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Saw TRANSFORMERS Sunday night in a sold-out (!) theatre in suburban Virginia.

The film is, well, it's exactly what it is -- a self-aware summer blockbuster that makes fun of itself in every scene yet delivers on the action. The crowd adored it -- I kept thinking if this had been a test screening or something, Michael Bay would be giving high fives! -- and I have to admit, as idiotic as the whole thing was, I kinda liked it too.

I know of the toys, but not much more than that they existed. I'd imagine, though, that fans of a certain age must be awestruck when Optimus Prime and Megatron and the others -- I don't remember their names -- show up.

My only real complaint? The transformations themselves were so CGI-fast that it looked like a blur rather than the Rubik's Cube delight of the original designs. Director Bay, in an interview somewhere, maybe WIZARD, said he had to convince hardcore Transformer fans that the blocky transformations of the toys and cartoons just wouldn't be realistic onscreen today. Some transformations had 10,000 movements, he said.

Still, it was too much of a blur, the unfoldings.

Funny also that Transformers and decepticons seem only to be able to take over GM cars and trucks!!

Final question: What city were they supposed to be in at the end. It's not Vegas, not L.A. (or is it?), not Phoenix and yet they seem to say it;s only 20 miles from Hoover Dam. It seemed a generic dying East Coast downtown somehow out West, but maybe I'm just missing it. WAS it a real city?

All in all, more than meets the eye!

david