<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Thanks for saving me $20-30 when the DVD comes out<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />It's already out. My brother-in-law bought a copy and loaned it to us so we could watch it. My daughter loved it. It actually wasn't as bad as I was fearing, and it was still fun. There were some annoying bits. I got over the conversion of Bumblebee into a Camaro (even though it made his name kinda silly). Making Starscream into a Raptor made sense -- the only reason so many Decepticons were F-15s was really just so they could churn out more toys with the same dies. Transformers always really was a vehicle for the toys more than anything else.<br /><br />One major improvement was Megatron. Instead of turning into a laughably small handgun, he turns into an alien artillery piece, which makes a lot more sense from the perspective of conservation of mass.<br /><br />The one bit I can't forgive, though, is the bit where NASA mission controllers in what looks like the Shuttle MCC observe "NASA's Beagle 2" (which looks exactly like a MER) being destroyed by a Decepticon, from a third-person-omnipotent POV rather than from a camera on the actual lander. There was so much factually wrong with that scene that I just couldn't help but burst out giggling. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>