But as a fan, I went to the theater to see the movie, And the reviews and critics were right. The movie tries to do too much and in the end disappoints.

First, the movie fails to fully introduce any of the new characters, and for most of the first half is quite scatter brained and moves from sequence to sequence, failing to bring any of these stories really together.

Despite the poor development, the worst part of the movie was the cheesiness. Yes, we all know this is a comic adaptation. Yes, we all know comic books are cheesy. But not to this extent. For moments, I had actually believed we were sitting in the wrong theater, watching some horrible chick flick. There were moments in the movie that seemed out of ordinary, random, like chosen scenes from SNL making parodies of itself. As funny as this may sound, it made it difficult to continue watching the movie. We were constantly reminded of Tobey Maguire and James Franco’s inexperience as actors. Neither of whom could pull of the cheesiness or light-hearted fun.

The movie writers completely moved away from what the first two movies set up. And even worse, they deceived the movie-goer with the trailers. You enter the theater expecting more action, some darker events, but perhaps the same light-hearted comic book fun. Yet, you get less action, less plot development, “dark” events that are impossible to take seriously and will just laugh at instead, and over-sapped cheesiness that puts “Scary Movie,” “Not Another Teen Movie,” and “Can’t Hardly Wait” to shame. For a movie that was portrayed in the trailers as “the darkest of the three,” it earned the most laughters, mockeries, disappointments and walk-outs I’ve seen in a Spiderman screening.

It was honestly difficult to sit through this movie, it was nearly unbearable. Very disappointed in the way they chose to finish the series. I give Spiderman 3 a not so webtastic 5/10

This movie takes no time to get started, introducing the young and highly talented Shia LaBeouf playing the role of Sam Witwicky, A role he plays to perfection. Without Shia I feel this movie would have been a complete disaster, he truly does steal the show for me.

Although a lot of the plot is complete nonsense and at times makes no sense what so ever, the film makes up for it in some very humors ways. One of my biggest concerns was the blatant advertising shoved down our throat, I saw HP (Hewlett Packard) at least 4 times in the opening 10 minutes, This continues throughout the movie with cars, energy drinks, electrical products, you name it…. its plugged in this film.

Advertising aside, lets talk about the Transformers. They are almost all there with the noticeable difference being bumblebee, of course a VW beetle in the original cartoons, now a Camero? Bay’s idea was to modernize the concept, there had to be some changes and he did reference the original characters VW Beetle early on, during the introduction of the new Camero version Bumblebee.

Optimus Prime’s character was so badly scripted it made me cringe on several occasions but I think his voice acting was pretty spot on. The CGI was incredibly well done but the action sequences were a little too fast and made for some very hectic scenes where almost nothing but a mass of metal could be made out.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie, it’s quirky humor and decent lead actor helped carry the pointless sub-plots and bad dialog, I’d give Transformers the movie a solid 7/10