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Action, Visual Effects, 'Transformers' sounds like a Michael Bay pic

THE "Transformers" concept is simple: In the blink of an eye, some innocuous thing a car, for instance morphs into an alien-whupping killing machine.Director Michael Bay has undergone his own transformation, and while it's hardly as dramatic as what happens in his new movie, his turnabout does suggest that he is about to have a much sunnier summer than his last time around.When Bay was previously putting the finishing touches on a summer movie, he wasn't having that grand a time. The year was 2005 and the movie was "The Island." Bay was battling with DreamWorks over the movie's advertising campaign, but the ads were only a part of the problem. Moviegoers didn't seem to know what the movie's title meant (there's no island in "The Island") and the $125-million anti-utopian drama was opening on the heels of three box-office hits: "Wedding Crashers," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Fantastic Four."More...