This movie (which is a reboot) was great (not perfect) but their was so much charchter. G1 was not perfect (shock and Horror) but the charchters were memorable. With the Micheal bay movies, every charchter seemed exactly the same, or very unmemorable, with the exception of megatron, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead. They were either carbon cut outs or were dead before anything could be done with them so you find that really don't care. The humans in the Micheal Bay movies are also kind of pointless and I find them to be a distraction and I feel like there time could be taken by more transformers. In this movie though, the characters feel like they mix with the transformers well and pair up to make a better movie rather then an two separate movies. Charlie is a great charchter and I found that I cared about her rather than kind of having to deal with her being their. Over all this movie speaks of a bright future for the transformers movies of the future.