The blond was clearly australian. Not British. If you can't tell the difference, go back to watching Frasier and believing that's convincingly foreign. I also hate people who comment on countries/cultures they've never visited let alone experienced. LEAVE THE DAMN COUNTRY, SEE THERE IS A DIFFERENT WORLD BEYOND IT YOU *%$&S!! But that's unrelated

Tell your friend that he needs to relax. He seems incredibly anal about details that don't have anything to do with whats important - It's the new Transformers movie. Not the Cartoon.

Trying to judge it as you would the cartoon is like going to see Bond and saying 'You know, we probably don't need these explosions and gunshots. They're anti-thesis to the spy-plot, seeing how he's meant to be undercover'. You don't do that. Because you aren't going for the plot. You're going for the Bond Moments and the awesome Action. We had just that - Transformer Moments, and awesome Action.

Anyone who didn't wibble (this is a word) when they heard Optimus Prime speaking over that score at the beginning shouldn't have watched the movie at all. Let alone commented on it.

Yhorian

Edit - I thought I'd add, much of what he accuses the Movie being guilty of, the Cartoon was also guilty of. Making many of his arguments pretty pointless. If he believes they didn't 'improve' upon it, then that's just bollox. It remained true to Transformers, thats why it kicked ass.