I watched the movie on Thursday and I thought it was pretty good. For once in a live-action movie in recent times the CGI was impressive. Story was good too but overall I found some of the characters (particularly LaBeouf's) and dialog annoying. The product placement was way too blatant too, between iPod, HP, Xbox, GM (many of the vehicles including all but Optimus of the autobots were GMs), and the Army/Airforce.
As my roommate put it in his mini-review he gave me:
"I want to see robots being really evil and destroying stuff like the first 5 minutes of the movie and less Optimus Prime saying how much humans are awesome creatures followed by shots of army men holding up their babies in the sunset.
LeBeouf’s character is the only one who actually fits his geekiness although it goes alittle too far when he’s running around his house trying to find something and the robots are hiding out in his backyard for some reason. There’s just too many other characters who try to fill the comedic role, bouncing around to get screen time.
Despite all that the movie’s worth a view, the giant robot’s fighting is something to awe for. Just try to ignore all the army/navy/ and “we can’t do this without the airforce” propaganda."
By no means does it make the movie bad, even with the annoyances here and there, I found it worth my time (being a 2hr+ movie, it didn't seem too long like some movies feel at that point.
Also, Megan Fox is too hot to be a 17 year old in the movie, probably because she's 21. (So is LaBeouf but he at least can pull it off.) Her part in the movie, I feel, was probably the worst because of her impact of the entire thing, but at least she's capable of being eye candy.
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