If you're looking for a home theatre experience that's state-of-the-art, but won't tax the little grey cells excessively, Paramount Home Video has just the new titles for you: Transformers! I'm usually up for suspending my disbelief when it comes to a good yarn, whether sci-fi, fantasy or whatever, but I must say the Transformers movies really, really challenge that. It isn't just that the screenplays of the sequels I've seen are incoherent, but I find the whole concept of a race of giant living robots that can change into a variety of cars, trucks, aircraft and the like kind of, well, silly. But if you can get past that, like I got past it in the first movie, you're in for a typically Michael Bay action shoot 'em up. Paramount is releasing four of the five Transformers movies on 4K disc, with HDR, in Canada - though a shortage of review samples led to them sending only the second and fourth outings in the profitable franchise: Revenge of the Fallen and Age of Extinction. And as much as I enjoyed the 4K versions for their excellent audio and video, I was more than ready to stop watching after sitting through this pair and grateful that I'd dodged a bullet by not having to watch the others as well.

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