Awaiting the real 'Transformers the movie'

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2007)

So I went along last night to see this film. Incidentally, if you can get to see a DLP screening of it, do, the digital projection is awesome.
So, I thought the acting was OK, the plot mediocre, but the effects beyond anything I have ever seen.
However, as a kid who grew up obsessed with transformers, and would probably be able (I know, I don't need you to tell me how sad I am) to recite the lines of the 1986 movie from heart I've seen it so often, I was disappointed at the god-awful plot and this is the reason for my OK-kinda good score.
There is light at the end of the tunnel however.
I understand that most people going to see this movie now would not be as familiar with the transformers as I am, and so launching them into the plot of the original movie would be far too complex and confuse too many people.
I have a theory, or rather a theory borne on a wish. I am hoping, taking a long view of this, that these transformers movies will end up being a trilogy, with the last movie being the re-make that I would so love to see.
The best thing about this theory is that the plot and some of the dialogue is already written, you just need to update it, take out the original jokes and replace them, and (sadly - I don't want to say this) replace the 80's cock-rock soundtrack with whatever today's equivalent is, and you've got yourself one fine movie.
So if it happens - you heard it here first! O.H