Antony’s blog

As previous readers may have noted, I have a penchant for bad movies. This past weekend I went to see the Transformers movie, expecting no more than what seemed to be promised: a mindless but fun summer popcorn movie that would appeal to the nostalgia I felt for the carton/tv show/toy series I loved as a kid. And it basically delivered on that promise, in a manner typical of director Michael Bay’s style which, as a friend of mine put it, is to make movies which are essentially a 2 hour preview for themselves.

One of the fun things about a movie like this is that it gives the critics good material to work with when pointing out its shortcomings. Here are two of my favorites:

How can a pickup truck contain enough mass to unfold into a towering machine? I say if Ringling Brothers can get 15 clowns into a Volkswagen, anything is possible. (Roger Ebert)

No screen cut lasts more than two seconds, and the good robots and bad robots all look exactly alike. I could never tell who was winning, who was losing, who had The Cube, or why it mattered so much in the first place. They could have spliced in battle footage from Godzilla and it would have made just as much sense. (Rex Reed)