Missing nostalgia of what we want

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2009)

So, I just finished watching the movie. It was up and down for my take. First, what the hell was all the ridiculousness of Sam's mom visiting him in college. Please, let's bring a marijuana reference to make us laugh. Come on, that was as low brow as it gets. Also, not to break up the fact that the effects are amazing, but it is extremely hard to tell who is who in this movie! I mean, give me more colors and an easy way to decipher whether these guys are Autobots or Decepticons. Say their names for God sake!!! I almost, nay, I do miss the 1986 movie where at least I knew who I was seeing and could root for or hate against the robots because I knew who they were. Also, what the hell happened to Devastator??? I thought I heard he was in this movie but failed to see him or any constructagons at all. Michael Bay, you do an amazing job with action and special effects so bravo. However, as a fan and as most people watching should be fans, it lacks on some basic levels. First, don't introduce ridiculous characters (the twins) who were a complete social shall I say rip-off of a genre which didn't need to even be there?? I'd rather take two robots who were just robots than to offend a race or ethnicity by what you did. Now, I'll just rant on what I thought could have been better. Megan Fox....you are dumb. She really did absolutely nothing and did not even need to be in this movie. Sam, (nitpicking now), could have been called Spike to start with since we all remember Spike from the original series but have no clue where Sam came from. Bumblebee...became a badass robot?? Should be smaller and able to freaking TALK!! Where are the robots we remember? Jazz, Hound, Sideswipe? At least you mentioned Ironhide. Did Shockwave just sit in outer space?? What the hell was that for? Yes, we saw Prowler, but no Soundwave? He was the bomb in the series. Again, and I can't stress this enough, there should be more mention to who we're seeing and more colors to represent who we see. Most decpticons were plain silver (gray metal) and we had no clue who they were showing. I think Michael Bay needs to sit down and actually watch a whole series to get what the audience would like to see. The premise and plot was good for the movie, but it was all over the place with random characters, weird enemies we didn't recognize, and robots who came and left and were not heard from again. I absolutely LOVED the original transformer movie because it brought in all the characters from the original series, gave us a good plot and scenario of what was going on, and brought in new characters and events that we could follow and enjoy. There will be a third movie, yes, I know. I already think that it will be another shoot off of Shia and Megan Fox and some plot dealing with just Megatron and Optimus Prime. Ho hum. If you really want to draw everyone in, bring in characters we all know, a LOT of them. Bring in the Dinobots! Bring in the bots that transform into the Huge bots such as DEVASTATOR. And please,please, make the transforming 'sound' when they transform. That was the standard and I actually liked when I heard that. Yes, you brought in a lot of action, suspense, and thrilling things to see. BUT, you left out what a lot of us miss, which is having the things we came to see in the first place! Bring us more characters we know and love, mention their names, even make the characters more cartoony, and not so machine-like. I like my polygons to be quick to recognize if they are a truck, car, or plane. Not take 3 minutes to see if they transform into a radio. All I'm leaving this with is I feel the fans of Transformers want what we love, not what Michael Bay thinks is the 'hip' kind of robots. Remember what made this popular is what will continue to make it popular. Autobots! Roll out!