I enjoyed the original cartoon, but didn't keep up with it too much, I guess I was too young at the time. I didn't know much of the lore or exactly WHAT was going on at any given time, but vehicles that turned into robot was pretty much all I needed to know.

I liked the first one, I wasn't expecting anything more really - I wasn't a big fan of some of the corny 'slower' scenes (the backyard hide and seek, for instance), but overall I thought it was good. I'll be catching the second one soon, and if it's more of the same, that's no problem.