
LaBeouf does a decent enough job portraying Witwicky as a kid who’s in way over his head, though many will find his antics to be more annoying than endearing.


Although Sam may be the main character, he’s a pretty passive protagonist, with important plot points involving him only by happenstance. The main character of the film, Sam, is portrayed by Shia LaBeouf, acting more akin to his role in Even Stevens than the slightly-unhinged LaBeouf himself. As both the heroic Autobots and villainous Decepticons search for the AllSpark, they soon discover that the Transformers have played a much larger role in shaping the modern world than ever imagined.

Their quest ultimately intertwines their fates with a teenage boy named Sam Witwicky, who is on the cusp of purchasing his first car. Transformers, the aptly-named first movie in the franchise, revolves around the robots in disguise making their way to Earth to recover the AllSpark, a relic that was crucial to the creation of their planet.
