Better than you'd think

Rating: 6/10 (4 July 2007)

We get some background which gives us a head-start on the plot with the Optimus voice-overs at the start of the film.
The action comes pretty early into the film and I'm pretty happy we get to see some of my favourite robots. Starscream (didn't he used to be an F-15?), Soundwave (who their calling Frenzy) and Bumblebee.
I liked the use of the "More than meets the eye" line twice and they actually DID use the Transform noise that we all know, love and grew up hearing in the 1980's.
Basically this is The Autobots trying to stop The Decepticons getting hold of a cube that can animate technology to allow them to create an army aligned to them.
The robots look brilliant and the original voice artist returned to voice Optimus so it was like the time had never passed.
I would have liked to have known more about the boys grandfather and his back-story when he discovered Megatron.
At least the ending was open enough to allow a sequel to be made. This wasn't really worth the wait as some of the battles were shot and cut too fast to make them watchable which seems to be a problem lots of current films are suffering from.
The look of the robots made it watchable and the plot wasn't bad.