One of the better remakes.

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2007)

Being 35 years old, I spent many of hours with my eyes planted on the cartoon series. Before going to see this movie I was VERY worried that this was going to be another blown opportunity at making a movie based on one of my childhood shows, of which there are many horrible examples! I'm not easy to please.
First of all, one must realize that there will ALWAYS be some discrepancies between the old shows and a new movie. Also we must remember that no one is going to make a movie unless there is a chance at making money. You just cannot judge a movie if you're determined to nitpick before you view it. A lot of the negativity is coming from people that expect perfection and go into a movie looking for reasons to be dissatisfied.
People have complained about everything from the high velocity twisting when transforming to the paint jobs. I mean c'mon, get over it! It's a modern interpretation of the old show, ITS NOT THE CARTOON SERIES.
Overall I thought the movie was great. It was packed with high action graphics and humor. The first battle scene was awesome! The cameras were set a bit too close on some scenes, either to put the images more in your face or to hide imperfections. The characters (robot) personalities were not entirely true to the old show but extremely close. The heroic and self sacrificing nature of autobots was left intact as well as the dark nature of the decepticons. A few of them got wasted but remember this is Transformers, anyone can come back, and the movie definitely left room for the future.
I left feeling extremely pleased with the movie. To see it in this modern form was a real pleasure. I can confidently say that Hollywood managed to avoid crushing another one of my childhood joys. It is one of the best movie remakes I've seen and I'm glad they did it. I look forward to taking my kids to see it so they can share in the same story that I loved as a kid.
Go see it! At the very least, it's worth the ticket price.