High-school student Sam Witwicky buys his first car, who is actually the Autobot “Bumblebee.” Other Autobots arrive on Earth, searching for the Allspark, and the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military. Sam and Mikaela are taken by the top-secret agency Sector 7 to help stop the Decepticons, but when they learn the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world

This is a movie for kids and former kids who watched the cartoon version as they grew up. I caught myself groaning several times during the ordeal I suffered trying to watch this. It’s not that it’s a real bad movie, it’s just that I’m probably not the target audience. It’s a fact I will have to live with. I am getting old… Sigh!
It is entertainment and nothing else. Note that I didn’t say good entertainment. Atleast ’some’ semblance of reality would be nice. There’s just no way these robots could be defeated had the movie tried to seem believable. In under a second those fighting it would have been wiped out. Thankful enough for the actors, the robots go into some kind of lets-do-nothing mode during the fights. Otherwise the fight scenes would have lasted about 5 seconds. That’s how powerful the robots feel. And moving 10 feet sometime takes them 5 seconds or more, while it at times takes under a second. Go figure. Guess they can’t make a movie where the robots slaughter everything in sight. No place for humans then I guess…

My rating: 5/10