About As Much As Meets The Eye

I decided to go see a movie on my birthday. I couldn't go see Harry Potter 5 without seeing 3 and 4 first, and 6 plus hours of movies sounded like a lot, so I went with Transformers. [Spoiler alert. And by the way, Voldemort kills Hermione in book 7.]

I thought Caveman did a pretty good job in the lead role. Some of the saved-by-the-bell-esque juvenile drama was a little annoying, but overall not too distracting. And the effects were very cool.

Some of the Transformers' dialog killed me:

OP: It's you and me, Megatron!
Megatron: No, it's just me!

Megatron, first words after waking up from an 80 year coma: You've failed me again, Star Scream!

Classic stuff.

I was a little confused by some plot points though. For example, why did the government try to hide the evidence of the Transformers, when there were hundreds or thousands of eye witnesses who saw them fighting in the street? And why did they think the best way to protect the cube was to give it to a human and have him try to run it up to the top of a building and deliver it to a guy in a helicopter? Um... wasn't the human a little more likely to get stepped on than an Autobot? And if they wanted to take the cube to the roof, why didn't they give it to any Transformer who could hop up there in seconds? And weren't all the helicopters and planes getting shot down anyway? What was the helicopter guy supposed to do with it? Kind of a strange plan. But it all worked out.