The voice cast also does an overall superb job. Megan Fox's acting does a reasonable job bringing some interest to her character to beyond her looks. Shia Lebeouf plays an important part in selling the reality of the robots as the lead character Sam, and also carries an easy likability factor. However, the cast has got it where it counts. Any positives from the supporting cast (including the strange yet entertaining overacting of John Turturro) are outweighed by the large set of negatives. Jon Voight's Secretary of Defense character completely baffles me, which makes me think that audiences responded positively to the President in Independence Day doing aerial dogfights. Also, most of the human related humor gags miss badly, which makes it hurt more considering a lot of the characters were unnecessary. With such a large number of underdeveloped characters, names are pretty much luxury. Along with this however, are a large number of writing and acting issues. In typical epic fashion, this movie contains a sprawling cast. And unlike the other blockbusters that have came out this year, these effects have a sense of weight that adds so much to the visual satisfaction. Whether it's transforming on the move, bashing the living daylights out of each other, or just standing and talking, these guys alone make the movie work. Watching these robots move is to realize a revelation to what is possible with modern movie effects. Seeing autobots and decepticons in glorious photo-realistic CGI is enough to wring out any childhood fantasy from anybody (not just boys from the 80s).
It's a good thing that the robots do work. Now that's out of the way, there's a lot of stuff here that works and a lot that doesn't. Frame for frame this movie screams Michael Bay.
I say this first because if you think this movie will be anything more than this, you will be disappointed on some level (as I was).
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