Wanted to Love it...but only liked it

Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2011)

To start with let me just say that as a kid I thought Transformers were the best thing in the world. I used to watch the original series cartoons all the time on TV, VHS! and I thought the original movie was amazing, still do. The 3D in this movie is amazing. It seems to be getting better and better with each new movie being released. The soundtrack for Transformers DOTM is not as good as the first or second Transformers movies in my opinion. The title track by Linkin Park seems quite tame by comparison. Some things that annoyed me about this movie are as follows :- Optimus Prime, apart from when he gets real mad and easily kills a load of Decepticons is pretty pathetic in this movie. There are parts when he's grovelling at the feet of Sentinel Prime which were just plain stupid. This would never have happened in the original animated series. The film makers in their wisdom decided to rename Wheeljack to Que and he is easily the most annoying thing in the entire movie for me. Personally I was glad when he got offed! Along the same lines with Mirage who is now called Dino. I don't know what they were thinking when they changed these but as a huge fan of the originals I wasn't impressed at all. As for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley she was OK. Definitely no worse an actor than Megan Fox. Overall the movie didn't suck but I thought it could have been much better. I want them to make a fourth one and even a fifth one in the hope that they eventually get it right and do justice to my expectations.