In the middle w/this one...

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2007)

Like many other reviewers here, I am a Gen1 Transformers kid...Saw the original movie back in 1986 as well...I normally do not go to the movies, but the inner child in me had to see Transformers if nothing else for the rest of the year...
Loves: - AUTOBOTS!!! When the Autobots first came into the movie, I regressed about 20 years in age and squealed like a little girl! I also loved that they had the original voice actor play Optimus Prime...I loved that he was just as noble as in the cartoon. Bumblebee was just too cute also! I loved how he used music to communicate with others when he was unable to speak...Ratchet's character reminds me a lot of myself, but you wouldn't know how awesome these characters were because they had very little screen time.

The special effects and action scenes were out of this world. I must say I was impressed.

Shia Leboeuf did pretty well with his script...But Josh Duhamel's character...made of win. Maybe it's the Soldier's Angel in me, but I was pretty much hoping he would get home to see his daughter.

All hail Megatron! He had only a few minutes of screen time, but he is still so deliciously evil...He scared the mess out of me as a kid and he looks much scarier now. I liked the apocalyptic background music during the defrost scene...It was pretty appropriate.

Dislikes: - Did not like that they made Bumblebee a Camaro instead of a VW Beetle...And that many of the Transformers didn't take on the disguises they had in the cartoon. (Megatron was missing his cannon and to my memory, he converted into a gun in the cartoon, not an airplane) Overall, the movie was felt like a 2 1/2 hr GMC commercial. Dude, my love for Transformers is never gonna get me to buy a American car because they suck...DEAL! - The POC (people of color) characters were a bit over the top w/the stereotypes...And the women characters lacked depth.

Too many cheesy one-liners and sophomoric crude jokes...The hiding in the house scene should have been edited out altogether.

Way too much focus on the humans, not enough Transformer background story or dialog...I came to see giant alien robots kick you-know-what and take names, not see some teenage kids fall in love on screen...

The way Megatron was destroyed was stupid. I assume that they did this b/c he will be back for part 2.

I give it a 7 out of 10...I see that lot of fellow G1 kids on here really hated the film and I agree that it has many flaws. Yet I really felt nostalgic watching the film, so I didn't feel like my experience was totally ruined.