Just finished reading Transformers. It's amazing to me that people get paid ridiculous sums of money to generate sub-par material. I really wanted to like it, but the movie starts out slow, has three groups of main characters, aside from the transformers, and when all three groups get together, there's no real moment or pay-off.
Now, there were several very satisfying scenes and some of the characters were well done and had some nice qualities. I also really liked how they handled the transformers, their back story was well done and the realism, for example, Soundwave is only 4 feet tall when in robot mode, makes it seem like they could actually be walking around. (A far cry from when Singer was up for the movie and was contemplating making them all the same hight in Robot mode.)
However, given the fact that Michael Bay is directing the movie, I think this is going to turn into a dud.
