if you only see one Giant Killer Robot Smashdown movie this year....See this one.
ROBOT SMASHDOWN GO BOOM!!!! Because  You've never, ever seen anything like it.....

Remember that moment in Jurassic Park when you first saw the Dinos? Remember that moment at the opening of Star Wars when the Star Destroyer came sweeping overheard? Remember that moment when you truly, really, believed a man could fly? Remember that sense of awe and wonder at it all? Good. Because this is a movie where that sense of wonder, visual spectacle and joy is seen for the first time, again. And in this age of omnipresent CGI , coming up with something quite so dazzling and awe-inspiring is truly difficult.

From the overblown epic director Michael Bay - creator of overblown, hyper testosterone action flicks full of building crushing mayhem, comes Transformers. From the tourettes-fuelled hyperviolence of bad Boys II, to sprawling War epic Pearl harbor, to intergalactic Planet killer Bruce Willis blowing up asteroids in Armageddon, No-one - but no-one directs mayhem and explosions like Michael bay. And in Transformers, he reaches his apex. On paper it may look like an odd choice, but in reality, he's a perfect choice.

Because Transformers is spectacular, in all senses of the word. Its spectacular, city smashing, hyperkinetic, adrenlin fuelled, gleeful wanton property destruction and total mayhem. its also spectacularly entertaining like no other film I've seen in a long time.In all honesty, I can't remember the last time i saw a film so filled with a gleeful sense of fun and wanton demolition....its a blast.

Its churlish to mock a film about 100 foot high killer robots for its unrealistic plot; but with a razor thin mcguffin used to propel the plot forward, its all about control of the earth. Two warring factions of the transformers are both seeking the allspark - a device which remake our world in their image and wipeout mankind ; one - the Deceptions - for evil domination, and one - the Autobots - to protect us from robot obliteration.

Cut to a race against time across three continents, from the Middle East to middle America. In the middle of it all is a boy with the key to the location of the allspark and his car....only its not a car. its a shapeshifting robot from outerspace to protect him, as the US military, secretive government organisations, and two sides of giant Killer Robots converge on him with spectacular results. woah.

Ok, so the teenager in trouble plot is a bit shoehorned in, but we didn't come to see the film for that did you? no. the main selling point never was the teenage subplots. it was always going to be shapeshifting killer robots, in visual effects almost beyond belief. it was always going to be about spectacle, and pure blockbuster entertainment.

There's two films Transformers reminds me of: Flash Gordon, and War of the Worlds (the Spielberg one). Flash gordon for its daft ludicrousness and choosing just the perfect tone for the source material - one of pure, campy entertaining fun that never ever takes itself too seriously.... and War of the Worlds for the visually specatcular and mindblowingly huge action sequences. now put the two together, and you've got this.

Transformers? Believe me, you'll believe a car can fly. That a stereo can turn into a mischevious robot. You'll believe in that small inner child in you again. Believe it or not, Transformers is perhaps THE blockbuster of the year. So many other movies this summer have promised so much, to deliver so little; and yet Transformers is totally the opposite way around. It delivers. Yeah,  its dumb. Yes , the plot is thin. Yes, the action is spectacular.

But think about it - you didn't come to Transformers for existential poetry and self-doubting sueprheroes...you came to see the spectacle. You came to see Giant Killer Robots. You came to be entertained. And entertained you will be. And then some. Because Transformers might just about be ready to rewrite the rule book and raise the bar on blockbuster entertainment; its the perfect summer blockbuster.

Unmissable.ALL HAIL MEGATRON!

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