[CaptainCrunch]

Summer movies for the most part are formula movies, and nothing is more formula then Michael Bay's vision of the transformer movies. All it is, is a demonstration reel of the power of special effects and CGI.

Its also a demonstration of terrible script writing, lousy acting, unsympathetic characters and a bland formulaic storyline thats been repeated over and over and over again.

I have admiration for what I call a smart action movie, where the action is there to progress a storyline and flesh out the characters.

In the case of Michael Bay, you can almost hear him making explosion sounds, and jet aircraft and helicopter sounds as he shoots scene after scene of gree screen.

But I'm old, and kind of sick of wire fighting, explosions galore CGI filled movies.

I came from a simpler day where a action movie like Every Which Way but lose had a plot, was well acted, didn't take itslef seriously and a punch in the mouth was a punch in the mouth.

Or the original Indian Jones movies that were so good because when Indy fought it was firmly laced on the ground and every punch looked like it actually hurt.

But in the changed world where every hero and villian has to be able to do zero G based astral wire framed slow motion karated it becomes totally lame.

There's a reason why I don't go to theatres to spend $12.50 on a movie, for the most part these movies just aren't worth it.

I liked the first Transformers but I think the novelty of it disguised a lot of its weaknesses, and Meagan Fox really disguised her lack of acting chops behind her tight a$$.

By the second one the novelty had worn off and Bay was really exposed as only really knowing one aspect out of the many aspects needed to make a third one.

The third one is a transformer movie all right, but this time Optimus Prime is rusted out, The rest of the autobots have flat tires and in the words of every old man everywhere

"This movie is so overdone that its stupid"