Umm, Wesyeed, something to keep in mind regarding how much is cut out. You've gotta pick and choose a bit, only cutting the worst stuff. If you cut every single thing that annoys you, the already somewhat sketchy plot completely disintegrates into a total mess. You need a framework that holds it together, even if you don't like all of it. The glasses and the allspark were goofy, I agree. But you cut that out, you lose all the motivation for any interaction between the people and the Transformers. Allying with people is a WEAKNESS for the Transformers, as they require protection and sacrifice in order to keep them alive. The glasses and the Allspark provide at least some motivation for doing so. The cartoon was retarded in the sense that there was no freakin point for the robots to work with people, yet they did so. This motivation was never a problem because the cartoon was targeted at 7 year olds. But, motivations must be dealt with in the movie. They way they were handled was stupid, but they need to stay.

And while the eBay stuff was certainly intentional name-dropping, it's at least plausible. It's integral to the plot. It allows the robots to find the person of interest, and that leads to the motivation for people and robots to work together.

Otherwise, its just a random case of robots crashing on earth, the good robots ally with a couple of teenagers and in so doing, further imperil their standing in a several thousand year old war, good robots conquer bad robots, the end. It's even more immature and screwed up than it is WITH the problematic elements.