Another thing wrong with Michael Bay's version

It lacks a giant planet-destroying robot voiced by Orson Welles:

Less Than Meets The Eye

While visually stunning, the Transformers film sadly also had the crappy elements that I feared it would have from having Michael Bay in the directors chair. (Wooden dialogue, I'm looking at you.) Perhaps nostalgia has raised my standards, I mean at its core this was a cartoon about cars that turned into robots that was essentially a marketing vehicle for mass-produced toys.

I suppose the cynic (who, me?) will say that Transformers has grown up with its audience in that it is now an advertising vehicle for Chevrolet instead of Hasbro.

Edit: For some reason Blogger won't let me title this post. Is anyone else dealing with this?

Edit the Second: Okay, fixed it.

I got nothin'

Once again, I turn to YouTube to provide content:

Transformers

I want this film to be good, not Oscar good, but entertaining summer fun really good. I want it to be at least good enough that I can justify owning the DVD. That said, I know - not fear - but know that Michael Bay will mess it up. All I wanted from Pearl Harbor was to watch planes attacking ships and vice-versa, but no, he couldn't even do that right. I had to endure two hours of the worst, most leaden love story ever in order to get to it. It made the action scenes hardly worthwhile.

Anyway, here's the new trailer, so that you can hope, along with me, that this isn't completely terrible. I hope Michael Bay realizes that these are precious childhood memories he's playing with here.