"Critics "forget what the goal of the movie was. The goal of the movie is to entertain and have fun," said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount, which is distributing "Transformers" for DreamWorks. "What the audience tells us is, `We couldn't be more entertained and having more fun.' They kind of roll their eyes at the critics and say, `You have no idea what you're talking about.'"

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If the movie are so bad as the critics have wrote, it wouldn't scored 200 million mark. You may say the sequel rides on the name of the franchise but why so many people ended up watching it few times ? Screw your both nuts for trying to be too big!