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There's been many plenty who have discussed the whole Transformers movie and opinions are quite ranged.  The biggest thing you gotta realize with a movie like this is that it's meant to be high velocity, cheesy one-liners, explosions galore peppered with state-of-the-art special effects.  That's the main thing.

I think many people going in were expecting more character development from the Transformers themselves.  Let us not kid ourselves.  This is Michael Bay we're talking about here.  His "characters" typically have the personality range of a shoebox.  You can take any person on this planet, interchange them with the people on screen in his movies and virtually receive the same outcome.

Plotwise this movie was no different than most of the generic comic book movies  pummelling our TVs these days.  Some baddy has an object to destroy/take over mankind, so super hero must recover/destroy it.  Add an underwhelming, fake geek hero to make it somewhat appealing to computer nerds and you've got a target audience.

You don't watch a movie like this with high expectations except in one area: adrenaline rush.  You watch it to relive your childhood, your fantasies and fill your hollow existence with the eye candy of the impossible made possible via special effects.  That is the extent of this movie's purpose.

That said, I enjoyed it with this lens in mind.  I wanted to have my nuts shattered by the intense battles, cool special effects, and mega explosions.  I think the movie mostly offered that.  The human involvement was a bit much though and probably detracted more than anything from the central theme of the movie (which naturally was the Transformers themselves).  The humor worked enough to prevent me from vomiting and the characters weren't overly annoying.  Honestly, I could easily watch this movie  over and over for just the energetic appeal and the action.

The look of the movie was quite good.  The transformers themselves didn't look too cheesy.  The faces of the Decepticons were a bit monstrous.  But the graphics for the most part was fluid to suspend my disbelief.  I honestly wish they didn't use the old Transformers sound though.  That came off being cheesy.  It was like a silly sound byte being thrown in for now purpose.

The only thing that got on my nerves was Glen.  Initially, he wasn't too bad as the over-the-top comedian.  However, his constant need to shout was extremely nerve grating.  He sounded like he was doing a reverse stoning via Krispy Kremes half the time.

Anyway, this is a geek guy movie.  Don't take your dates to this, unless they love action and geeky childhood stuff.