[Auzuigcx]

It certainly had its flaws, those you mentioned were probably the worst offenders, but it didn't spoil me really enjoying it. I don't feel the trailers were miss leading, I mean it's giant robots fighting ... pretty much what it says on the tin. The humour was a bit hit and miss, sometimes going a bit too low brow to really be entertaining but I felt the human characters did a slightly better job this time around ... and I did crack a smile more then once at the silly jokes

I also felt the story for the Autobots and Decepticons was more fleshed out and enjoyable, with some great performances all around naturally ^^ There also seemed to be less ridiculous plot devices in this movie, although not completely absent. Making the film more dark would have been appreciated by the older audiences I think but then this is a kids film ...

Some spoilers: Going into the film I really thought that they were going to kill Optimus, but I thought that they would wait until the next film to resurrect him. Killing him and resurrecting him within the same film meant he disappeared from the film too soon leaving only a B team of Autobots to carry the film (bar Bumbleebee, love Bumbleebee). That I feel was a mistake but was probably seen as a safer move ... keeping him out and allowing the Decepticons and the Fallen to get a win (not blow up the Sun mind you) would have cast a nice dark overtone and evened the score. I still feel though that the film more then lives up to the original ... End Spoilers

Slowing down the action would work great for the larger robots, I mean Prime isn't exactly the most agile in the old cartoons (well, none of them are to be fair), he wins through sheer force and size yet in the live actions movies he's a rather nimble chap. It would be nice to be able to savour the effects but if would also take away from the spectacle to some extent (random gaming thought i.e. going down Quake 3 speed to CS might work).