Transformers...

...has finally entered my life again big time. While i only remember bits and pieces from the age old animated series when my age was only in single figures, the movie was something that was a must see for me, and a must see for a lot of people in my generation.

Good stuff about the movie: As always, with all sci-fi / mecha / hi-tech movies the CGI was awesome. Portrayal of our favourite Autobots and the much loved and hated Decepticons was fairly well done. There was some comic relief in Ironhide wanting to show off his cannons to Sam Witwicky, and the monkey like Decepticon in Frenzy.

Bad stuff about the movie: Storywise, they could have focussed a little more on the robots themselves, and not waste time on the budding relationship between Sam and whatshername. Some others say there was not enough attention paid to all the small little things that happened in the animated TV series. I've heard die hard fans ask "why didn't the other part of Prime's 18 wheeler spontaneously drop out of the sky when he transformed into the truck...?" and another said "Megatron should have transformed into a gun..." To me they aren't all that important in this movie. What I really felt was that while the CGI was great, the cinematography could have been better. Too often in the movie what we find is that the "camera" is too close up, and in some cases, so close in that while either Autobot or Decepticon transfroms, you see their robotic crotch... it's not on...seriously.