Cutting right to the chase, I did not enjoy this movie, not one bit, and here's why
First of all, this movie isn't a transformers movie at all. Nope. Bad video game level CGI complete with very generic robotic voicing, and practically no action scenes. Judging on the transformer movie scale, this movie would earn a solid 2 stars 3 stars max.
However, just because this movie wasn't a good transformers movie, doesn't necessarily mean that it's a bad movie in general. This movie had everything that made it a good movie. It had a proper storyline, proper characters, and most importantly a proper plot. So judging on that scale, this movie would earn maybe 4.5 stars.
*May contain Spoilers*
The movie began alright; a good old fight on Cybertron. Though the CGI bothered me a bit, and the decepticon voice acting also was a big change, I was able to sit through it, not immediately putting the movie away for these new changes. Everything seemed fine, as Bumblebee crash landed on earth, and met some humans. Then the human character was introduced, which changed everything. From that moment on, it was all about the human character. The human was the protagonist, EVEN THOUGH, the movie is called Bumblebee, and started off with Bumblebee. Bumblebee had a VERY different change of character from the "bayformers" series, which though it bugged me, it didn't make the movie itself bad. The problem was, Bumblebee simply wasn't a character at all. He was more like a "pet" or something similar, and reminded me much of E.T. and the Iron Giant. The decepticons again, changed drastically. Instead of being evil, and destroying the humans (like Blackout did to that military base in the first movie). The decepticons pretended to play along, and had much more character to them. Too much character. And even in the end. There wasn't even a big fight scene. Bumblebee got knocked out, and it was the humans doing everything, until Bumblebee got back up and killed the two decepticons.
The real problem with this movie is that it simply is not a transformers movie at all. I guarantee you, if we change the design of the transformers, and a few names, we can make a completely new movie that has nothing to do with transformers at all. This movie, is essentially a robotic version of E.T. , or even an alternate version of the Iron Giant. It is in fact not a transformers movie. The only reason I'm giving it a good rating is because the movie by itself was not bad, not because I enjoyed the movie. If you are an action fan of any kind, do not watch. However if you are looking to watch a nicely paced family movie, give it a try. Honestly Transformers were better off with Michael Bay