Transformers - 6.0

Transformers is pretty typical of the Michael Bay, summer blockbuster, watch everything blow-up genre - it was shockingly directed by who else but the one and only Michael Bay. While much of it is pretty standard fare, including bad acting, nonsensical plot transitions, and terrible dialogue, I did find Transformers more entertaining than many of the other blockbusters that were released this summer like Spiderman 3, Die Hard 4, and Pirates 3 because it didn't have that same been there, done that feel to it. In fact, I was extremely impressed by the special effects in Transformers (and this was watching it on DVD not in the theater mind you) as the actual transformers rarely seemed clunky or out of place while interacting with humans. I was pretty skeptical that a transformer movie could work on this level, so well done special effect mavens. Bottom line, in what was an extremely weak summer season, Transformers was probably the most entertaining action blockbuster out there besides the new Bourne and Harry Potter movies - not the highest of praise but when it comes to Michael Bay, better than a lot of the other crap put out there status actually places it in a pretty lofty place in his filmography. note - sorry for all the Michael Bay hate, he is what he is and really isn't all that bad. It's just that I read a suggestion that he could do a better job making this new war film called The Few than Michael Mann, which obviously is one of the more ludicrous things every written (or said) - I mean what's next, demanding that Spielberg turn over the reigns of the new Indiana Jones movie to Brett Ratner? Anyways, that's what put me in an even more anti-Michael Bay mood than usual.