{"id":541,"date":"2007-07-05T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/07\/transformers-is-hot-but-stupid-like-most-things-out-of-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:26:30","slug":"transformers-is-hot-but-stupid-like-most-things-out-of-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/07\/05\/transformers-is-hot-but-stupid-like-most-things-out-of-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers is hot, but stupid, like most things out of Hollywood."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re going to see Transformers<\/em>, make sure you leave any expectations of anything other than a mindless CG-fest at home. In fact, just leave your brain at home with a nice, thick book, along with your sense of decency and any ability to think critically about anything.<\/p>\n

Just don’t leave your decorum at home, because you might end up acting like the herd of chubby bi-trendy freaks that sat in front of me last night.
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\nWith the exception of a few decidedly lower-quality moments that looked like someone filmed the action with my<\/em> camera, it was quite lovely. It could’ve used a few dozen more explosions, at least two more instances of buildings being completely leveled [at least one of those by Starscream, maybe] a couple handfulls more random instances of transforming, flying through the air, and kicking ass, and way less bullet time, but, other than that, it was exactly what I expected.<\/p>\n

For people who might be going back to see it ten or twelve more times, a few pointers to make the moviegoing experience more pleasant for the people who aren’t paying with mom and dad’s money:<\/p>\n