A smashing hit

Noisy blockbuster will be fun for those who like robots | Sam Thielman

DreamWorks Pictures

There is a kind of person who enjoys watching large robots hit each other. I am that kind of person. If you are not that kind of person, you will want to avoid the new Transformers film. But if you and I are kindred spirits, you too may get a kick out of this noisy blockbuster—though Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is barely visible under a dog pile of furious critics.

Mind you, it has problems: Director Michael Bay has filled the movie with shamelessly lurid shots of his heroine Mikaela (Megan Fox), and he's included an absurdly offensive comedy team of robots with great big ears, gold teeth, and bug eyes, presumably to illustrate that there are black people on Cybertron, too. Our own planet's black people are likely to be less amused by their antics than Bay appears to have been.