Yes the later transformers feel surreal in how bad they are. Like your brain can’t even process it.

It weird going from a dumb 13 year old boy who liked Transformers 1 because of cool car, cool booba, cool explosions to an adult that watched that monstrosity. The first one is cringeworthy and bad in retrospect, but nothing even approaching the later ones. The awfulness increases exponentially, it gets more and more racist and weird and surreal. The humor is perplexing and the plot is incoherent and pacing gets weird and the CGI gets lazy. In retrospect it’s also pro-Iraq war imperialist propaganda and an American military jack-off session