From a G1 fan: Great effects and action; but marred with flaws

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2007)

I'll premise my review by citing that I "grew up" on the G1 Transformers, but tried to bury any expectations I had when going to see this movie. I wasn't expecting an intricate plot line or deep meaning - just a fun action movie.
Unfortunately, this is where Michael Bay failed: he tried to make this movie into too many things. The romantic part, fortunately, was realistic, light, and not overdone. What the movie could have done without was the extremely C-H-E-E-S-E-Y conversations between the Autobots about saving humanity, at the sacrifice of consistency to the plot, i.e. keeping the All-Spark out of the hands of the Decepticons to stop them from achieving insurmountable powers and threatening all organic life in the universe (not just the human species, which is only one of millions on our planet alone). And while I could bare most of the one-liners, some of them were unforgivable, like Jazz's mid-battle taunt to Megatron.