Don't know how much weight people put into Ebert, but he actually rated the film highly (3 star, would've been 4 if not for the over-long, gratuitous finale/battle/CGI orgy of ILM effects):
:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Transformers (xhtml)
:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Transformers (xhtml)
... I think Michael Bay sometimes sucks ("Pearl Harbor," "Armageddon," "Bad Boys II") but I find it possible to love him for a movie like "Transformers." It's goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to realize how preposterous it is, but to make that into an asset. ...
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