The thing is, I'm not sure why it even matters. They could have just pasted in lines from the cartoon and made it work, since they spoke so little. And then it was random, "You have failed me again, Starscream." They haven't even seen each other in thousands of years. I guess that was the homage to the fact that there was tension between them in the cartoon? Who the fuck knows.
I agree with Tank's review, the Transformers were not developed at all. Bay's shaky cam made me feel like a epileptic watching Blair Witch. Add to that they all looked the same in robot mode, it was a huge cluster fuck at the end.
The movie was about the Transformers and there were basically no Transformers the first half the movie. Shia LaBeouf's character drove me nuts. He probably had 9,000 lines of dialogue rapid fire, and I still have no idea what he was talking about.
The other thing is the are supposed to be robots in disguise. Yet, why are they always trying to hide in robot mode? Can someone explain this to me?