Good, but not THAT good...

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2007)

First of all, let me say that all in all: I liked this movie. However, I was hoping it would link in a bit better with the original: The characters were updated for this movie - that is OK, and expected. But some were SO updated, you could not quite recognize them from the original TV show. Especially the Decepticons were a bit difficult to keep apart, as they were quite similar when transformed into robots.
The voices were not kept close enough to the original. Megatron and Starscream had very distinctive voices in the TV series, but they were completely different in the movie. Kudos for keeping Optimus Primes voice like the original.
Optimus Prime was wise and tactful in the TV series, but in the movie he at times are quite clumsy - for instance in the scene in Sams back garden. I found that rather disrespectful...
Finally I was waiting the whole movie for Megatron to transform into the mighty gun - but he never did! All in all - this was always going to be a movie for the old Transformers fans of the 80-ies. It was never going to be realistic, so why strive to make it more realistic than the original? I wanted to see old Transformers revived. I did not want to see what the Transformers would look like if they were invented today...
Still a good movie, though...