Ok, so I went to go and see Transformers this last Saturday and it was pretty much what I expected, which disappointed me somewhat. In certain key plot points I had flashbacks to the other end-of-the-world flick "Independence Day". You know, we get suddenly attacked by aliens, the military gets involved, there's been a cover up for years and we have one of their ships/robots hidden in a secret base under the Earth/Hoover dam.

Then there's the love story. Yeah...the geeky dude that gets the hot girl. No, that's never happened in a Hollywood film before.

 For those of you who haven't seen it, I don't want to ruin the movie, but there were so many just absolutely childish parts that it was really distracting from the coolness of the Transformers. Like the scene where Optimus and Co. are hiding from the kid's parents like a bunch of teenage hooligans up to no good.

I also loved how the Decepticons are coming to destroy them, they're running out of time, and Mr. Deed's butler decides that it would be a good idea to give the other characters the grand tour of their secret base under the Hoover Dam. Not only do they get the tour, he goes above and beyond and gives them a demonstration of how the cube turns everyday objects into evil robots. Thanks, Mr. Sneaky Sneaky. 

Then there's the part where Megatron is chasing the kid, has him stranded on a roof and actually asks him to hand over the 'allspark' cube thing. Ok, dude, you're a fifty foot tall evil robot that hates humans, just grab him, squish him and get your cube deal. But no, he has a conversation with the dude and then, instead of grabbing him he tries to hit him and misses, losing the cube deal in the process.

There were other problems, but those will do for now.

Now I might be reading too much into some of these things, but the special effects WERE really cool. I thought they did a fantastic job on the animation and pulling off the transformations. They didn't have that cool sound effect enough though. I think I heard it maybe twice. C'mon guys. All together, it was a pretty cool flick to see if you don't take movies about giant robots too seriously like I apparently do. But if you haven't seen it, just ignore the weird parts and enjoy the giant machines beating the crud out of each other and have a great time.