 
CrimsonLine over at artsandfaith.com writes:
I saw it with some friends last night, and as an adult, channeling my inner eight-year-old, I liked it. Great robot action, cool military stuff, and some funny bits. About halfway through it stopped making sense, and a lot of the dialogue in the second half was incredibly clunky. But the bulk of it was big, loud, and fun. For me, as an adult.
But I watched it also through the lens of my five-year-old son, who LOVES Transformers, and is dying to see this movie. We’ve downloaded hundreds of pictures, seen every trailer, and he has many of the toys, having just had a birthday. And I came home sad that I can’t show him the movie, even fast-forwarding through bits, because there are just too many bits, and they pervade the film. From the constant use of the “s-word” to the non-stop horndog jokes, about masturbation, virginity, and sex in general, the loving shots of Megan Fox’s cleavage, and the way Michael Bay moves his camera around her midriff like she’s a shiny object that he wants us to long for, this film is wall-to-wall stuff I don’t want my son seeing. It was heartbreaking this morning when he asked me, “Is the Transformers Movie good for little boys, daddy?” No, son. It’s probably not even good for me.
It’s a pity. There’s a lot of fun stuff in there, and I like the message that there is no victory without sacrifice (even though it’s a message that is just a repeated line of dialogue rather than a deeply-embedded theme). But this movie’s view of women is not one that I want my son to imbibe.
Reprinted with permission.
Nevertheless, the Christian pop-culture magazine Infuze loves it.
Couldn’t have been stated better.
Although its fun, it was an extremely awkward moment when the three little boys in front of me all leaned over to their mother at one point in the film and said, “What’s masturbating, Mommy?!?” She just put her head in her hands.
They also said “boobs” alot.
Thanks, Phillip.
Actually, Jeff – the reviewer at Infuze does mention the concerns that I had with the movie. They are just buried under an avalanche of geek-itude. For him, the fact that the robots looked real and acted (more or less) in character with who they were in the cartoon overwhelmed every other consideration. He mentions the foul language, and sexual humor that he called totally inappropriate for kids, but those were in the last couple of paragraphs, after repeated rhetorical questions like, “who wouldn’t like this movie?” It’s a question of priority, I guess. Which is uppermost on your mind? For me, I wanted to see this movie with my son, and every few seconds there was an additional reason why I couldn’t. It felt like the movie was being taken away from CrimsonDash, one scene at a time. I resented it. Perhaps the guy at Infuze has no kids?
I am really stunned by the number of parents that are ignoring the PG-13 rating. This was clearly not going to be a family or kid movie from any number of angles. I certainly agree with the complaint about the objectification of the lead actress as a real problem, but PG-13 has always meant a film could be a bit racier.
Someone asked me if their young boys could see it. She said they were terrified of Monster House. I said this was not really appropriate for kids.
My mini-review has been “I would not call it a ‘good’ movie…but I was entertained for the full 2 and a half hours.”