I honestly didn't have a problem with Galvatron's transformation in the movie. It makes sense given the context that he's some kind of smart metal and shit.
What I did have a problem with was how everyone looked. They all looked like garbage. Detailed faces through large lips and an overabundance of folds and joint cuts look like shit and everyone suffered for it (Except Hound, I guess, since his "Rough and grizzled" look fit it). The robot modes went for a more smooth looking design, and as a result, they all looked nothing like what they transformed into (Sans Bee), and they just didn't do a good job in designing the bots overall.

Dinobots suffered from a lack of color, especially.

As for RID Grimlock, I love the guy. He's so silly but super vital to the team. I love when he's on screen.

I love the old-school G1/2 Transformers because they didn't look like they changed into what they did. That was the glory of it. Truly Robots in disguise. The newer movies were cool in the sense that did make them look like they actually transformed. They weren't seamless, they were rough and showed what was supposed to be exposed. But G1/2 was so smooth and awesome, I'll never get over them.

What G1 were you looking at :confused:

Well, they did look like what they changed into. I'm thinking of the wrong words here. They had a different aesthetic compared to todays.

weird thing is i prefered the new tmnt movie over AOE

I want to agree, but Transformium and splitting into freaking blocks to transform still ruins him entirely for me. The fact that they did that at all just bothers me. It's cheap from a writing and design standpoint, because now the robots don't have to resemble any sort of alternate form at all. His first appearance and when he talked, though... Great.

Optimus Prime being a murderous psychopath? Not great.

Dinobots having no character, just appearing for a single fight, just haphazardly being let loose in China after said fight, and ultimately not really mattering? Even less great.

Transformers being widespread public knowledge with the Autobots being public figures so surely everyone could know who they are... yet still incompetent scientists believed they were melting Decepticons and never questioned the numbers the mercs were pulling in "by themselves"... Ugh. Less important but still annoying.

It's not that weird, TMNT is a much better film.

I haven't TMNT yet either..... >__>

My favorite aspect of aspect of RID2 Grimlock's design is him being Green.

Because the last RID Grimlock was green. And that's nifty.

The toy is Black and Green....Guess what I'll be going to buy sometime in the near future... >__>