Yeah, I wouldn't classify ROTF as "evil" at all - I like it! Sure, it's not the best movie ever, but I'm heavily biased, so that's okay. And yeah, the movie pretty much lived up to what I was expecting from it!

And like it or not, you can't deny the incredible strength it has bolstered for the Transformers franchise. Compare the social profile Transformers had before and after the movies. I've been a TF fan/collector since 1984 and I can _not_ remember TFs ever being so mainstream before (not saying that it's completely mainstream, but it's the closest I remember seeing).