I wasn't expecting much going into this movie--actually, I expected the worst, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn't bad at all. In fact, I actually liked it.
The graphics were great, the acting was not overly cheesy (with exception to a few scenes), the soundtrack was good, the plot did not suck, and it was HILARIOUS. The ending was pretty poor, mostly because it ended too soon due to the usual "OMFG A MOVIE THAT IS LONGER THAN 2.5 HOURS!" syndrome that plagues most of our cinema these days. I don't know where the colony of people who don't like long movies is, or why they are the only ones answering surveys for the movie companies, but if anyone finds it, let me know so I can nuke the place.
Shia Leboeuf (try typing that one without Google) did a great job doing what he does best in this movie, he was awkwardly funny throughout, and his comedic acting was at its best in this film. I was pretty impressed with his comedy and it carried the movie in my opinion, although there were certainly some key humorous moments from the Transformers themselves as well.
There was some brief tackiness during a scene when a secret "Sector 7" division of the government raids Shia Leboeuf's character Sam's house trying to find evidence of the Transformers, which basically includes every line spoken by John Turturro's character, who is an agent for the secret Sector 7 faction. He's a very strange man in every movie that I have seen him in, and his character seemed very unnecissary in this movie, and really only served to derail the film from what it should have been focusing on, but lacked; more dialog between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and a longer final fight scene between the Autobots and Decepticons.
Nonetheless, this was a fun movie that did a good job of representing what a live-action Transformers movie should be; fun, funny, and fast paced, with a side of kick-ass computer generated imagery. Whether you liked the TV show or not, or whether you ever even saw it or not, this movie is totally worth seeing, despite the crap-tacularly brief ending.
