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FILM EDGE REVIEW OF MICHAEL BAY'S

JULY 3 —— Shift your brain into neutral and buckle up for DreamWorks' popcorn movie of the 2007 summer — popcorn in the sense that it's mostly air, high on carbs and low on nutritional value, but still tasty if you crave a very light snack on a hot afternoon.

TRANSFORMERS confirms everything you expect or dread from a Michael Bay film, depending on your point of view: packed with action, dazzling special effects and never weighed down by realistic acting and drama.  Don't get me wrong, there's a good market for that expectation, and Bay once again fills that niche like no other current director can.  To be realistic, expecting anything more from TRANSFORMERS is a fool's errand to begin with, and begs to argue with a promise the film nor the filmmaker never set out to deliver.

Truly the one person who will (and should) gain anything for their career from TRANSFORMERS is its youthful and charismatic star Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, the boy whose used car must help save the world from alien invasion.  The devoted but dim script by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci races ever forward, leaving all other characters' development lost in the dust: Jon Voight labors to create something out of nothing as the Secretary of Defense, John Turturro's secret agent role is an embarrassment to enact, Josh Duhamel plays a valiant cipher of an American soldier, and Megan Fox is given even less to work with as Sam's comely cohort, another typically underwhelming Bay female lead.

Sam Witwicky is a rich role by comparison, but no doubt the lion's share of credit goes to LaBeouf for fully investing himself in this longshot character to make it pay off at all for the rising star.  Indeed Shia LaBeouf makes the TRANSFORMERS experience — 2 hours and 20 minutes of high octane hijinx — worth the ride, and his efforts should serve his career well as meatier work awaits in the fourth Indiana Jones film and beyond.

The silly season of cinema just got a little more airheaded thanks for TRANSFORMERS, but this cotton candy film may still satisfy the sweet tooth of adolescents and retro-loving adults weaned on such Autobot-ic, toy cartoon fare.  The rest of you may rather wait until Michael Bay's film transforms itself into a DVD this fall.

FILM EDGE RATING: 2 STARS