Way, way better than the 1986 film!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2007)

I don't even remember most of that piece of drek after my favorite character brought the scrapheap! This is super memorable: I'm going to ask for this video if it's out by Christmas.
First of all I'm going to talk about Prime in this film. Defintantly the good: George Clooney (one of the choices for his voice)? I don't think so! Reason number 1 I wanted to see this film is being a fan gal smitten by Prime's original voice since 84. Thank you Mr. Bay; I was considering boycotting it if they had picked anyone else. Cullen conveys such charm and conviction. Like a few people have said the first moment he meets Sam was one of this movie's most moving scenes. Had to hold back tears. Now the bad: Could live with the new truck design, flames and all but why, why, why the designers have to give him such a butt ugly mouth? I was hoping that Megatron would pummel it and he would've had to hide behind the face mask permanently.
Bumblebee the good: Loved his noble character, the cryptic way he was revealed in the first portion and was totally was enthralled by his devotion to Sam and Mikela, too in a lesser degree. The bad: beautiful as a Camaro--Butt ugly face when he transformed. Yuck! And thank you, Mr. Bay for improving that speech thing near the end, I found his "problem" highly annoying in some places as I couldn't hear him clearly.
The remaining Autobots did have more development than I anticipated while the Decepticons save Megatron and the sneaky, vicious Frenzy have no development other than being destructive. I couldn't discern which of them attacked the base. And Starscream just needed to get way more treacherous with Megatron (the later is a monster incarnate in this film); even the one scene where they did interact with each other for me was not enough. In fact it was the thing that irked me the most about this film which makes me give it a 9. Put that in the sequel please, Mr. Bay if you read this, I am begging you.
I found Sam Mikela thing flat-out annoying in its predictably but it was made up by the writers making it integral to the plot and the true chemistry and acting of these principals. And I found Mikela's character way more interesting than providing cheesecake to the males in the audience.
Now last but not least the action--all of it was off the chart but my absolute faves was Prime and (sorry I can't recall the Decipticon's name) fighting on the highway and of course the too brief battle of Prime and Megatron where I heard one of my favorite OP catchphrases: "It's just you and me, Megatron."
Mr. Bay could you please bring on the sequel early, expand on all the Decepticons, not have Prime or too many Autobots buying the scrapheap and keep the voice of Prime you've got.