Failed to meet my expectations

Rating: 4/10 (28 July 2007)

As Transformers is relatively new in the cinema, I will get straight to the point about Transformers. I will not give any spoilers, as it unfair on those who have not seen it yet.
The special effects in the movie are truly amazing and on this front must be praised highly. Bringing the Robots to life from the hits 80's animation is a brilliant site to observe. Their are noticeable faults with designs of the robots and camera work, which is unwatchable at times. The movie is meant to specially appeal to the generation who were raised within the decade. This though is very questionable following a full viewing of the movie.
The new ideas and concepts executed in the movie are little baffling and reference to technology related to the animated series appears to be scarce for example energon cubes, telecom1 and so on. Their is only a brief mention of cyperton, the distinct planet the robots hailed from. Instead huge emphasis is directed on the moderns gimmicks such as mobile phones, computers and internet rather than the technology that we have been accustomed in the cartoon if you get what I mean.
The Transformers make only brief appearances in the movie, with the human characters surpassing the length of time against the transformers.Instead we pay our money just to see the human world, rather than the robot world which transformers is about. For example high school life, Spike's parent obsession with their lawn and excessive levels of military and FBI operations. All these scenes are totally unnnecessary and would of condensed the movie to 90mins, rather than an epic 2 and half hours of useless material.
The characterisation of the movie is totally bland. None of human characters had much emotion and humour at all. The robots hardly exhibited much personality at all, with the Deceptiocons being portrayed as violence and destructive. For example Megratron hardly had any personality and the ruthless streak he exhibits in the cartoons. The relentless rivalry between Megratron and Starscream is non-existence. Optimus Prime to me, is by far the strongest character in the movie, with a component of heroism's. The dialogue is very weak in the movie.
Overall, the movie would been destined a great science fiction movie. I felt it has real potential to be a great movie. Michaeal Bay and the script writers mess it up completely with too much gimmicks , unnecessary scenes andpolitics. The overwhelming hype movie received failed to live to its expectations. I ended up a gloomy and disappointed audience following a weak showing of the movie. The summer promised some great movies, but Transformers though by a long margin fails to fit into this category. I feel betrayed of what I have seen as it does not fail I am watching a cartoon of Transformers.
If a sequel is on the pipeline, than drastic improvements needs to be made and needs to tie much as possible with the original cartoon without too much emphasis on humans and more on robots and their personality. T