What is unexpected is that the handling of the re-energised (was there a re-energoned pun in the last review?) Transformers has eschewed the movies ham fisted-ness, as well as links to 80s cross-dressing metal bands and the overall desire to reinvent. That Transformers has become such a blockbuster property is in some ways not hugely unexpected the concepts are epic in their scope and the character profiles are timeless. Helped re-popularise awesome 80s action figures? Enter s’il vous plait. Armageddon? Nope, physicists proved that it wouldn’t work. A few decades from now, when MIchael Bay is standing in front of the pearly gates, he might be asked what he did that makes him worth saving.
