Jul

11

Transformers is new summer blockbuster with the weight of Steven Spielberg behind it. A few middle of the road stars, a completely unbelievable plot — no I'm not referring to the living transforming robots or the story about how they came to be or even the science fiction part in general. Oh no, that part is believable compared to the whole plot line of the movie. The premise of the plot strains credulity. It requires that you believe that the people in the movie were as dumb as they were made out to be.

Why is it so difficult to demonstrate a certain level of competence in people? Oh, I know. That would require the screenplay writers actually to have to think to come up with some kind of plot beyond just banal stupidity. Instead of writing a good plot, they substitute special effects and cut from scene to scene so quickly that only an MTV attention span idiot could even begin to follow what is going on.

But I digress. Let me cut to the chase: This movie was genuinely bad. A complete waste of my time and my money.

We took our boys to see it (8 and 12) and I was truly embarrassed. There were completely unnecessary scenes with inappropriate discussions and behaviors, especially for a movie aimed at kids.

Hollywood should be ashamed of this movie. I cannot recommend enough to miss this movie. If you must go do not take the kids! On my entertainment scale of 1 - 10, I give it a 2 (and that's because there was an occasional action scene that was pretty good).

On my "Prudish Dad" scale of 1 - 10, I give it a negative 1, not because it's so horrible for adults but because it's inappropriate for kids. Many scenes are only for shock value, to make up for a movie that was poorly written. I was embarrassed several times during the movie and wished that my boys weren't present.

Save your money.


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