Another case of critics vs the average movie goer. I'm not Bay fan, but for once I felt he got the formula finally balanced. A reduction of childish attempts at humor, a more serious story, on screen character development of both human and robot characters, TIME to let the plot develop, good use of 3D and CGI, and good action both from humans and robots. Of all the Transformers movies, this is definitely the best for all the reasons it should be. A good sci-fi movie with characters that you can finally believe exist in the same world and far less annoying human actors. The movie is a right mix of comedy / humans and bot on bot action. If you are a fan of the Transformer series you will love all the nuggets and nods to the past. If you are a casual fan and only have seen the other three then you might not understand all the little sub plots.