Last night, I went to the first showing of Transformers shown digitally and I was not disappointed. If you have a digital theater in your area, you must go and watch the movie on one of these screens and you should not download this movie at all. This is an Independence Day weekend action movie that has been lacking for the last few years. Even if you did not like or play with the toys, you are in for a treat with this eye candy.
The opening sequence of the movie sets the stage for the movie. A U.S. base in Qatar is attacked in a long detailed sequence. Michael Bay is known for going over the top with special effects and he does not fail here. If this movie does not win best Special Effects this year, then this is a great travesty of our time. While the movie is advertised as an action movie, there are many laughs to be found throughout the whole movie. There is always some light comedy throughout the movie. There is even one section where Michael Bay kind of rips on his own movie. When the Autobots come to earth, they fall out of the sky like asteroids and one of the extra gives a comment something to the nature of "This is way better than Armageddon" (For those that do not know Armageddon was a Michael Bay filmed release 7/1/98 starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.)
To sum it all up, this is a great summer popcorn movie and should be enjoyed by those wanting a good story of robots saving the world. There is some cheese in the movie, but you would expect that from this movie. Transformers is definitely "more than meets the eye".
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