SPOILER ALERT!!!

DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN "TRANSFORMERS" AND WISH TO REMAIN IGNORANT!!!

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Things to like about the new "Transformers" movie...

Bumblebee turns out to be a shameless romantic.

Ratchet is a good medic, but could be a trifle more tactful when using words like "pheromones" and "mating" with regards to teenage humans.

Prime manages to be entirely himself and yet at times a bit of a big clumsy ditz.

Why Jazz? Just, why? *sigh*

I don't remember Ironhide being that impatient with humans.

Remember when Unicron changed Megatron into that other guy? Megatron in this movie looked a lot like him.

Notable minor characters include: a hacker kid who really completely shatters the stereotype; a smarmy Sooper Sekrit Agent Guy who seriously is disgustingly full of himself; a Secretary of Defense actually worth the title; a hot Australian chick who of course figures it all out and all the men of course tell her to shut up.

Questions I'd like answered: Why was there a 1930's vintage shortwave transmitter set-up in the same room with a bunch of computers, and if all the power was out why did those computers even work? And I'm sorry, but you couldn't hook the computers up to that shortwave without several hours of work with a soldering iron and a hell of a lot of luck, if at all. And double I'm sorry, but the only one in that group who MIGHT have known Morse code was the Secretary of Defense. The rest of them were too young. Learning Morse is no longer required to get a ham operator's license and no one else uses it anymore. Nice idea, but really guys, the hacker kid would have had a much better time of it running a cable directly to a satellite dish and uplinking to a satellite.

Prime could have shown a bit more angst about all the humans getting trampled in the Big Fight, but I guess he was concentrating on the bigger picture.

Autobots hiding from nosy parents is the funniest thing you'll see all day. Maybe for many days to come.