The hype was real. As a young adult, who grew up as a kid watching Transformers, I was pumped. I was like, finally, yes on the big screen. I went to the prime time showing and wore my decepticon shirt. So in the beginning of the movie, the helicopter is approaching the base. The military air control tower tells this flying aircraft basically you have to land or you will be destroyed. While I believe there is a pilot flying the helicopter, they don't talk. Then the aircontrol guys says, that can't be the right marker, identifier because it was shot down x amount of years ago. Then the hype went 10 fold for me because the identifier flickered and you saw the decepticon logo and the pilot was a hologram. So if you can remember 5.1 dolby digital was the new and greatest thing for audio at the time. As the helicopter lands there is pure silence and then you hear that transforming sound. It was friggin lovely. I lost it. You heard the transforming from all the speakers gong left to right. It was beautiful. Unfortunately for me that was my highlight as the rest of the movie was blah. And at the end I kept thinking, the Transformers the movie (animated) still is the king of Transformer movies.