solid scenes too like the tape player turning into a creature on board Air Force One, and Anderson's rants as a hacker. It felt as though it went on too long and got dumber and more like a video game but it's fine.
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