What a fun ride! Even while the first 30 to 45 minutes established the plot and characters there was enough action for the kids to stay interested.  But when the action began in earnest, the action fan in me was intensely rewarded with extended action scenes, excellent detail and realistic dialogue for a completely unrealistic story.  And in a nutshell that is what we are dealing with here. An extravagant story, with no plausability but a fun family ride none-the-less.  It's juvenile in every way but still works as a family friendly action movie.

Once again Director Michael Bay (my age born in 65)  does it big, I mean real big like his movies The Rock Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys.  What I mean is the attention to action scenes. They are completely detailed and roll on long enough for you to feel like there is action, not just a cut scene in a video game.  If you want an action movie this one is high octane joy ride. The CGI (computer generated imagery) was honestly flawless; I give the nod to Industrial Light and Magic on this one. 

Without spoiling the story, the concept here is that sentient robots from another world are brought to earth by a fated past.  The twist is that the robots can identify a mechanical device around them and transform into it which are a vehicle, but mostly cars. They also choose to be aircraft. As the movie reaches the two-thirds mark the back story and current story are tied together.  There are a couple disposable characters in this movie which could have trimmed down the length of the film from 2 hours and 44 minutes for those of us that don't like long movies. 

The robots of course are based on ...   more »