I cant actually remember a time where I hadn't seen the movie its like star wars its has just always been there, but in saying that The Transformers movie still remains as one of my top favourite movies. I have watched it countless time and will still continue to watch it.
I had just recently finished watching season 2 of transformers so then naturally the movie was next. One thing I did find was at the beginning of the movie was that the Decepticons were all characters that we knew from the first 2 seasons so I already had some attatchment to them, even though further one they get rebuilt into new decepticons but at least they had a bit of an origin on why these new decepticons were suddenly there.
Whereas with the autobots all the new characters were sort of just shoved in as though they had already been around for ages but as an audience we really have no idea who they were and that sort of bugged me a little. A little more of an introduction would of been nice.
Especially when there were all these other characters from the first two seasons that didnt get used mainly from the second season as nearly everybody from the first season were killed off faster than you can say "transform and roll out" or were "eaten" by Unicron and were never seen until the end of the movie.
And it also seemed a little odd that they used the dinobots and not the arialbots or another group of autobots as the last half of the 2nd season the dinobots are never seen and are sort of forgotten about and all of sudden "there back"
Just a couple of thoughts i had while i was watching the movie. I still love this movie and will never stop doing so.