Transformers (2007)

Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Screenplay: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman Story: John Rogers, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Cast: Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachel Taylor, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voigt, John Torturro
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Movies like Transformers aren't made to be believable, but to entertain. Sometimes both the screenwriters and Micheal Bay forgot this, and that's enough to bring what could have been a treat down to just entertaining enough to defend its runtime.

I'll give it credit for much of its CGI. The transformations are often impressive, even though much of the fighting is less so. Less so is obviously also Megan Fox and her part in the story. I know most box office hits needs a pretty girl in the story one way or another, and I admit I went two years without having seen this movie and had still seen the picture of Megan Fox under the hood of Bumblebee probably thousand times. Hot girls sell tickets and create tension in the movies and attention to the movies.

It's actually often funny. A lot funnier than I expected, but they go too far hoping to create funny and make embarrassment instead. It's not always easy to balance, but in a movie depending mostly on action and CGI it's unforgivable to do such mistakes. It punishes the movie too much.

Even so, with all those buts and no-nos, it manages to entertain. Not enough to applaud the effort, but enough to not feel cheated.