The following is an actual transcript from the Telegraph newsroom:

Travis Fain (author of the often-insane Lucid Idiocy blog): So, I saw “Transformers.”
Me: What did you think?
T-Fain: “F***in awesome.”

Now, we do sometimes have conservations with more heft and less profanity, but I really don’t think there’s any other way to sum up quite what Michael Bay has accomplished here. It might just be the loudest movie I’ve ever seen, and quite possibly the perfect summer blockbuster.

I was beginning to think that that was a dead art. Look at what we’ve been subjected to so far that summer; Spidey 3: boring and, much worse, wussy; Pirates 3: boring, boring and more boring until the final hour of battling pirates; Shrek 3: Meh. Bay, however, has managed to craft a movie that was surprisingly funny, never boring and just a whole lot of senseless fun.

Even whether I wanted to criticize him, which I don’t, he’s pretty much rendered all such efforts moot by having a character in his movie declare: “This is a hundred times cooler than Armageddon.” Now that’s chutzpah.

But, even whether I can’t bring myself to critique that work of high art, I did have three questions that perhaps the few folks who bother to read that can help me out with.

1. Does it assemble me either sexist or racist whether I can’t bring myself to believe that the future of the Earth depends on the computer-hacking skills of Rachel Taylor and Anthony Anderson?

I might be more willing to believe that Taylor’s blond bombshell was indeed a scientist of that caliber whether they

didn’t take the date to so perfectly moisten her lips before each scene (and don’t even try to tell me I’m the only person who noticed that!) As for Anthony Anderson, I love the guy. Ever since “Hustle and Flow” I’ve just smiled every instance he’s presented on screen, and he’s very funny here. But Mr. Anderson has made his trademark being a big goof, not precisely the kind of guy you’d shout when the world was about to end.

2. (OK, from here on out I have to concede that I know next to nothing about Transformers, the toys or the TV series. I’m certainly not mocking anyone who did or still does; it just wasn’t my thing.)

Did anyone else think, when John Turturro first arised, that he was going to turn into a giant Decepticon? There was just that look in his eyes that made me think, even though he was clearly having fun, that he was more than a little robotic.

3. And finally, only one question of logic, which should really have no place in a movie like that and will probably just manage to compose me look silly. But bear with me anyway.

If both the Autobots and the Decepticons are from space, how is it that the Decepticons all seem to speak in something that vaguely resembles Chinese? There’s surely an reply to that in all the Transformers lore I have somehow managed to miss out on.

But really, does it matter anyway? Michael Bay has crafted a nearly perfect ball of popcorn, and for that I can really only say thanks.

Original post by Reel Fanatic