David Corkery
A live-action Transformers movie was always going to cause problems. Like all comic-book/cartoon favourites that have entered our pop culture psyche, it carried with it an extensive and devoted fan base of now grown up children. Grown up children that are as hard to please as normal children. Yet Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg laughed in the face of nerdiness and undertook the immense task of creating a big-budget motion picture spectacle that would not only satisfy the die-hard fans, but stand proud as a credible, worthy cinematic success.
They did not succeed.
