Amazingly disappointed at so many of the other reviews

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2009)

Ten. Why? Because the first movies I can remember watching were one of Benji movies and the animated Transformers movie.
I mean, c'mon, didn't anyone catch the "Sharkticon" in the kitchen scene? Wheelie was just as annoying as that other little Tardobot in the animated movie...um...name anyone?.... ^^ ANYWAY. Yes. There was way too much CG. Think about it. Way too much CG? Since when has a movie been able to even deliver such an enormous amount of CG? But people say it's dimming. Well, anyone and everyone is right in that their opinion is the truth to them.
For me (a dim individual), it is everything the animated movie would have been, if the animated movie wasn't just cell drawings. Bay even brought in references to energon as species sustaining. And, since a few have problems with megatron having a master, um, what about Galvatron?....Unicron?.....Compare the first and second movie and obviously, Bay watched the animated movie and PAID ATTENTION before making the second one. Humbling in the least, I didn't know his ego and his body could fit in one room at the same time.
I must admit, I was sorely disappointed with Soundwave (who used to rock) and Devastator (and his "balls")...Thank god Bay didn't bring in the Dinobots.
K, before I digress too much, it's Transformers. It's supposed to be just a bunch of robots fighting robots and blowing robots up. WATCH THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF THE ANIMATED MOVIE AND LOOK FOR AN EXPLANATION. It makes sense how? Of course it doesn't, but it rocks.
Somewhere along the way, I got "too old" for Beast Wars...but I must say, this movie is ALMOST the way it should be....for me anyway. Anyone that remembers the animated movie, will love this. Um...Except for the Negrobots <----Stereotypical nightmare times deux.
All in all, flaws and all, this is a movie that will be watched by children for a long time with the same magic that the animated movie had for me for almost 3 decades.