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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3634687" data-attributes="member: 4090">I had the same question, but it all kind of came back to a lack of focus on the Autobots and Decepticons themselves in lieu of the humans. Frankly, given the time frame involved, I don't know why Starscream was even bothering with Megatron anyway. The Starscream from the cartoon would have been happy to have him out of the way for so long.Anyway, just saw the movie myself. I enjoyed it, but I agree with the suggestions that the movie was less Transformers and more People Reacting to Giant Robot Invasion. Not bad in and of itself, but not quite the movie I was hoping for. I think- while generally well done, there were enough extraneous &quot;people bits&quot; and characters that could have easily been chopped in order to give the &quot;robot bits&quot; more emphasis. In particular, the fact that I couldn't identify so many of the robots visually when they weren't in vehicle form (especially in the final battle sequences) grated. As a fan of the cartoon, I knew enough about the Transformer characters to enjoy them and know their relationships, but a newcomer with no knowledge wouldn't be able to do so, I'd think. Even still, there were a few (Decepticons, notably) that I couldn't place.Optimus and Bumblebee were both well done and fleshed out somewhat, but the others were just one-dimensional. Even Megatron didn't really get enough time or space to generate any sort of real feeling of who and what he was. We hear people talking about him a bit, and then he finally shows up and we're supposed to somehow get a sense of his majesty but it fell flat on that end.Anyway, it was good. Not great, but good.BTW, what's up with all the Transformers maxing out their ranks in Tumble?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 3634687, member: 4090"] I had the same question, but it all kind of came back to a lack of focus on the Autobots and Decepticons themselves in lieu of the humans. Frankly, given the time frame involved, I don't know why Starscream was even bothering with Megatron anyway. The Starscream from the cartoon would have been happy to have him out of the way for so long. Anyway, just saw the movie myself. I enjoyed it, but I agree with the suggestions that the movie was less Transformers and more People Reacting to Giant Robot Invasion. Not bad in and of itself, but not quite the movie I was hoping for. I think- while generally well done, there were enough extraneous "people bits" and characters that could have easily been chopped in order to give the "robot bits" more emphasis. In particular, the fact that I couldn't identify so many of the robots visually when they weren't in vehicle form (especially in the final battle sequences) grated. As a fan of the cartoon, I knew enough about the Transformer characters to enjoy them and know their relationships, but a newcomer with no knowledge wouldn't be able to do so, I'd think. Even still, there were a few (Decepticons, notably) that I couldn't place. Optimus and Bumblebee were both well done and fleshed out somewhat, but the others were just one-dimensional. Even Megatron didn't really get enough time or space to generate any sort of real feeling of who and what he was. We hear people talking about him a bit, and then he finally shows up and we're supposed to somehow get a sense of his majesty but it fell flat on that end. Anyway, it was good. Not great, but good. BTW, what's up with all the Transformers maxing out their ranks in Tumble? [/QUOTE]

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