Ok, as I'm the die hard Transformers fan on these boards, I will say it was ok. I saw it twice, & will be seeing it once more, cuz a friend I don't get to see often wants to see it saturday.
Anyways, everyone, should always keep in mind, this, just like anyother Transformer series, is NOT G1! The only bot, that you could really say, is like his G1 counterpart, is Prime. And you know, the "my bad" line in it, I thought was going to roll my eyes, but, the way he says it, & plus since they (SPOILERS)
studied human language, it's understandable why they might have different personalities, like, Jazz for instance, is an African American in G1 & the same goes here, except, this actually makes a little sense. So, they say things, that humans say.....though, I hated Jazz's first 2 sentences. Mainly the first sentence.
Pretty much, I look at this movie as Humans.......featuring some giant transforming robots called Transformers. Maybe like an introductory movie to this current TF's universe. And I will say it again, this is NOT G1.
As for Prime & Megs being bros. From what I understand, in this universe, they are. And TF's themselves are younger in this universe, then they are in G1 from what I can gather. There was too many humans(as that is the main complaint of the more recent TF cartoons), but, I'm not 100% sure it could be pulled off otherwise, atleast, for the first movie anyways. Hopefully the next one, will get more into the various personalities of the bots themselves, & I know Starscream will have a bigger role in the next one.....which, will include the real Soundwave(as some think, that Frenzy in this movie, was replacing Soundwave).
As for fembots, yes, there are fembots, well, atleast one we know of so far, that originally was going to be in the movie. And that would be Arcee. She was however, in the prequal comic, & has her own toy coming out, based on the movie design for her. As for them having sex, that would be a no. But, even in G1, why they are all the way they are, is never truly understood, it's all a mystery, other the fact that they were built originally by the Quintessons.......that is, before they ever had the ability to transform. They were just workers(Autobots) & warriors(Decepticons) that the Quints would sell to various warring nations for a profit, but they eventually evovled to have emotions. And obviously, somehow there became a distinction between male & female.
The stupidest things in the movie for me, were Bobby Bolivia & his "mammy". Bumblebee peeing on John, & the masturbation thing. And the mom just plain sucked. But, overall, I enjoyed the movie, if only to see TF's looking like they might in real life. Though, personally, I would've liked less detail, as it's hard to see what all was going on.......not to mention I like the more standard style of TF's that have pretty much stayed the same over the last 20 some years, which includes Beast Wars, as they still have a standar type of transformation style like G1. The ones that deviated a bit were Beast Machines, which was that last decent series(emphasis on decent) to come out. Though, I would like to see RiD again, as I remember enjoying it alot more then Armada, which I hated.
