01. I suspect that most people will either totally love or completely hate this movie. That said, I think the people who would probably hate it won’t end up seeing it, so it will all work out.
02. This is amongst the most completely ridiculous movies I’ve seen in a long time and I’m saying this after suspending my disbelief about robotic aliens invading Earth.
03. This movie brings the funny in spades, omg. For some reason I was under the impression it was going to be like Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (maybe the trailer made me think this? I can’t remember), but it was just absolutely hysterical and not oppressingly serious.
04. Transformers is what Snakes on a Plane was (or could have been, depending on your perspective), only better. It takes a premise that is so freaking ridiculous and completely inane, acknowledges said ridiculousness and inaneness, and then proceeds along by making sure everything has an undercurrent of irony so that you know that they know this is amongst the stupidest movie ideas known to man but dagnabbit they’re going to have fun with it anyway.
05. I remember reading a review of LOTR ages ago about how Gollum is the first completely CGI character that actually allows the audience to feel the same sort of empathy towards him as they would towards regular human characters. Surprisingly, Transformers sort of manages the same thing, obviously not on the same level (not even close), but you kind of feel a lot of sympathy towards the Autobots. The whole scene where they’re at Sam’s house while he’s looking for the glasses (a.k.a. really stupid plot device) was absolutely killer. And when the Sector 7 guys ordered Bumblebee to be all frozen up and locked down? TRAGIC. 
06. Loved the air freshener in Sam’s car that read “BEE-OTCH”. LKHSALKDJL:KJAS:LDJK NICE.
07. So, they actually played the reels out of order at our screening. No, really. There was this one part where a scene had ended and then they showed a brief shot of Sam’s house before cutting to something else entirely and we were like “Okay, that was really weird, but whatever.” Then later on Sam ran into Mikaela, who starts acting as if she had never seen him before, despite them having driven around together the night previous. This struck us as odd, but we chalked it up to her being completely cracked out or something. Then the two of them are getting arrested and they cut back to the scene where they’re in the tunnel and the car has abandoned them, except now the car has come back with a slick new paint job and they’re playing that song from Kill Bill Vol. 1 when Lucy Liu and her posse first arrive. At this point we’re like “Okay, definitely the wrong reel.” The dude beside me got up to go complain but they didn’t actually end up doing a thing about it. Suffice it to say, it actually didn’t impact our enjoyment or understanding of the movie, so interpret that as you will. Plus we got free tickets afterwards for our trouble, so win-win-win.
08. John Turturro was CLASSIC in this. And a welcome surprise, being that I had no idea he was in this.
09. Jon Voight? Okay.
10. All of the robots spoke in really cheesy, epic prose but I like to think it was purposely cheesy as opposed to just bad writing.
11. Oh, Michael Bay, I have renewed faith in you after The Island destroyed it. You’re still not the greatest filmmaker in the world and you’re kind of a hit-or-miss kind of guy, but I’ll give you another chance. Plus, you are a king of composition and everything you frame looks absolutely beautiful.
12. HAHAHA OMG I JUST IMDB-ED IT AND APPARENTLY HUGO WEAVING DID THE VOICE FOR MEGATRON!!! =O
13. Speaking of Megatron, I loved how when he first saw Optimus Prime again he was all “PRIME!” in this “How lovely to see you again, I will destroy you!” kind of tone. He also got the best/worst line in the entire film:
Optimus Prime: It’s just you and me, Megatron.
Megatron: No, it’s just me, Prime!
KLASDLKJASDLKJLK.
14. I half expected that they would have had some lame punk band cover the Transformers theme song for the closing credits, but they didn’t.
15. THE BEST FOR LAST: WOW, SHIA LABEOUF IS A CUTIE. No, really, he killed me in this. Besides being generally awesome, he’s actually a good actor. Actually, I really enjoyed him in Bobby last year. Maybe I should see Disturbia. But no, really, I would totally have ten thousand of his babies if he wasn’t, you know, four years younger than me and it didn’t make me feel weird to say that.