20 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Transformers Franchise

4. The Plots Aren't Worth Listening To

If you can coherently recount the plots of any of the Transformers movies, congratulations: you've been paying way too much attention. For the most part, the exposition-heavy plots of these movies are so forgettable and insistent on slippery logic that it's difficult to separate them from one another, as they all basically boil down to "the big bad robots want to kill Optimus and any humans who get in the way." Though Dark of the Moon does earn a few brownie points for using the Space Race to give its story some real-world context, the other three plots are virtually indistinguishable from one another, which given how much time Bay and co. devote to verbose dialogues about Megatron, the Spark, Cybertron and so on, is a pretty huge failure of intention. The movies might have more interesting narratives if they didn't try to over-explain themselves and instead kept it to well-told basics.